If you’re *genuinely* angry about how few working class kids get into top universities & top professions, as I am, then you should support the expansion of grammar schools so poorer kids can get the high quality academic education they need to get into those institutions.
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Otherwise, you’re just a class warfare bullsh*tter who doesn’t really want to do anything to help those kids. You’d rather keep them “in their place” so you can keep complaining about The System. Why not change that system instead?
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Replying to @JuliaHB1
Why not have all schools good? What about kids who get into grammar school through private tuition to pass the tests? What about the average vocabulary between two 6 year olds from a poor and rich background?
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All children from all backgrounds benefit from good parenting. Unless you send the “talk to your child & read to them at bedtime” police into people’s homes every day, those differences will always exist.
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Replying to @JuliaHB1
I went to a grammar school, and there is definitely a case of some children benefit from parenting, some benefit from tuition, some have the natural talent in my experience. I just think there are better ways of social mobility than essentially a logic test at 10 years of age.
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There are. Plenty of other ways to test. And can do so at many different ages.
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