The Observer front page screamed about church schools and their bias towards the rich. Well, how many secular public schools are there? For such are the institutions favoured by Observer and Guardian writers as parents.
And we all know that the real objection to "faith schools" is that Catholic ones have been so good at, according to the old Christian Brothers' maxim, "taking the sons of dockers and turning them into doctors".
The professions, and thus the places where professional people live, now contain any number of people originally from Scotland, the North, the Midlands and the less salubrious parts of the South, with working-class grandparents or even parents, and with Irish great-grandparents.
Where will it all end, Your Pollyness The Toynbee?
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As the son of a steelworker (and I still have my own hard hat from the steelworks) who is a Doctor, I couldn't agree more. My old school, Our Lady and Pope John XXIII in Corby, was shut down because, I suspect very strongly, Ofsted had some anticatholic agenda that they were allowed to get away with. It's such a shame. Keep up the good work with the blog david, it's very enjoyable!
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