Schooling Comprehensive Kids by Amanda Palmer

Author:Amanda Palmer [Palmer, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138348059
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-02-26T00:00:00+00:00

Despite leaving school at Easter with no formal qualifications, Duncan was well-able to articulate his notion of class differences and his sense of injustice that such differences existed. He went on to say:

Duncan: ‘I don’t think it’s fair to be so unequal but it will keep happening. I think it’s stupid to do the Pools and for one person to get rich. I don’t think a bricklayer should get less than a clerk. A bricklayer uses his brain too, and with no office computer to help!’

Duncan’s father was a bricklayer and he was experiencing the irregularities of contract work whereby there were often weeks of unemployment between jobs. Duncan was speaking in support of him having seen the limitations this placed on the financial rewards his father obtained for his labour.

Pupils frequently blamed ‘the Government’ for the inequalities which they saw around them, especially unemployment:

Duncan: ‘It’s bad at the moment, I haven’t got anything behind me or to look forward to. She’s [Mrs Thatcher] not doing a good job really.’

Eric (black less-achiever): The country’s diabolical, terrible at present. She hasn’t done a lot for the working class .... unemployment always strikes me as possible ....’

Delia (black less-achiever): ‘I’m not really interested in politics but I will vote Labour because they don’t take one person’s side. They take everyone’s side, they help people. Not like the Conservatives, they want what’s right for them.’

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