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Poor parenting is at the root of our failing schools

30 April 2022

9:00 AM

30 April 2022

9:00 AM

No Excuses: Turning Around One of Britain’s Toughest Schools Alison Colwell

Biteback, pp.244, 16.99

When it comes to education, I’m in two minds, maybe three. I was sent to private schools, including, for my ‘Oxbridge’ term, Eton, where the teaching was life-changing. But when it came to my children, no amount of cheeseparing was going to make private fees possible. From the age of three to 18, they went to our local state schools.

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