House of Lords report on secondary education is well-intentioned but wrong | Letter

The reason why most pupils in fee-paying schools do well is because they have access to resources, says Michael Young Of course the Lords are right in recognising that "one size doesn't fit all" for the secondary curriculum. However, such generalisations easily mask as much as they reveal. We have a divided and unequal education system in which, as your editorial (12 December) pointed out, a third of pupils in England do not obtain a pass in maths and English and, one could add, often give up a ...