Schools to be able to select based on race ?

[whiffey]

I heard a snippet of news on LBC 1152 that the Conservatives are discussing the notion that schools might be able to base their selection of pupils on ethnicity. This sounds like a good and forward-thinking idea. I am wondering how it might work in practice. Eton could select rappers from Lambeth, and similarly Lambeth could select white toffs from Windsor. Obviously there would be no compulsion nor societal pressures. Seriously though, how could this latest hair-brained politically correct idea work in practice ?

[wizard69]

A multi-culteral society that doesnt interrgrate.
sounds about right...

[wizard69]

Presumably this will also apply to white, british kids, or would that be considered racist?

[whiffey]

Please don't miss the point. It means that schools such as Eton, Haberdashers, Brentwood, can now insist on an intake from the inner suburbs. Such an intake has been denied to them up until now for trivial reasons like intelligence and educability. Now is a chance to put that right innit.

[Neilzulu1]

About bloody time.

[wizard69]

Whiffey... I'm a bit confused here. What has ethnicity got to do with inner city suburbs?
If schools refuse to take pupils because they lack intelligence and educatability....fair enough. But your post implies that schools might be able to select their pupils on the grounds of ethnicity.

[jno]

they already are, so clearly it's working in practice.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0 ,,2089167,00.html