Private schools are nationally self-harming - Labour must dismantle them ✍️ The real problem with Labour’s private school policy is not that it is too harsh. It is that it isn’t harsh enough 🔵 IanDunt for ipaperviews
of the privately educated in the senior judiciary, the upper branches of the civil service, journalism and the diplomatic corps.
Morally, the picture is therefore quite simple. This is not a meritocratic society. It cannot be. The children of the successful have a higher chance of themselves becoming successful by virtue of the success of their parents. Private schools allow for privilege from the point of birth to be cemented into place for the entirety of the individual’s life. It is a kind of vestigial hereditary organisation.
There may be other factors in play here. Finland makes sure teachers pass the dinner-party test, by making it a highly paid profession with a large degree of autonomy over their work. It also starts formal education late – after seven years of age – while encouraging play in early child education.
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