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Letter: Lies, damn lies and statistics
I read with interest the headline in last week's Standard concerning grammar schools in Lincolnshire.
The Giles School Contextual Value Added (CVA) is indeed higher than the High School.
However, an analysis of the underlying qualifications taken may be instructive.
It may well be found that this has been achieved by students taking vocational 'equivalent' qualifications in which two, three or four A-level or GCSEs' worth of points are attained by studying the same subject.
Surely it is more important for students to take qualifications that will see them into any choice of university and be more highly thought of in the employment world.
I always thought that secondary moderns were meant to give the same opportunities to their students that the grammar schools give, and to push students to produce the highest qualification that they can be expected to achieve.
Is Mr Walls then saying that the Giles School pupils are not as intelligent as pupils at the Grammar School? Schools should be achieving the best exam results they can for pupils and not the school itself.
Is this a case of 'lies, damn lies and statistics'?
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