For poor children, lunch is a rushed butty. For the rich, it’s orchestra and standup | Laura McInerney

The demise of the state school lunch hour is yet another obstacle to Oxbridge places

There was justifiable outrage recently when the headteacher of £12,000-a-term Stowe School complained that “social engineering” meant Oxford and Cambridge universities were taking fewer kids from private schools.

Schools are social engineering factories; it’s what they are supposed to do. They take children and batch-improve them so they are ready to join society as adults. And as we all know, it is state school pupils who usually battle against the well-oiled social engineering of the rich.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2VRX0eN