UK: "Janet Hughes: Do we like white, working class boys?"

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'Hugs, not thugs

When David Cameron suggested that as a nation we needed to hug a hoodie he had forgotten Rule Number One.

Rule Number One in this country is that we don't like white, working class boys. From what they say to what they wear, it's all wrong. Understanding that universal truth is as much about being British as eating fish and chips.

While some nations shrug their shoulders at the testosterone--fuelled antics of young men or even put them on pedestals, in Britain they are regarded as thick, violent, drunken, lazy, racist, sexist yobs.

So why is everybody getting upset this week about a Commons report that shows WWBs and girls are under-performing at school?

What difference does it make if just 32 per cent of under-privileged white British children achieve five good GCSEs compared with 42 per cent of poor black Caribbean children and 61 per cent of disadvantaged Indian children? It's not as if there's a glut of jobs out there waiting to be filled.

Michael Gove says he wants to know why, but does he really? The unpalatable truth is that the rest of us don't like them and have a vested interest in making sure they don't do well.

In primary school they are taught by middle-class young women who expect naughty boys to look and act like Just William and want scamps with scraped knees, not scalped young oafs who can't sit still with a nice line in cheeky, chappie backchat.

By the time these WWBs grow into shuffling, mumbling secondary school pupils with all the charm of Roland Rat, they are too far along the road to nowhere to do a U-turn. Teachers understandably concentrate on the well-behaved good kids who are going to help those league table results.'

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