A review by _annabel
Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me by Kate Clanchy

4.0

Very interesting book about the English education system. This has always been a mystery to me, GCSEs and A levels and all that stuff. She really lays into how poorly the system is set up and how it excludes anyone who isn’t middle-class. The stuff about the expulsion, where kids are informally expelled in order for the school to rate better. But those kids miss out on an education, because their parents don’t know the system. The section on streaming was interesting too, having gone to a school that was streamed. I never thought about what it must be like for the kids put into the lower streams.