For decades we have been told that streaming or setting (the grouping of children of similar ability in one class) was ineffective, damaging or even, in words that have peppered academic commentary, “symbolic violence” against less-able children.

For decades we have been told that streaming or setting (the grouping of children of similar ability in one class) was ineffective, damaging or even, in words that have peppered academic commentary, “symbolic violence” against less-able children.