The same applies in France. HYes, there are people sleeping in the streets. Yes. there are food banks (run by the Croix Rouge - there waa a long article in La Dépêche du Midi last year about Foix (where parts for Ariane and the aviation industry are made), sofa surfing - I knew a few who were doing it, not knife crime per se but how about the Gilet Jaune movement which puts UK knofe crime into oblivion?rockfreak wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 8:22 pm . On the measures of OECD figures about inequality we show up badly. And also in the research by Wilkinson and Pickett in their much praised book 'The Spirit Level'. Homelessness, food banks, the middle classes sofa-surfing, an epidemic of knife crime (this not entirely based around recent immigrants).
Spain which is in multiple areas and languages has its own problems, many of which are hushed up. Remember the opression of the Basques and, far worse, Cataluna.
If the majority of teachers actually took pride in their jobs there would be no need for different systems. When a maths teacher of A level students spends the lessons on preaching Marx (as happened to my son) why do parents want better?It seems to me that our fractured society is mirrored by our fractured educational system. Private schools, grammar schools, comprehensives, faith schools, free schools, academies). Does any other country in developed Europe have this ridiculous system?