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Not quite. Comprehensive (non-selective) schools are the norm and have been for many years. Grammar schools only remain in very few areas, where the local authority has chosen to keep them. For the majority of the country, there isn't a local grammar school.



You are right. I should have written "Part of the UK system". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grammar_schools_in_Engl.... But the point remains.




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