Students at a Liverpool academy are being 'punished for being smart', it has been claimed.
Pupils in the top two sets in year nine at the all boys West Derby School are being enrolled into the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) scheme as they prepare for their GCSE studies. As part of this, parents are concerned that their children are not getting to make choices to suit their own future.
The EBacc programme requires the studying of subjects including English, Maths, Science, history or geography, plus a modern foreign language. It was introduced by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in 2010.
