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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The State of Social Mobility in the UK - Dark Lord Potter Forums

The State of Social Mobility in the UK - Dark Lord Potter Forums: "The programme included depressing statistics (a comprehensive pupil has a quarter of the resources lavished upon him or her that comprise the lot of a privately educated student), and enraging case studies – like that of "Georgina Jones" from Peckham, whose success in getting to Nottingham University to read law after a troubled adolescence "is such a rarity" that it put her in an uncomfortable and, to her (such is the lack of role models for the feat), unique limbo. 'Everybody's life seemed so perfect . . . they'd travelled . . . The way everyone spoke was different. They called me 'Gangsta Princess' [at Nottingham] and 'Uni Girl' at home.'"?CLASS-INEQUALITY?

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