Why is no one talking about Disability? An investigation into Grammar Schools and Disabling Barriers for Dyslexic Pupils.

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The UK Grammar School System habitually produces winners and losers and lowsocioeconomic pupils are disproportionately concentrated within the 'losers'. Existingresearch highlights the structural inequalities and disadvantage experienced by lowsocioeconomic pupils in such selective education systems. Resultantly there is asignificant underrepresentation of Free School Meal eligible pupils in GrammarSchools. Such research debunks the historic guise of the Grammar School Systemenabling upward social mobility for academically oriented working-class pupils. Asimilarly stark underrepresentation of Special Educational Needs pupils exists inGrammar Schools, yet Grammar School research has predominantly remained firmlywithin the parameters of social-class and ignored disability.This original research proposes a collaborative mixed-methodology investigation withthe British Dyslexia Association into where dyslexic pupils fall in the Grammar Schoolwinner/loser dichotomy. Quantitative secondary statistical analysis of NationalGovernment datasets and two-sets of qualitative semi-structured interviews, withdyslexic pupils (aged 16) and 11+/Grammar School stakeholders, are proposed. Thisresearch has significant educational policy implications as it will: i) highlight potentialdisabling barriers experienced by dyslexic pupils, resulting in their Grammar Schoolunderrepresentation, ii) determine whether the 11+ is inherently discriminatory fordyslexic pupils, and iii) explore dyslexic pupils' lived experiences of Grammar Schoolsand Secondary Moderns, in comparison to non-selective Comprehensive Schools.Additionally, this research will consider the intersectionality of disability and social class, to explore the multi-faceted nature of barriers faced by low socioeconomicdyslexic pupils in selective education systems. Crucially, as a dyslexic individual, thisresearch will meaningfully contribute to the social model of disability