Poor White Children Are The Worst Achievers At School.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2342520/Poor-white-children-likely-succeed-ethnic-group-warns-chief-inspector-schools.html

/// Sir Michael, a former headteacher, told the Sunday Times: 'Where those youngsters aren't getting jobs, then they will be attracted to organisations like the English Defence League, and we need to worry about that as a society.' ///

In his role as Ofsted's Chief Inspector, he would be better employed worrying about why some 'poor white children' are underachieving, and then taking measures to reverse the problem, rather than using this disgraceful situation to make a political point?

[FredPuli43]

That the worst results are from rural areas, such as Norfolk, suggests funding may be part of the problem. Inner cities are likely to have greater funds directed their way. When there's funding an attention the lack of books or the lack of attitude in the home may be overcome.

Mind, in my young days, when we had the 11+, a great many of my classmates, in a direct grant school were sons of farm workers. They were the ones with the highest marks in that exam. But significantly, meeting their parents, it was often the case that the parents had been denied the education which they should have had; they were themselves keen readers and learners in later life. That suggested that an attitude would be present in the home which might not be present in others. I think it's that which still prevails; some parents just do not have the ability or attitude to serve their children well when it comes to learning. They never learnt or valued learning and their children don't.

[naomi24]

//They never learnt or valued learning and their children don't. //

Exactly.

[sandyRoe]

Are children to be thrown on the scrapheap because their parents once were? In NI the worst underachievers are working-class Protestant boys. Education wasn't valued by their parents and grandparents because they thought you didn't need much in the way of learning to take up a metal bashing apprenticeship. It seems now that most of the factories and shipyards have gone, the old attitudes haven't.
It's ironic that added help for those underachievers is going to come from a Sinn Féin education minister, John O'Dowd. He's allocated an extra £30 million to help schools in less priveleged areas.
Maybe extra funds for 'sink schools' in England would help there?

[anotheoldgit]

DTCwordfan

/// that's simple to answer, they would be wiped off the electoral map cleaner than toilet paper on virtually everybody's rear end. ///

Such an eloquent use of words from one who criticises the educational qualities of members of the EDL.

[anotheoldgit]

jim360

/// you, and your White Supremacist rubbish... it's pathetic. ///

Every member of the EDL, and most other white people must consider themselves, far superior than those three Somalians, the two who allegedly beheaded that young soldier, and the one who allegedly attacked the policeman and other worshippers in that Mosque.

[Zeuhl]

/Every member of the EDL, and most other white people must consider themselves, far superior than those three Somalians, the two who allegedly beheaded that young soldier, and the one who allegedly attacked the policeman and other worshippers in that Mosque. /

There are people in prison for child molesting who probably consider themselves superior to 'those three somalians'

That silly argument doesn't really say much for the EDL; does it?

[bednobs]

i am still waiting for you to say what YOU think he should do about it - he can't change the poor bit, he can't change the white bit ...