Its pretty common world wide and has been so for ever. Even in My grandfathers day (Head teacher in WW2 era) all the poor kids left school at 14. And only a f

Its pretty common world wide and has been so for ever. Even in My grandfathers day (Head teacher in WW2 era) all the poor kids left school at 14. And only a few smart and lucky kids from better off working class families made it to apprenticeships and the really lucky ones Grammar school. If I had stayed in Birmingham (UK) my mum told me they would have tried to get me into King Edwards and use Granddads Influence to help. BTW this is The King Edwards that Tolkien went to and is normally in the top 3 selective schools in the UK