For those having a quiet day patronising working-class Salford children after the latest episode of Channel 4’s TV series Educating Manchester, I recommend you look at Joan C Williams’s new book, White Working Class.
Williams is writing about the US, but her observations rang so many bells, some of them probably in Bow as well as Salford, that I felt duty bound to report back. In a chapter entitled Why Don’t They Push Their Kids Harder to Succeed?, she explains some of the obvious reasons Kylie and Wayne don’t always get a leg up from their parents in the way Rupert and Saffron might.
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