UK: Poor boys 'turned into criminals' at school

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'In a damning report, it was claimed thousands of white British and black Caribbean boys from the poorest backgrounds were being consigned to a “lifetime of crime, drugs and prison” after being failed at school.

The report blamed the “ideological fads” of the left-wing educational establishment.
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In its annual report, the watchdog said that a “stubborn core” of poor teaching was holding back progress at thousands of schools and warned of a persistent gap between rich and deprived pupils.
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“Effective ways of teaching children to read have been replaced by a system which completely fails those who find reading most difficult. ...

“Standards of discipline have collapsed. The curriculum has been destroyed. Competitive sports have been run down. An acceptance of failure and a lack of aspiration is found in too many schools.”

It added: “The tragedy is that we are turning large numbers of potentially decent young men into misfits and criminals… The failure in our schools falls hardest on them. It condemns them to a life time of crime, drugs and prison and to seeing their own children also fail.”'