Blue Hefner
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Not just a private education. All sorts of factors mean that deprivation reduces life chances, and education is part of that. I don't know if I can easily put my computer on the graph that shows that a less intelligent child from a relatively wealthy background is likely to overtake in achievement a pupil of greater ability (based on assessment on entry to primary school), but it was part of the rationale for Labour's Sure Start. This goes back at least to the Coleman report in the States in 1966, on how equal rights in education (didn't) play out.
It's compounded of course when someone advocates that the best pupils should get the best resources and the best teachers and have more money spent on them.
I’m also pretty sure a poor kids experience of the Police is different to a posh kids. I’m also sure if the same kids were caught with a certain amount of drugs that it would have a longer negative impact on the poor kid and less so on the posh kid