NDM6094 - Assembly Debates
Tabled on 14/09/2016 | For debate on 14/09/2016To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Acknowledges the important role played by grammar schools in promoting social mobility and giving children from poorer backgrounds access to a first class education.
2. Notes that a reduction in social mobility has gone hand in hand with a cut in grammar school places.
3. Believes in diversity in secondary education, which gives children the right to a grammar school education if parents so desire, and supports enhanced status for technical and vocational education and the re-introduction of grammar schools in Wales to produce an educational system which provides the best opportunities for children of all abilities.
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Amendments
Delete point 1 and replace with:
Is not persuaded that selection in the education system is appropriate for schools in Wales.
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Delete point 2 and replace with:
Believes that extending parental and pupil choice is the best way to improve standards in our schools.
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In point 3, delete:
'which gives children the right to a grammar school education if parents so desire'.
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In point 3, delete:
'and the re-introduction of grammar schools'.
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Add as new point at end of motion:
Regrets that every year in Wales thousands of pupils are turned away from schools that they and their parents prefer because good, successful schools are full.
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Add as new point at end of motion:
Calls upon the Welsh Government to free schools up from local authority control and enable popular schools to expand to enable more pupils to access schools that they and their parents choose.