{"id":985,"date":"2007-09-24T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2007\/09\/24\/ban-private-schools\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T09:48:00","slug":"ban-private-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2007\/09\/24\/ban-private-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban private schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps its time to revisit the debate on <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlaw.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/ban%20private%20schools\">banning private schools<\/a>. To get things started, <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,,2175057,00.html\">here&#8217;<\/a>s an article by Will Hutton in yesterdays Observer.<\/p>\n<p>Hutton cites new research by the Sutton Trust revealing a third of all admission to Oxbridge came from 100 schools, all but two of which are private.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the top private schools did massively better than their exam results should predict.<\/p>\n<p>This social stratification is now hardening.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Hutton is not recommending banning private schools. But I am&#8230; if you want to know why scroll down <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlaw.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/ban%20private%20schools\">banning private schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps its time to revisit the debate on banning private schools. To get things started, here&#8217;s an article by Will Hutton in yesterdays Observer. Hutton cites new research by the Sutton Trust revealing a third of all admission to Oxbridge came from 100 schools, all but two of which are private. In particular, the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ban-private-schools","category-private-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}