Broke vs poor
Being in a persistent and often intergenerational state of having very little money and access to resources is not the same as temporarily having low income as an individual.
Stories about poverty
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Don’t explain
Are you fed up of moderating yourself for people you can never please? Do you feel the pressure to constantly explain yourself to the mainstream? Stop. Learn from Toni Morrison and don’t explain. Live your life and let others catch up.
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Let’s talk about money
The first rule of money club is you don’t talk about money club. The second rule of money club is you don’t talk about money club. Talking about money is vulgar, gauche, taboo. I’m going to break the rules.
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What middle class teachers need to know about their working class pupils in poverty
What do middle class teachers actually know about how poverty affects the working class children they teach?
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The Universal Panacea? The number one shift in UK education I wish to see in my lifetime
“Britain was a society run mostly by cliques and groups of friends who had first met at public schools and Oxbridge. Public school education remained the key for anyone hoping to make a career in the City, the civil service or the higher echelons of the army. Schools such as Eaton, Harrow and Winchester might […]