Poor-rich gap widening in UK schools

April 5th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The head of the UK’s Association of Teachers and Lecturers union warned that how the government’s stratified schools left deprived children failing to learn important qualities such as aspiration and effort from their richer classmates.

Mary Bousted, in her speech at the union’s annual conference in Manchester, also warned that the gap between rich and poor in schools was becoming wider.

Bousted said it was the coalition’s “dirty little secret” that their education cuts and reforms were making the lives of the poorest children tougher.

“We have schools for the elite, schools for the middle class and schools for the working class. Too few schools have mixed intakes where children can learn those intangible life skills of aspiration, effort and persistence from one another”, she said.

“The effect of unbalanced school intakes is toxic for the poorest and most dispossessed”, Bousted added.

“I am going to argue that the Secretary of State for Education and his ministers and his handpicked Ofsted chief inspector are pulling a con trick”, she noted.

“They are seeking to wash their hands of all the causes of educational failure over which they have more control than anyone else,” Bousted said.

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