ABSTRACT
One of the commonest practices in English education is the categorization of children. We still have the ‘grammar-school child’ and the ‘secondary-modern-school child’, we also have the ‘Newsom child’. In a very large number of schools we have A, B, C and D children. We have children who have been ascertained E.S.N. and we have ‘high flyers’. In recent years another group has been identified: the ‘Disadvantaged’. In England most of these children are from the schools of decaying inner ring urban areas, often including disproportionate numbers of children of non-English backgrounds.
