Saturday, 4 September 2010

Poverty affects results shocker!

This is an extract from an article in the guardian:


"A child's social class is more likely to determine how well they perform in school if they are white than if they come from an ethnic minority, researchers have discovered.
The gap between the proportion of working-class pupils and middle-class pupils who achieve five A* to C grades at GCSE is largest among white pupils, academics found."
I love the 'researchers have discovered' and 'academics found' bits.
We have to deal with the barriers that social class, poverty and lack of aspiration cause or our children will never be able to fulfil their true potential.

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