The move away from selection aimed to reduce divided school routes.
Comprehensive education grew as an alternative to selective schooling. The aim was to educate children together rather than sorting them into different school types by test performance.
This mattered because selection had shaped opportunity, class mobility and identity. Comprehensive schooling tried to create a broader common route.
Awareverse sees the deeper issue as still alive today: how do we stop systems sorting children too early, too narrowly and too confidently?
A common mistake is treating comprehensive education as only a political argument. It is also a question about childhood, fairness and timing.
Who had power here, who was left outside, and what would have changed if the human being was seen first?
These deep dives open out from this part of the timeline.