After some five years of me banging on about the need for greater recognition of underachievement amongst poor white pupils, there does appear at last some acknowledgement of the issues and problems.
I wrote a report which was first published as a Word document in 2005. The report was recently published in a glossy format by Birmingham City Council.
On 19 May, it was referred to a number of times in a speech by Richard Burden MP, Birmingham Northfield. He also appeared to have used it as background for the speech. Moreover, the government minister responding to the speech also appeared to have read the report and accepted its main recommendation i.e. that there should be a national strategy on addressing white underachievement.
I have hope that something may happen as a result. Let us wait and see.
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Submitted by karamat on Wed, 2009-05-20 18:54.