Education Committee urges final decision on future of selection system
Guernsey States are being urged to make a final decision whether to scrap the island's selection system at age 11.
The Committee for Education, Sport & Culture has published a policy letter asking the States for a vote on the issue on the 30th November, in order to start planning for the new system.
The head of the committee, Deputy Paul Le Pelley, says the new Assembly should have the opportunity to support or reject the previous states' decision to get rid of the selection system.
The committee is itself split on the issue, with two members in favour of keeping the Grammar School and three in favour of making the system non-selective in the long term.
One of the recommendations mentioned in the letter is that if the States vote towards a non-selective system, its implementation should be delayed until September 2021.
This, the committee says, would allow enough time to plan for further changes, including those at La Mare de Carteret Schools, to be completed.
The letter also advises that a three-school option under a selective system would not be desirable, since it would "increase inequalities between theGrammar School and two High Schools."