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Sunday, 21 January 2018
Let's bully state education with 'social mobility'!
State education is used and bullied by people claiming to want 'social mobility' when 3 things are designed specifically to prevent any form of level playing field: a) tax evasion/tax havens b) private education c) inherited wealth. State education can't beat those three!
And let's not forget that the whole idea of 'social mobility' is based on a mythic idea that the people down below can and will 'move up' a ladder but why would people up above 'move down' the ladder to give them room? The point is a) tax evasion/tax havens b) private education c) inherited wealth are designed to prevent 'moving down'.
Meanwhile, some of us think there shouldn't be a ladder in the first place!