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White working-class boys are not failing school because of a ‘lack of aspiration’
The last 40-years has created an educational apartheid affecting all working-class children, boys and girls and of all ethnicities, in Britain, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
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WHITE working-class boys are being left behind at school. And a major reason is that they come from families and communities that are “without a culture of formal education” and lacking in “aspiration.”
The headline is from two years ago. So is the quote, which is from Tristram Hunt. At the time he was Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, a constituency that typifies much of deindustrialised and impoverished Britain.
He went on to abandon representing those working-class constituents to take up a lucrative post as director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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