I cried yes, I would like to see all private schools and grammar schools closed down, and then told the man that sorry, the conversation would have to end, as I wanted to dance to Dusty Springfield. We had been arguing for what felt like half an hour. It had started off on another topic, […]
Posts Tagged ‘Social Mobility’
Ofsted chief exposes grammar school myths, but most are happy with nostalgia
Dec 17th, 2013 by Conrad Landin.
Cracking open the middle class closed shop
Mar 7th, 2011 by Owen Jones.I thought there was a really good debate after my post on social mobility. There were a few, though, who objected. Their concern was that I was basically arguing in favour of kicking the ladder beneath me, or even of reinforcing the class system. In that case I probably didn’t explain my argument properly – because […]
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Social mobility is a dead end
Mar 2nd, 2011 by Owen Jones.I am a walking indictment of Britain’s class system. Because I was a middle-class kid who attended a primary school “located in an area of high economic deprivation in Stockport”, as Ofsted put it, I was uncomfortably aware of this from an early age. Without inflicting my life story on you, my mother was a […]
