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Originally Posted by Mancie
Lets get real... the main thing being that, rich or poor, the person involed has to have the qualifications to even apply for a place at Uni...now there's no way anyone can tell me that a kid from a less well off family has the same chance as one from parents that can afford to pay for the best education at the earliest age.. I've known very bright kids that had fantastic potential let down when they ended up at bad state secondary schools with bad reputations and frankly not very good teachers...these schools are predominatly in areas were incomes are low... there's no doubt that if you can afford to pay for your kids education .. they have a much better chance of Uni
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ok in my family alone 4 attended the 6th form, 1 went to manchester polytechnic, 1 salford university, 1 liverpool university, 2 accrington & rossendale college after leaving school. We all went to the same school well nearly all - it changed names in 1973 so basically it was the same school. Haslingden Secondary/Haslingden High ....... Now we werent rich by any means ... and if anyone knew my dad ...which jaysay might remember him from many years ago ... seeing as it was 23 years since he died last week... my mum and dad never paid for any of our education - we went through school and did our best. They backed us all the way and if we wanted to stay on at school then they supported us - but if we wanted spending money after the age of 16 then we had to have a part time job. In actual fact i got a paper round and thought i was in the money - and dad stopped my pocket money after i started the paper round! The above includes my nieces and nephews and they were treated exactly the same when they finished school ... thats why 1 is at salford uni at the minute, another trained as a nanny - when a job fell through she retrained as a teacher at Liverpool uni, 1 went into the 6th form ..did his a levels and is now working for lancashire county council ... on an apprentice scheme ... and doing a good job to. They all have or had part time jobs going through uni and 6th form.
Thing is though we made it through with the backing of parents and grandparents ... how many kids nowadays will have that ... with divorce, separation, or just being with a single parent ... Thats the problem ... we had discipline growing up from both parents .... now they dont.