Thank you
For supporting my point, which is that the higher grades received do not reflect greater innate ability.

Incidentally, there is a lot of duff teaching in private schools, particularly the third rate ones with no great academic aspirations. That's where the weak teachers who can't control classes in the state sector end up.
(ubergeekian, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 14:37, 4 replies)

Yes,
Public Schools aren't subjected to OFSTED, so they can harbour some right incompetents.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 16:00, closed)

I would agree with
"higher grades received do not always reflect greater innate ability."
( DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 16:28, closed)

Oh I don't know.
Higher grades do reflect some kind of ability, even if it is only an ability to pass exams, or your parents' ability to choose and pay for a good private tutor.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 30 Jan 2013, 20:31, closed)

For many years (certainly, to my knowledge, into the 1990s)...
...public schools did not require teachers to have obtained a PGCE or to have any relevant teaching experience. A couple of years of TEFL in Zimbabwe gave me possible the worst biology and physics teacher ever to walk the cloisters.

I would have done better if I'd gone to the local comp with my mates rather than gone along with my dad's fantasies of social mobility (they had a higher Oxbridge entrance rate for my age group than my school did) but I was a good little boy who knew no different.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 31 Jan 2013, 16:17, closed)