@KentEduNetwork

Kent Education Network is a community campaign group championing equal & excellent education with no 11+ divide.

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Joined March 2016
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The 11+ test is unfair and stressful for children. It limits opportunity and stifles ambition based on a single exam. Isn't it time to end the outdated selective school system? #timesupforthetest
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Kent County Council are running a consultation on 'the future of education' in the county. They want a school system that's child-centred, supports equality of opportunity, inclusive, evidence led... Yet not once do they mention the 11+. Isn't dropping this test the answer?🤔
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Support TUFTT and want to get actively involved in our campaign? There's a Zoom supporter meeting tonight at 6.30pm. Sign up for TUFTT news at our website and we'll keep you in the loop about all our campaign plans. timesupforthetest.org/

Time's Up For The Test

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Have you got what it takes to pass the 11+? Try our version of the test. It's a whole lot more meaningful than the real version. 😀 take.quiz-maker.com/QBRB7HYK…

Not the 11+

Have YOU got what it takes to get into a grammar school? There are still 163 grammar schools scattered all over England. Kent, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire are selective counties, and most...

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If you live in an area with grammar schools we'd love your help publicising our campaign. We can send you flyers to give to your friends, pin to noticeboards or share with your groups. Just DM or contact us at timesupforthetest.org/
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Thanks to everyone who joined us in Canterbury today to help promote our campaign. It was great to talk to so many new supporters who think the 11+ needs to go. #timesupforthetest
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TUFTT supporters are meeting in Canterbury on October 5th at 11.30am. Want to join us and learn more about our campaign? Sign up at timesupforthetest.org/ and we'll send you details.
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“The 11-plus test is used to decide the schooling of some 100,000 children a year and yet it remains unregulated. The Department for Education provides no guidance on its use and carries out no checks on its implementation." theguardian.com/education/20…

Grammar schools in England must publish details on entry tests, tribunal rules

Campaigners say data will give greater oversight on 11-plus admissions exams and expose them to scrutiny

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A new study by @suttontrust shows the local authorities with the worst social segregation in secondary schools are in selective areas. Trafford tops the list, with Southend, Bexley, Wirral, Kent and Bucks also listed in the top 10 most segregated areas. comprehensivefuture.org.uk/t…

The Sutton Trust's study of social segregation in schools – Comprehensive Future

The Sutton Trust’s new project ‘Social Selection on the Map‘ is an interesting study reviewing the socio-economic profile of secondary school intakes ... Read more

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Right now children around the country are sitting 11+ exams. While children in most of the country do well and move schools without any stressful test. How are you feeling in your house? #11plus
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Grammar schools and their traditional values...🙄 “Pupils separated into single-sex classes are sometimes taught the curriculum in different ways depending on their sex... girls must perform in an annual dance competition and boys do not have to.”kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news…

Grammar gets worst possible Ofsted rating over single-sex lessons ‘discrimination’

A grammar school has been rated “inadequate” after its policy of teaching pupils in single-sex lessons was deemed to be "unlawful discrimination”.

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It’s absolutely wrong. I don’t know one parent who supports it but if you don’t put your child forward, you’re effectively telling them you don’t believe in them, and if you do, you’re often setting them up to “fail”. Most places do without it, Kent should too.
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If you think the Kent Test is wrong please join our campaign. We've gathered a group in Kent, meeting next on Oct 5th in Canterbury. We can make change happen. Sign up here ->> timesupforthetest.org/

Time's Up For The Test

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KEN@KentEduNetwork12 Sep 2024
In most of the country primary school pupils are heading to school to learn and enjoy time with friends. In Kent today they face a test of english, maths, verbal and non-verbal reasoning. This test will judge them to decide where they can go to school. It's unnecessary and wrong.
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A reminder of the grammar school policies of the last decade. The Conservative's were brave to the point of recklessness with policies to expand academic selection, so couldn't Labour be equally brave and do the right thing, and phase out the 11-plus? comprehensivefuture.org.uk/t…

The scandalous grammar school policies of the last decade – Comprehensive Future

I’ve been involved with CF for around 10 years now, and Margaret Tulloch’s excellent timeline of selective education policy led me to ... Read more

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St Anselm's College, Wirral admits 10% FSM pupils, the nearest non-selective 54% Queen Elizabeth's, Lincolnshire, 8% FSM, nearest non-selective 57% St Olave's, Bromley, 2% FSM, nearest non-selective 48% So much difference between neighbouring schools. comprehensivefuture.org.uk/s…

Stark inequality in selective areas discovered by Comprehensive Future study comparing grammar...

Comprehensive Future has updated its interactive map of grammar schools with new information obtained through a Freedom of Information request to the ... Read more

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"Grammar schools remain socially selective schools with their pupils more likely to come from affluent families with degree educated parents... The whole concept of grammar schools is flawed. Selective education discriminates against poorer families.”comprehensivefuture.org.uk/s…

Stark inequality in selective areas discovered by Comprehensive Future study comparing grammar...

Comprehensive Future has updated its interactive map of grammar schools with new information obtained through a Freedom of Information request to the ... Read more

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Please help our friends in Northern Ireland by signing this petition. They're fighting to end the transfer test / 11+ which has a huge impact on children in the region. change.org/p/eleven-plus-tra…?

Sign the Petition

Eleven Plus - transfer test in Northern Ireland

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.@SmithCarl19530 urges the new Labour government to phase out grammar schools. "It would be a straightforward process, one most areas concluded decades ago. Most of the country would not even notice and it would cost next to nothing." schoolsweek.co.uk/the-labour…

Labour should phase out grammar schools in this parliament

It's an unfinished revolution that will only continue to entrench inequality as long as it persists

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"Creaming off of the wealthiest children to private schools, creaming off the most academic children to grammar schools, and what you are left with is no longer a comprehensive school." Excellent PM interview with parents in Cranbrook, Kent. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zv… (at 32 mins)
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If you are in Canterbury on 13 June I’ll be giving a lecture on the Great Teacher Supply Crisis with a special focus on the impact of this for coastal and rural schools. canterbury.ac.uk/events/2024… @marjonuni @CanterburyCCUni @KentEduNetwork @Kent_cc #PlaceMatters @UCET_UK @NASBTT
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