Sunderland Echo

Bring back this facility

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It really amazes me and makes my blood boil when I hear MPs talking about grammar schools as if they are some kind of stepping stone for posh people and not for hard working people with bright children.

Let me tell Miss Hodgson a story.

I went to Plains Farm Juniors 1956-1960 and was expected to pass my 11 plus, which I, unfortunat­ely, failed but lots of my classmates passed and went on to Bede Grammar where they went right through to university.

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