Something a bit related I always thought was a bit of a conspiracy to keep out lower class people, was the entrance test for eleven year old children
at my local grammar school. The test had many questions that were highly biased, I forgot the exact ones now, but they were things like:
A chukka is a time period in which sport?
Complete: Veni, Vidi, ?
Things that most eleven year old children at government schools would have no clue about, as they don't teach classics/latin or Polo in those
schools.
I always thought that pure maths/logic, and reading comprehension would have been better things to test on.
It was kind of a catch-22 situation. I needed to go to an elite school to learn these things, but couldn't get into an elite school unless I knew
them.


