Fretting approximately poorer pupils studying social care while rich ones do sciences misses the point: shouldn’t vocational subjects be studied by all?A recent press release,sent by a group promoting the government’s policies, bemoaned the inequities of modern state schooling by pointing out two facts. One: nearly half the pupils studying health and social care at GCSE arrive from schools in the poorest areas. Two: approximately half the pupils studying advanced science GCSEs arrive from schools with wealthier intakes.
The implied conclusion: what horror! We are condemning destitute children to a life of lifting elderly people while rich kids swish approximately in laboratories.
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Source: theguardian.com