General Chat

Those children who do best at school come from cultures and homes where education is valued. Their parents support the schools and work with the children at home. They praise their successes and help them with their failures.

The longest school day in the world cannot make up for inadequate parenting. If parents don't value and support education their children won't either.

NB I have never said there shouldn't be faith schools, my position is that faith schools should not be state funded.

This is percentage achieving good GCSE's from a poor background currently:
White British background - 32%
Indian background - 62%
Pakistani background - 47%
Black African background - 51%
Black Caribbean background - 42%

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-27886925

Moving on from debate about whether we should have faith schools or not (I think not and majority agreed with me), there is an important article today by Sean Loughlan on BBC News about under achievers from poor backgrounds.

Employers like Dermot and others on Genes will be well aware that many children are not meeting any sort of basic standards in the school system currently.