Letter to the Review Body on Post Primary Education

... Letter to the Review Body on Post Primary Education 22 Bodoney Road, Trillick, Co Tyrone. BT78 3SQ 18 March 2001 Review Body on Post Primary Education, Enterprise House, 3rd Floor, 55-59 Adelaide Street, Belfast. BT2 8FE Dear Sir, For many years, the 'eleven plus' served students in Northern Ireland exceptionally well, with minimal fuss as to whether or not it should be replaced by a more appropriate system. However, as soon as fundamental flaws in the English comprehensive schooling system began to come to light, with major politicians admitting to the vast number of the population whose potential has not been realised as a direct result of these, the Province's proletariat decided that if England was entitled to an educational crisis, then so were they. In an age where human rights are of paramount importance, and in a country where the population as a whole is more than usually well informed as regards the impingements

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