Education, Who Is To Be Believed?

[anotheoldgit]

We are told constantly that white pupils are achieving much less well than others, and that immigration is instrumental in improving school's academic performances.

Yet yesterday I was watching the TV news and it was telling us that certain schools in certain areas were underachieving and it showed classes at these schools, where the majority of pupils were obliviously from ethnic minorities (perhaps in this particular case 'minorities' is not the correct word).

[TheChair]

"where the majority of pupils were obliviously from ethnic minorities"
Eh? Surely they knew they were from ethnic minorities?

[atalanta]

A couple of points to bear in mind : a school will struggle if a large proportion of pupils do not speak English when they join. Also, the particular concern is about working-class white boys. (Girls on the whole fare somewhat better.) You have to ask yourself about the attitudes of some of these boys, who prefer fooling around and truanting and maybe getting into gangs rather than getting their heads down to study. Their grandfathers could get away with such behaviour, since there were always well-paid jobs for labour, such as miners and steel-workers.
But these jobs are much scarcer now, so today's white boys have to be persuaded that they need qualifications.

[sp1814]

AOG

You posited:

'We are told constantly that white pupils are achieving much less well than others, and that immigration is instrumental in improving school's academic performances."

The first part, regarding white boys is factually correct.

The second part? Who has said that? I've searched online, and cannot find a source for this.

How many schools were featured in the report you saw? Was it a representational sample?

If not, then perhaps it means that in some schools with a predominantly non-white intake are failing, but that doesn't necessarily translate statistically on a national level.

[Togo]

What you are "meant" to believe aog is, that when it suits the luvvie agenda, the white boys are doing poorly because of some failings on their or their families part. But when immigration into schools is highlighted, that all the immigrants are future Einsteins, and could never be in any way instrumental in using up resources that could be put to use to  address the original problem. Neither are the new additions going to worsen crime statistics, indeed their superior social skills are keeping the crime figures lower than they would have been without their contributions.  Got it? You believe what you like though, I do.