AIBU or is this official stance creating a social divide?

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This is the Government Social Mobility chief speaking. How can you support social mobility if you tell the parents that their children don't get enough education at school (paid for and supported by the very state she's employed by) and should do it themselves?
How are the working classes supposed to do that? From what?
Isn't this creating more of a social divide where the wealthy already can afford more education and support of extra-curricular interests for their children?
Are people in Britain really OK with this?

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10367349/Parents-children-lessons-DAY-school-says-Superhead-Katharine-Birbalsingh.html

You know what also creates and sustains horrible divides in society? The Daily Mail.

I grew up in a very deprived area.
My mother was a single mother working part time at Asda. When I was falling behind, she got a tutor. I even saw children from school at the tutoring centre, who I know where also poor! Mad to think working class people have the ability to understand what it means when their child is ranking towards the bottom and figure out how to get a tutor. Families i know just tightened their belts temporarily.
My niece (not by blood) is middle class, she was very behind at her outstanding little school in a middle class area, so much so to the point the school were discussing SEN. A few months of tutoring and on track! I think that's interesting, are children without tutors / not supported educationally outside of school more likely to be diagnosed with learning difficulties?

Who's the "you" @CatsArePeople? Cos that's either incredibly personal and rude to the PP or you're generalising a whole "class" of people you don't know

The "you" who makes excuses why they won't read with their kids.

Why are people so offended at common sense?

The Social Mobility chief said that parents themselves need to put an effort in their kids' education if they want a success, because school alone is unable to do that.

The "you" who makes excuses why they won't read with their kids.
But no ien was saying they don't want to. The point is if you're working crazy hours you have less time to do that. If you're bringing home £200k you can pay someone else to do it. If you're on minimum wage, not so much.

Sleeping, I think you’re looking at ends of a spectrum. People don’t have to pay for tuition, either. There are plenty of free or cheap resources out there to print off, play or watch to develop skills and knowledge for primary and secondary. Even if you don’t have access to the internet there are lots of activities in real life to help. Most parents can support the primary curriculum - it isn’t so advanced. Reading to and listening to a child read is fundamental in developing literacy.
As a former teacher, it was blatantly obvious which parents were supporting their child’s education and the divide wasn’t drawn simply on class.

She is right in that children need a parental input and parents cant rely in school to raise their child and lots of parents are doing this.
But where the advice falls short is not recognising that for some this is a problem around long hours in low paid work, fuel and food poverty and insecure housing so some parents arent in a position to do more.

Last seen banging on about children being trained out of original sin.

She's so weird.

A few years ago when it was the door to door book sales people, I was brought some religious books, and I liked the art work in them, and slowly I started to understand the words of the stories.

Ok * many years ago