“Elliot Major says lessons should celebrate working-class achievement and feature figures such as Stormzy”
Why not just celebrate lottery winners then? For every stormzy there is a thousand failed stormzys stacking shelves in Tesco. Rather my kid be encourage to become middle class than a lottery winner.
> “The problem with terming a child as ‘disadvantaged’ is that it is a binary classification, leading to a crude demarcation between who is or who is not ‘advantaged’.
No it isn’t, the vast majority will be in the middle normal between those two extremes.
One of the major factors seems to be family stability and the expectations friends and family have. If you’ve parents who support you school then you’re more likely to do better than if they don’t nurture you.
When I was at school I’m fairly certain it was a conscious bias that teachers didn’t give a shit about kids who they knew wouldn’t do well on their own.
I saw plenty of kids experience disdain from the people who are supposed to be educating them, things ranging from common ridicule of “you’ll never amount to anything” to active destruction of projects such as artwork or woodwork projects when kids acted up.
Being a teacher is by no means an easy job I’m sure however I think what is often forgotten is that it’s their job to not only educate but inspire and encourage those who are less academic to aspire to something not just focus on the ones they know will give them the grade numbers they need to make their yearly quota.
any media outlet calling out structural disparities along lines of class, sex, race etc. will be widely panned by bigots online
“Elliot Major says lessons should celebrate working-class achievement and feature figures such as Stormzy”
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Or, why not celebrate realistic working class scenarios–the local guy who started from the bottom and now pulls in over 100k a year with his cleanign firm, or the guy who opened a restaurant and now has a small chain.
Not give kids unrealistic expectations.
No shit there is bias, should see some of the comments here the few times working class boys doing the worst at school and being the least likely to go to uni is brought up
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“Elliot Major says lessons should celebrate working-class achievement and feature figures such as Stormzy”
Why not just celebrate lottery winners then? For every stormzy there is a thousand failed stormzys stacking shelves in Tesco. Rather my kid be encourage to become middle class than a lottery winner.
> “The problem with terming a child as ‘disadvantaged’ is that it is a binary classification, leading to a crude demarcation between who is or who is not ‘advantaged’.
No it isn’t, the vast majority will be in the middle normal between those two extremes.
One of the major factors seems to be family stability and the expectations friends and family have. If you’ve parents who support you school then you’re more likely to do better than if they don’t nurture you.
When I was at school I’m fairly certain it was a conscious bias that teachers didn’t give a shit about kids who they knew wouldn’t do well on their own.
I saw plenty of kids experience disdain from the people who are supposed to be educating them, things ranging from common ridicule of “you’ll never amount to anything” to active destruction of projects such as artwork or woodwork projects when kids acted up.
Being a teacher is by no means an easy job I’m sure however I think what is often forgotten is that it’s their job to not only educate but inspire and encourage those who are less academic to aspire to something not just focus on the ones they know will give them the grade numbers they need to make their yearly quota.
any media outlet calling out structural disparities along lines of class, sex, race etc. will be widely panned by bigots online
“Elliot Major says lessons should celebrate working-class achievement and feature figures such as Stormzy”
​
Or, why not celebrate realistic working class scenarios–the local guy who started from the bottom and now pulls in over 100k a year with his cleanign firm, or the guy who opened a restaurant and now has a small chain.
Not give kids unrealistic expectations.
No shit there is bias, should see some of the comments here the few times working class boys doing the worst at school and being the least likely to go to uni is brought up