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The type of school determines those extra hours. I have at times spent a couple of hours at the end of every day dealing with issues from the day and following up with parents. If any of this constitutes a Safeguarding concern there is also follow up. Every incident is recorded. So yes, more...

I don’t recognise these as problems in modern schools. Paperwork has reduced massively with marking done in class or self marked. Homework is also marked by online software (in Maths, my subject, at least) with teachers monitoring feedback from students, filling in gaps next lesson and checking...

Parental wealth and aspiration are not one and the same. In some schools social work is needed more than teaching and parents vote with their feet to send their kids to private schools, grammar schools or simply better comprehensives. And so they should because they put their kids’ learning...

The parents have different aspirations. As for ‘segregation,’ that happens when those parents move to a better area for a better school or choose to just move their kids out of a school where learning just isn’t possible because of behaviour issues. Happens all the time.

We don’t have a 2 tier system. It is multi tier which reflects hugely different aspirations. I could name you state schools less than 3 miles from my house in opposite directions whose pupils live in different bubbles from birth and whose schools reflect that reality. All state funded but...

I’m afraid it would make very little difference to division in society as that would manifest in a different way. What it would do is massively inflate house prices (even further) in the areas near a good state school. The trends we already see between good and bad state schools would be...

Both of my kids have recently bought houses (up north). They did it by saving for their deposits just like I did a generation ago. Perhaps your issue with the housing market is a consequence of your location in the SE of England. It is not the fault of an entire generation who just did what you...

How do we interpret those numbers though ? Total household income is only half the equation as it excludes debt. Some of the highest income households have the biggest mortgages and so are being disproportionately effected by the interest rate increases. For everybody else there is such a...

When was this ? My family couldn’t afford those things but also couldn’t have been called poor.

I would go further in that richness is definitely not measured in income but rather only in assets.