Not mentioning grammar schools

This is an interesting little report:

The report, by the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions, found that the professions had in general become more socially exclusive.

Bright children from middle income families, not just those from the poorest backgrounds, were missing out on a professional career, it found.

Really?

While just seven per cent of the population attend fee-paying schools, a majority of people working in law, finance and the upper echelons of the media were educated privately, it found.

Three-quarters of judges and 70 per cent of finance directors were independently schooled, as were 45 per cent of senior civil servants and 32 per cent of MPs, the researchers found.

I wonder if there might be a cause for this?

We used to have an education system which took the academically bright, from whatever background, and then gave them the sort of academic education they would need to be able to go on and succeed in those professions.

Now we don’t have such a system. I wonder if that could be the cause?

You know, the abolition of the grammar schools?