Primary schools in England are now in hot water as they are being accused of discrimination. In a report made by Sutton Trust, it claimed some schools found it more favorable to prefer well-off kids from rich families rather than the poor ones.
Filtering Students
According to The Independent, Sutton Trust learned almost all of renowned primary schools, especially faith schools, have disapproving standards when it comes to receiving students. It looks like some schools are being picky by filtering the rich students over the poor kids and choosing the former over the latter.
"There are some parts of the country where many schools are accepting some children ahead of others," Dr. Rebecca Allen, co-author of the report by Sutton Trust, said. "What we found is that those children had a social profile that was more affluent than the neighborhoods that they were recruiting from."
In fact, there are about 1,500 primary schools in England has been indicated with "social segregation." The said number of schools are disapproving less fortunate students and preferring richer kids that belong to families that have high incomes.
Equality In Every School
Hence, the study from Sutton Trust brings up the issue of the need for fairness in every school. The being selective of primary schools over the low-income pupils are making them incompetent to be part of the popular state schools.
BBC News reported underprivileged families have a smaller chance of sending their children to well-known schools, as per a separate analysis by Teach First. Apparently, students from poor household ended up to be in "weaker primary schools."
The study by Teach First revealed that Blackpool in England doesn't have its own "outstanding school" while the Isle of Wight and Thurrock only have one each. Teach First suggested primary schools have to hire more high qualified teachers and school leaders in poor areas to help stop the lack of right education for poor students.
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