Gli alunni bianchi della classe operaia “scritti” dalla società, ammette Phillipson
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/11/white-working-class-pupils-written-off-phillipson/
di sjw_7
Gli alunni bianchi della classe operaia “scritti” dalla società, ammette Phillipson
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/11/white-working-class-pupils-written-off-phillipson/
di sjw_7
11 commenti
Okay, now do something about it please, like every successive government over the last 30 years has failed to do, no?
Business as usual then.
David Beckham Meme: Be *honest*! Its white working class boys. As long as women control the reproductive monopoly the girls always have an out for 18-20 years. And yes, they do it. A lot of them do it. I used to say how sad it was that in the 2000’s a lot of working class girls still consider their best prospects in life to be having a kid and getting a council house and doing the 16 hr contract. Its got a whole lot worse since then for all concerned, but mainly for the boys..
Is there an assumption from Labour at this point that the majority of Reform voters come from the most deprived areas of the UK?
Is there a simple solution to this problem like investing in these areas, giving people a chance at contributing something meaningful and fulfilling in their communities, giving people hope and fully pulling people into society rather than just leaving them on the fringes with no opportunities, social fragmentation and xenophobia?
Labour saying “we see you and we’re going to sound nice to you but not change your material conditions” is going to come off as about as cynical as it actually is.
My current school has blitzed attendance, there are still a sizeable minority with attendance issues but as a whole its improved since the pandemic. BUT the ones that are missing often have complex issues e.g. social, mental health etc. These issues are not being treated, its not just working class, there is a sizeable middle class element using it as lever to get their kids into special schools.
Collecting more data is another example of a government having zero ideas to tackle the problem, so kick the can down the road, probably until the next election or Philipson is sacked, then the civil service can manipulate the next minister into enacting all the policies the civil service want, not the elected official though i guess its better than doing nothing.
Plus why the hell is she writing in this mock northern Mam crap! Especially in the telegraph, they aren’t going to warm to you because you’re salt of the earth, the readers will think you aren’t a serious or credible person.
Let’s jump back to a similar article from 71 days ago to find what I said there:
By work in class it most likely means ‘on FSM’ (free school meals) is my guess to match the data/data available….non FSM for white kids is the average (with roughly half of others scoring higher and half lower)
FSM btw (by a quick check)—-your family has to earn below £7,400 (if you get any benefits) or £22,000 if getting no benefits….so we’re talking kids in poverty
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/education-skills-and-training/11-to-16-years-old/a-to-c-in-english-and-maths-gcse-attainment-for-children-aged-14-to-16-key-stage-4/latest/#by-ethnicity-and-eligibility-for-free-school-meals
‘So the poorest 25% of white kids are below the rest of the population in attainment…the other 75% are average’
The interesting stats to look at are more:
1. why is FSM white British HALF the achievement of the non-FSM white British…..so it’s a poverty issue not an ethnicity thing
2. why do Chinese pupils on FSM do as well as Chinese pupils not on FSM
Other than that we see a huge drop compared to FSM to non-FSM in all groups telling us——poverty is bad for children
Ok let’s deal with ethnicity since it is true white kids do the worst——I’d argue (looking at the data of FSM and nonFSM and stuff we already know…which the daily mail article does say too)—-it’s parental involvement and culture. It’s not a surprise that Chinese, black African, Indian etc are doing well (and thus push the numbers of white kids into lower grades) given the cultures focus on strict parenting and importance of education
So yes- poverty is something we need to tackle and parents need to focus more on their kids education and aspiration to close the gap….this headline is bad
This before anyone comments btw is from someone who grew up in a poverty filled area. 22% of my year at school (all white) finished with 5 A*-C which was the ‘good pass’ at the time—-another comp in a slightly better bit of the city was something like 48%. I also teach in a school where a massive chunk of the kids (again predominantly white) are in the poorest 5% of the country
This article focuses mainly on attendance as the big issue
If your white working class offspring are good enough to be given a big fat scholarship or bursary at private school then this government will personally charge you £4-5k in VAT for your insolence in not wanting to be written off.
Boys used to do well in education and girls did not. There has been successive effort to change this and now the pendulum has swung too far and got stuck. We need a government strong enough to rebalance this without damaging female prospects. But male prospects must improve.
Oh the irony!
A conservative rag, and conservative voters, suddenly crying about how poor, poor whites are being “left behind” after the party they touted and voted for cut funding to education to the bone, slashed funding to charity and youth groups whose purpose was to lift these very same kids out of poverty and away from crime and give them the opportunities they need!
Yet the very people and communities devastated by decades of conservative austerity policies will somehow blindly trot out to vote for more of the same, and even more extremist versions? Make this make sense.
Hire the best people for jobs and not the DEI that businesses have been forced into. If they see there is no opportunity for them then what is the incentive to do well at school and in further education?
So the native middle class of our country? No wonder people believe in conspiracy theories
We’re not allowed to have targeted help because that would discriminate against everyone else, but there is targeted help for other groups.