The reason why poor children do worse
at school than rich ones can be endlessly debated, but the fact that
they do is indisputable, in ours and every other country. This does
not just happen in bad schools, only in the top 15% of state schools
do poor children perform above the national average at age 16 and
children in those schools who aren't poor do far better.
Ds are worse than Cs, Fs are worse than
Ds. The message to poor children as they learn about the world and
their place in it is that they are inferior. The official record of
their lack of value will be the last communication they have from the
institution tasked with rescuing them from poverty.
Companies set their wages at the lowest
level people will accept and those who since childhood have been told
their work is worth less than that of others will accept very low
pay.
How can we justify treating people this
way?
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