Ds is year 12 at a comprehensive in London. It’s in a slightly “deprived” area, and about 25% of pupils get the pupil premium. Ds doesn’t, but we’re not miles above the cut-off.
My gripe is that the school works with several charities that provide tutoring and mentoring but it’s only the pupil premium kids who are eligible for this. For example, one of these charities pairs up pupils with students at top London universities (UCL, LSE, Imperial) who did similar A levels to them, and they have a weekly tutoring session at the school. And the student also takes the pupil on a personal tour of their university.
I just think it’s unfair that my son’s friend gets to be tutored by an Imperial girl who got straight A*s in her A levels in the same subjects as his friend last year, while my son doesn’t, even though we could never afford to get him a tutor like that. My ds could really benefit from these experiences as he’s struggling quite a bit with his A levels and no one in our family went to university so a personal tour would be a great experience.
It’s not just this one - the school has done a few residential trips to universities this term, like Bristol and Nottingham, but only pupil premium kids could go.
AIBU?