Sunday, March 22, 2015

Can we all learn to be fashionably impoverished.


It is documented. The Poor of Great Britain are disregarded and forgotten. 

22 March 2015
By Sarah Cassidy

Children from poor (click here) backgrounds are still being written off as low achievers by their teachers because of the “soft bigotry of low expectations”, the Education Secretary Nicky Morgan warned yesterday.

More needed to be done to ensure that no child was held back by their circumstances, Ms Morgan told the annual conference of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) in London.
Low educational performance in some coastal areas and small towns in England was “a scandal”, she added, citing the bigotry phrase first coined by the former US President George W Bush.
Almost three quarters of teenagers in Trafford, in Greater Manchester, achieved five good GCSE passes including English and maths, but “just a 30-minute drive away” in Knowsley “the number is less than half of that at 35 per cent”, she said...