{"id":46532,"date":"2016-04-10T01:53:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T01:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46532"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:46:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:46:25","slug":"the-problem-for-poor-white-kids-is-that-a-part-of-their-culture-has-been-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46532","title":{"rendered":"The problem for poor, white kids is that a part of their culture has been destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/apr\/04\/the-problem-for-poor-white-kids-is-that-a-part-of-their-culture-has-been-destroyed\" target=\"_blank\">The problem for poor, white kids is that a part of their culture has been destroyed<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2016-04-04<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulmasonnews\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Mason<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/apr\/04\/the-problem-for-poor-white-kids-is-that-a-part-of-their-culture-has-been-destroyed\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/12e2fa910bfff8ae422b56050315c143d3133982\/10_128_2018_1211\/master\/2018.jpg?w=620&amp;q=20&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=df8200d031939eff720335cc84522d13\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Our culture was the one celebrated in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ken_Loach\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Loach<\/a> movies \u2026 a scene from the film <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kes_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">Kes<\/a><\/em>. Photograph: Everett\/Rex\/Shutterstock<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thatcherism\" target=\"_blank\">Thatcherism<\/a> didn\u2019t just crush the unions, it crushed a story \u2013 as the report that says working-class white children go backwards at school proves<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The report came couched in the usual language of inclusion, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Technocracy\" target=\"_blank\">technocracy<\/a> and \u201cwhat works\u201d. Disadvantaged children are doing so badly at school that only one in five hits an international benchmark designed by the authors.<\/p>\n<p>But the headline grabber in <a href=\"http:\/\/centreforum.org\/publications\/education-in-england-annual-report-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">the paper<\/a> from the liberal thinktank <a href=\"http:\/\/centreforum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CentreForum<\/a> concerns ethnicity: the serial losers after 28 years of marketisation, testing, a centralised curriculum and decentralised control of schools are poor white kids&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/apr\/04\/the-problem-for-poor-white-kids-is-that-a-part-of-their-culture-has-been-destroyed\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem for poor, white kids is that a part of their culture has been destroyed The Guardian 2016-04-04 Paul Mason Our culture was the one celebrated in Ken Loach movies \u2026 a scene from the film Kes. Photograph: Everett\/Rex\/Shutterstock Thatcherism didn\u2019t just crush the unions, it crushed a story \u2013 as the report that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,10],"tags":[23463,81,23462,2103],"class_list":["post-46532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-uk","tag-centreforum","tag-england","tag-paul-mason","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51692,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46532\/revisions\/51692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}