colonisation by the middle classes of the best state schools
Did anyone else note the odd use of the word “colonisation”? It seems to me a loaded political word in the context of educational influence? How does one colonize a good school? Send a gunboat? Put chains on the teachers?
How odd.
And yet the article offers another explanation. It isnt the Rich that are changing the status quo....
An additional explanation of the sudden widening of the gap this year may be the influx of immigrants who do not have English as a first language, he suggested.