Katharine Birbalsingh has said something I agree with!

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This: BBC News - Success not all about getting to top, says social mobility chief Birbalsingh
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61745817

I have always thought it silly that the social mobility debate is always focussed on getting the most disadvantaged children into top universities and jobs. That will only ever help a small minority of families. Social mobility is also about the majority of people making small but significant steps up the ladder. Of course it is. But we rarely talk about it, acknowledge it or celebrate it.

(p.s. I haven't agreed with much else that she has said in the past).

For example:

• My grandfathers worked in ship building and coal mines in the north east, so would have been considered very working class.
• My parents went to gramnar schools, and into white collar jobs (but not to university), in the north east, so would have been considered lower middle class.
• I went to a Russell Group university in the late 1980s and moved to London, where I work in a professional job. I would probably be considered middle class.

To me, this is social mobility.

Yes, it’s a slow climb but the disparity was with pupils from w/c / other backgrounds who went to private schools and then universities then grad schemes and were able to climb quicklier.