m ▪ uch "1 - ulle many public schools would welcome a
closer relationship with the State schools, it is schools no means as certain as you suggest that the public schools should bring their age of entry into line With the State's. Not a few of those teaching in and administering the State schools would agree that thirteen en is a better age for a child to move on to secondary education than eleven-plus. There are indeed signs that some local education authorities would like to delay the move to twelve-plus, and it might well be that public and State schools would uosbest to compromise on this, uecon n
--Y, yen are too severe on the preparatory ools. di
While it is true that some are scandalous and others merely inefficient, a great many are well- run and up-to-date, and provide an education for the nine-to-eleven age group incomparably superior to any provided by the State. This is one very real diffi- culty that needs to be overcome before parents who at present spend upwards of £300 per annum on a boy's prep-school education are likely to be per- suaded to send their children to a primary school for these years.. If the primary schools could fill this two-year gap • adequately, most preparatory schools would soon wither away.
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