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  Darren, we should perhaps examine the factors that have reduced equality of opportunity....
  
  The getting rid of selection in many parts of the country. Grammars were a massive boon to the less well off now sadly absent in many parts of the country and now in Dover undermined by 'double selection'.
  
  The dropping of streaming by ability - thankfully sense has crept back and streaming (or the watered down version 'setting') is coming back.
  
  The anti- competition ethos that crept into education. I am not talking just about sport but in academics also. At school I was always aware of how I was doing relative to the rest in my class and worked hard to stay in the top half.
  
  Then, of course, we have the dumbing down of exams.
  
  All of the above were promoted by the left-wing educational establishment and failing to take them on was one of Mrs T's failures.
  
  Thankfully Gove is now going some way to break the grip of the educational establishment with free schools. Equality of opportunity will arise from more choice and parental power.

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