Slothrop
Tight but Polite
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8160052.stm
I guess we've been over most of this 17 times before here.
On the other hand, it seems to me like this sort of issue is actually getting aired in mainstream politics more often now, which is kind of interesting. The language is still 'opportunity' and 'advantage' rather than 'class war' and 'hegemony', but it seems like an improvement on the situation five years ago where it was sort of assumed that because a respectable number of bright middle class kids from nicer state schools could get to Oxbridge as well as Old Etonians we'd moved into some sort of utopian classless society and anyone to whom this didn't apply was sort of politely ignored...
I guess we've been over most of this 17 times before here.
On the other hand, it seems to me like this sort of issue is actually getting aired in mainstream politics more often now, which is kind of interesting. The language is still 'opportunity' and 'advantage' rather than 'class war' and 'hegemony', but it seems like an improvement on the situation five years ago where it was sort of assumed that because a respectable number of bright middle class kids from nicer state schools could get to Oxbridge as well as Old Etonians we'd moved into some sort of utopian classless society and anyone to whom this didn't apply was sort of politely ignored...