City Secondaries X- Second Best ? ; Only About Half of All Bristol Pupils Go On to a City Council-Run State Secondary School When They Reach the Age of 11, Government Figures Reveal. Education Correspondent Linda Tanner Finds Out Why so Many Families Still Opt for Independent Schools or Comprehensives in Neighbouring Local Authorities.

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Only about half of all Bristol pupils go on to a city council- run state secondary school when they reach the age of 11, Government figures reveal. Education correspondent LINDA TANNER finds out why so many families still opt for independent schools or comprehensives in neighbouring local authorities.

Friendships broken, quarrels in the playground, doubts and uncertainty ... and that's just the parents.

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City Secondaries X- Second Best ? ; Only About Half of All Bristol Pupils Go On to a City Council-Run State Secondary School When They Reach the Age of 11, Government Figures Reveal. Education Correspondent Linda Tanner Finds Out Why so Many Families Still Opt for Independent Schools or Comprehensives in Neighbouring Local Authorities.

Selecting a secondary school can cause tensions that blight a family's life throughout the final year of primary education.

This has been the case for decades, since Margaret Thatcher introduced the concept of "parental choice".

The situation is particularly fraught in Bristol, where there is an unusually high proportion of fee-paying schools and an overall record ...

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