If their child passes they can opt for the local grammar, if not they can say they really want the best comprehensive school in the area.
The neighbourhood comprehensive school was not just the guarantor of a fair allocation of educational resources and opportunities, but the bedrock of a more egalitarian society.
Rippon was born in Henley-on-Thames where he attended comprehensive the Gillotts School.
The former Blackwood Comprehensive School pupil, dubbed Nathan "Clever Boy" Cleverly, is coping well with combining his training schedule and the demands of statistics, equations and algebra.
The former pupil of Pontarddulais Comprehensive School provided a third catch for wicket-keeper Mark Wallace by finding the edge of Will Rudge's bat for his seventh wicket.
The condition of roads in Aberdare led to Blaengwawr Comprehensive School being closed for the day.
Economists billed the study as the first comprehensive look at the recession's effects on school funding in New Jersey and New York.
The Austrian school theories, on the other hand, are much more comprehensive and can be applied to virtually any time in history.
Developed by UNEP with the education expertise of UNESCO, this kit gives primary school teachers a simple yet comprehensive teaching tool to facilitate the inclusion of human and environmental issues linked to ozone reduction within the teaching curricula.
Tony Knight, chairman of the trustees, said they were "taking comprehensive and immediate action to ensure that safeguarding needs at the school are properly met".
They touted the package as a comprehensive response to Newtown that also addresses mental health and school security measures, including the creation of a new council to establish school safety standards and the expansion of circumstances when someone's mental history disqualifies him or her from obtaining a gun permit or other gun credentials.
They touted the package as a comprehensive response to Newtown that also addresses mental health and school-security measures, including the creation of a new council to establish school-safety standards and the expansion of circumstances when someone's mental-health history disqualifies him or her from obtaining a gun permit or other gun credentials.
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At Willows Comprehensive School in Cardiff, part of the students' personal and social education (PSE) programme looks at healthy eating.
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Michael Moritz, 58, went to an "ordinary comprehensive, " the now-closed Howardian High School in the Penylan area of Cardiff, and he was the only pupil in his year to go to Oxford.
At a staffroom of a typical inner-London comprehensive school, teachers recently interviewed by The Economist agreed that the only way in which a young classroom teacher could afford to own property was to have a well-paid spouse or partner.
At the other end of the table nationally was another County Durham school - Ferryhill Comprehensive.
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On Monday police announced a "comprehensive review" into alleged sex offences at the school and the way they were investigated.
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In February, Sarika enrolled at Mountain Ash Comprehensive School, which allows her to wear the Kara, pending the outcome of her court challenge.
Mr Blair pointedly ignored party policy and his local comprehensive and chose the Oratory an opt-out school many miles from his home.
Peter Morris, a teacher from Bishop Gore Comprehensive School in Swansea, spoke of "pupils fighting in the classroom, throwing computer monitors around the room".
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The FPA says research shows young people who receive a comprehensive sex education at school are less likely to have under age sex and more likely to use contraception.
Although he feels that if Ripon's education system were being designed from scratch today, then a comprehensive school might well be a viable option, for him the Grammar School should remain as it is.
That notion was a key factor in the Laura Spence affair, he said - when Oxford was accused by the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, of being elitist after Laura, a comprehensive school pupil, failed to get a place to study medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Just last month, researchers led by Armin Arbab-Zadeh of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore published a comprehensive review of the biology of heart attacks in the journal Circulation, which said that vulnerable plaques often rupture without causing a heart attack and that a "perfect storm" of other conditions is required before one occurs.
It is due to such a comprehensive primary schooling system that the Net Enrolment Rate (NER) for primary school in Indonesia reached 95.41 per cent in 2011.
He wants them to understand that as the son of Jewish immigrants and someone who went to the local comprehensive he was not born to rule, did not go to public school and wants to be prime minister because of his values and beliefs rather than because, as David Cameron once said of himself, "he'd be good at it".
Boyle, who was accused of dumbing down Radio 4, attended a comprehensive school in Glasgow before gaining a first class degree in English at the University of Strathclyde, and then completing an MA on Charles Dickens.
A-level performance of pupils on the Assisted Places scheme (which, until it was ended in 1997, funded education at public school for some state pupils) with the results of their counterparts at comprehensive schools.
If the six brightest pupils were whisked away from the comprehensive where I am a pupil, Benton Park in Leeds, there would be no school newspaper, no debating society, no Oxbridge entrance and no history society.
School clinics will also be held at all comprehensive schools in Powys, while the Vale of Glamorgan council is asking schools to help the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board organise sessions.
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