Etonocracy

[brogdale]

It's complete bollocks, as is playing the system by using different exam boards for different subjects, depending on which are considered easier.

In Scotland, there's one exam board. So if you do Higher English* for example, you know you sat exactly the same exam at exactly the time on exactly the same day whether you're in Lewis or Linlithgow.

* Or whatever it's called these days.

As is all 'marketisation' of privatised, out-sourced service provision.

 

[chilango]

I've taught igcses. Will post later about them. Am camping so it might be a few days....

So when I taught iGCSEs - a few years back - the official line was that they were more challenging than GCSEs and more relevant prep for A levels or Uni.

I have heard a teacher in a state school claiming only a few days ago that their school brought iGCSEs in a few years ago precisely to "game the system". I don't know how true that is.

However, at the end of the day it isn't a GCSE grade here or there that gives private school kids the advantage, it's social and cultural capital.

Grades are a (deliberate) smokescreen.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Burn it down

 

[GarveyLives]

An apparent 'good news story' ...

East London state school outperforms Eton in Oxbridge offers

... but here is the reality ...

Eton showed me how privilege is nurtured and how the UK’s power structures – and systemic racism – were forged

... and the end result:

"The dominance of Eton-educated men in public life is greater than it was a century ago – with Old Etonians running politics, the media, the Church, and the law ..."

Etonocracy: How One Public School Came to Dominate Public Life

 

[ska invita]

Serious question: how come every boy in this Eton photo has ruddy cheeks?

 

[platinumsage]

Perhaps the viral disease "slapped cheek syndrome" is circulating there at the moment.

 

[Spandex]

The flames of hell that awaits them is already bringing out the inescapable heat rash on their faces as Satan rubs his hands with glee and turns the heat up.

 

[tim]

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Serious question: how come every boy in this Eton photo has ruddy cheeks?

Too much sport.

 

[High Voltage]

Burn it down, contents and all, then bulldoze the ruins never to be rebuilt

 

[tim]

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The flames of hell that awaits them is already bringing out the inescapable heat rash on their faces as Satan rubs his hands with glee and turns the heat up.

.Oh dear, I was quite fond of Humphrey Lyttleton.

 

[Spandex]

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.Oh dear, I was quite fond of Humphrey Lyttleton.

No exceptions!

 

[stavros]

From the Wiki page of old Etonians:

 

[rubbershoes]

From the Wiki page of old Etonians:

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The proceeds of the Darius Guppy fraud bought me a very nice dinner. His business partner paid at the restaurant without mentioning that he was out on bail at the time.

 

[stavros]

Can someone who knows how to add "criminal" to Johnson's career path, please?

 

[Jeff Robinson]