Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
lol, which entirely explains the continuous attempts to destroy those elements of the school system that are consistently successful, such as using infrastructure funding to force selective schools into non-selective regimes, and removing the charitable status from private schools unless byzantine quota rules are accepted.
I suspect those measures are intended to reduce the exclusive elitism both selective/grammar schools and private/public schools engender. The simple fact which today's report re-iterates is that overall, middle-class people do better than working class people -purely because of their parent's class.

I imagine your "byzantine quotas" are designed to ensure that private schools feature a balanced proportion of working and middle class children.

Ultimately this is a moral argument about whether you think people should accept their lot (and for some the ceiling to their ambitions), due to the shear accident of fate that bore them to the familly it did -and not one down the road or, why not, in Mogadishu or Port-au-prince.

Labour seems to have arrested or stabilised the trend to increasing inequality, whether the buckets of cash thrown at the problem have had the best effect they could have as resources is another matter. It is a long term issue, felt through generations. I hope it has been money well spent!