It just doesn't work that way Martin. If they are not at the specialist school from the word go they loose critical time in that speciality, as you well know.
Not true. Children start to learn musical instruments at different times and reach various standards at different times. Very often a school will have a peripatetic teacher, for instruction in a particular instrument, whose skills will suffice to a certain level. At some stage, dependent on the skills of that teacher, the peripatetic teacher may say that a pupil has attained such a high standard that they have reached the limit of what that teacher can teach them, and this can happen at various ages. So it's at that point that the pupil and her parents, taking advice from the school, might consider transfer to a specialist school where a more intense programme under the instruction of a more highly qualified teacher can be embarked upon.
Furthermore it is far harder to change schools half way through, as the different schools will use different examining boards with different syllabi - the exception to this clearly being at the start of 2-year exam courses.
Frankly though, we are not going to agree about the best way forward so I do not propose to continue with this argument!
Indeed, there are better and worse times to move schools and any move needs to be considered carefully by the parent and the pupil taking advice from the schools. But, as you can see, this is not the same as selecting pupils at the age of 11. It's not rocket science. Perhaps you need to think about it a bit more, but nothing I have suggested is particularly unachievable or unworkable.
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