BBC头条啊。还特意指出来了族裔,black African pupils,Bangladeshi,black Caribbean pupils。
Mr Halfon described it as a “major social injustice” and a “scandal” that so little attention had been paid to how white pupils on free school meals underachieved compared with free school meals pupils from most other ethnic groups.
“If you think it’s about poverty, then it doesn’t explain why most other ethnic groups do much better,” he said.
- At GCSE, in 2019, 18% of white British pupils on free meals achieved grade 4 in English and maths, compared with 23% for the average for pupils on free meals
- For university entry, 16% of white British pupils on free meals get places, compared with 59% of black African pupils on free meals, 59% of Bangladeshi pupils on free meals and 32% of black Caribbean pupils on free meals.