I attended a standard comprehensive school. We sent our four children to a comprehensive school too, choosing a non-selective state comprehensive in the belief that they would get a better general education than anywhere else. Our view is not shared by everyone, for there are private schools and all manner of selective schools in the state sector. There’s much talk of equal opportunities, but schooling is the elephant in the room of inhibiting social mobility. If everyone attended the same local school, wouldn’t the whole of society have a vested interest in making it work? Wouldn’t common schooling foster …