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The current instalment of the Tory culture wars has taken a sinister turn, writes teacher ROBERT POOLE
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I WROTE last month that the Tories were insisting on using our schools as the battleground to fight their culture wars. Well, since then they have decided to ramp this up yet further.
First, they declared that, contrary to popular belief, the cause of white British boys falling behind their peers is not a decade of austerity, the decimation of working-class communities and the chronic underfunding of the education system — it is in fact the fault of the lefty Marxist woke brigade and their “politically controversial language.”
Using the phrase “white privilege,” insists the education select committee in a report, is the reason for the attainment gap between working-class white boys and those from other ethnic groups — not the systematic neglect of large swathes of our population by successive right-wing governments.
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