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Underachievement of white boys

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Kandinsky Sun 24-Aug-25 09:29:21

We have to keep white working class boys down as theyโ€™re the only ones who join the army and risk their lives protecting their country.

Wyllow3 Sun 24-Aug-25 09:24:48

What I think it does do is engender envy, and put non white pupils at risk. We need to attend to this "falling behind" - more apprenticeships, curriculum thought through better, and so on, but the reality is that bad behaviour in secondary schools is very endemic and very hard to address.

Wyllow3 Sun 24-Aug-25 09:21:33

I think that many people from other cultures are extra keen for their children to get a good education and go into professional jobs, and we have some great doctors, solicitors, opticians, hearing testing, and so on. Just from experience of who I see in daily life and generally. The big primary school near our mosque its rated excellent and mostly all smartly turned out and discipline better than average

But I don't think that this stops white boys from achieving - I agree with Growstuff its something endemic amongst white born citizens. The recent exam results also showed England behind Scotland, NI, and Wales.

JohnnyMo Sun 24-Aug-25 09:11:24

๐™‚๐™–๐™ก๐™–๐™ญ๐™ฎ: I must tell the white working boys who are least likely to achieve in education how lucky they really are.

๐™‚๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ช๐™›๐™› : Maybe you should start another thread about why they underachieve as a group. I doubt if it has anything to do with other cultures.