grammar schools and the select-22 committee

Protect our endangered rich

With the quick fix

Penalise the poor

Let no election promise

Be a palliative or cure

For elective rhetoric

Take a point of the bell curve

Single-mum, family

Stand by your prediction

Shout down prejudices

The world is complicated

Wait and see

Spend decades deriding

Media front pages deciding

‘Least-able’ is a sham

Evidence of our country’s shame

Ritalin children of today

Called thick in that old-fashioned way

Simple fools with no rapport

Couched in the language

Action, explanation and necessity

How things were set out- long ago

Select children of the few

Hothouse our future leaders

Let them make the harsh decision

For our own good

That’s understood

The good of the few

Answer honestly – does that apply to you?