[Margaret Pilkington]

In an intelligent child poverty can be a driving factor.
I came from a poor background....and did not do particularly well at school.....but this was not because my parents did not care...or because they had no time for me......we always had books in the house.
My brothers fared better, and one went to Grammar school and one went to Technical College...yet we all had the same upbringing.

I think it is too simplistic to link two things together and think that you have the answer......the problems of education are multifaceted.
Education methods have changed, and it appears, not for the better.