Certainly too close to the truth to be laughed about, in my opinion. And, having grown up in a working-class environment being 'too clever for my own good', I should know.
It's the fucking same over here. Once poor, always fucked. So sad. I work with LGBT (but it doesn't matter your sexuality) kids from the "projects" and their prospects are awful.
Hello Jay I was lucky, as is K, in so far as we both made it into selective schools within the state system, but since the demise of most grammar schools in the 1970's, even that possibility of social mobility has been taken away for the vast majority of young people, making 'the system' even more rigged towards those that can afford to buy their way into positions of power and privilege. So much for the 'classless society'.
It's the fucking same over here. Once poor, always fucked. So sad. I work with LGBT (but it doesn't matter your sexuality) kids from the "projects" and their prospects are awful.
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Jay
Hello Jay
DeleteI was lucky, as is K, in so far as we both made it into selective schools within the state system, but since the demise of most grammar schools in the 1970's, even that possibility of social mobility has been taken away for the vast majority of young people, making 'the system' even more rigged towards those that can afford to buy their way into positions of power and privilege. So much for the 'classless society'.
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Sammy B