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They are certainly not a myth but the way I see it is from an odds perspective.

There are a million different factors that can effect your kids learning some of which are related to the school and some aren't.

It's not impossible for someone who goes to a school low in the exam tables to do well, but the odds are stacked against them due to things like funding for the school and poverty/crime/societal issues in the local area.
In that same vein just because you send your bairn to Jordanhill doesn't automatically mean they'll do well, but it does increase their odds of doing well astronomically.

I think you'd be naive to think it's a myth and that the exam tables don't mean anything but it's not the be all and end all, especially if they're willing to work hard regardless of what school they go to.

I went to a school dead bottom of the league tables for 4 years in a row. I managed to do well in my highers and go to uni and I make a decent living now. But I can count on one hand the amount of folk in my year who did the same. I genuinely think about 4 people did 5 highers in my year at school and I maybe know 1 or 2 people I went to school with who do well now.

With that said my Mrs went to a very posh west end school and had every opportunity in the world and she's now working in a call centre.

No judgement or classism is meant by this post, I grew up as skint as they come, I'm just saying it is what you make it really.