ABSTRACT
This chapter is an administrator's account of some of the organizational issues arising from the introduction of comprehensive secondary education. It attempts also to reflect briefly on the negative impact of parental choice on the comprehensive ideal, especially in urban areas, where it will be argued that there has been, and will continue to be, a different and much more difficult comprehensive tradition than has been the case in rural areas. It combined the necessary replacement of all-age schools with a population expansion by focusing on market town grammar schools which were turned into comprehensive schools. The ready availability of IT with all that implies, the growth of social exclusion, especially in cities, the greater but still, of course, very limited knowledge the people now have of human intelligence, suggest different answers.
