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Why shouldn’t schools encourage middle class aspirations?

21 November 2024

10:17 PM

21 November 2024

10:17 PM

Education Minister Bridget Phillipson wants to make our schools engines of ambition and social mobility. Good for her. Unfortunately, some of the the advice she has received as to how to do this demonstrates one thing more than anything else: when it comes to class prejudice, it’s earnest bourgeois reformers who habitually head the pack.

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