Pip Pip!
After all the sneering, at last someone is sticking up for the middle classes
Alice Miles
IS IT POSSIBLE that the middle classes are achieving some sort of a renaissance? With Sir Ian Blair and Lord Rogers of Riverside both pleading, in effect, for more not less middle classness over the past week, I begin to wonder. Sir Ian pleaded with the middle and upper classes to join the police, while Lord Rogers said that cities need the middle classes to live in them if they are to flourish.
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[T]he whole and honourable purpose of the White Paper [on Education] is to try to harness the enthusiasm and commitment of the middle classes to improving schools for everybody. Shame that Labour is ashamed of that. At some point, after the Ds and Es have been offered a choice of schools, or the chance to improve their local school, and special advisers to help them to make the choices, and free buses to the better schools, and they still don’t use the opportunities, a middle-class mum is entitled to stop worrying about “selfishly” bettering her own kids’ lot.
See also:
http://impdec.blogspot.com/2005/11/coursework-in-exams-favours-middle.html
http://impdec.blogspot.com/2005/10/faith-no-more.html
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