Rejected petition Entry into grammar schools should be based solely on a child's ability and their performance in the entrance examination

Entry into Grammar school should be purely on merit and living within a priority area should not be a criteria for admission. All grammar schools in the UK are selective secondary schools and require a child to sit and pass an entrance examination. Some grammar schools have introduced a new criteria of giving considerable and undue advantage to children that live within a priority area to the school. This is a stealth way of discriminating against children from a less privileged background, whose parents might not be able to afford a property within the priority area of set by the grammar school. If a child has to prepare for an exam, then it is only fair that the child should be assessed fairly against every other child that sat for the exam

I want the government to declare that that it is unfair for selective grammar schools to discriminate against children because they do not live within a priority area, and the grammar schools should stop this practice with immediate effect.