A state school teacher is riled by parents who think going to a comprehensive for A-levels will tick the diversity box
69 percent of students from non-private schoolsRobin*, 42, who teaches A-Level maths in an outstanding-rated state school in Hertfordshire, talks about the recent increase in parents moving their children from private to state school at the age of 16, and whether it’s true that this move would give a pupil a better chance at getting into a top university.children coming to us for sixth form.
This isn’t something they tend to admit, though, and I’m not surprised they might be embarrassed to say it. It’s not only cynical, it’s based on a myth. This idea that Oxbridge will look more favourably on you if you went to a state sixth form is not a new one – I believe it comes from the fact thatwere, a few years ago, given the shared responsibility of getting a certain percentage of state school kids into their college.
Moving your child to a sixth form comprehensive, when you’ve sent them to a private school until then, is not a genuine trick that works. Admissions panels are smarter than that. The pupils of ours who have gone to Oxbridge are students who I think would have done so whether they’d been privately educated or not, because they have a genuine passion for their subject, and we’ve taught them well, and helped them to know that Oxbridge is not somewhere only private school children can go.
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