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The most able pupils, Dormandy says, are stretched with demanding roles, but all are encouraged to go on to university.
Wilshaw also proposed the introduction of sanctions against schools that failed to meet their responsibilities towards their most able pupils.
Other doubts involve how well even improved, modern 11-plus exams can select the most able pupils.
In its most recent report, the watchdog warned that almost two-thirds of the most able pupils in state comprehensives – 57,000 – fail to fulfil their potential.
Wilshaw said schools were not doing enough to challenge their most able pupils, and poor behaviour in class was in some cases making learning impossible.
A failing school could have a high pass rate but still not be stretching the most able pupils, which is why the value-added score is so important.
And when David Kynaston, the historian, pointed out this made the brightest child at a comprehensive equivalent to the 70th most able pupil at Westminster, it unleashed a furious response from various private schools.
"I believe that selection can plug an important gap by catering to the most academically able pupils and raising standards across the board," he says.
Last weekend Mr Blunkett announced that schools with more applicants than places will no longer be allowed to give preference to the most academically able pupils, or to those whose parents share the school's educational and ethical values.
Supporters of private schools argue that they get good results because of superior teaching and management, not simply because they get the most able and privileged pupils.
Most controversially, less able pupils will sit different exams, similar to the old Certificate of Secondary Education.In this section The basket case Five-ring circus Out with the new Housing the "rentysomethings" Chained to trouble Press ganged Divided over Trident A Brixit looms ReprintsMr Gove has good reason to take a sledgehammer to the exam system.
