Ball's Schooling
Grammar-hating Ed Balls has a little Eton secret - Times Online
If the grammar school-baiting Ed Balls succeeds in his struggle against selection in education, the class war will have been won – at least in part – on the playing fields of Eton.The schools secretary has revealed that as a child he lived briefly at the Berkshire public school when his father, Michael, taught there in the early 1970s.
He was fiercely opposed to grammar schools, organising the campaign against the 11-plus in Norfolk. This did not stop him later educating his son privately at Nottingham High School.
Balls, despite his privileged education, has gained a reputation for trying to close off attempts by the middle classes to dominate the best schools in the state system.
I hadn't realised that Ed Balls was the product of the private, £9000-a-year Nottingham high school and then Keble College, Oxford, where his dad had also been educated. No wonder he is opposed to any parent trying to improve their child's chances in education by using money, influence or faith - they might turn the child in the obnoxious little creep that he has to face in the mirror every morning.