I'm proud of being middle class
However, I do not think that it is entirely the preserve of the middle and upper classes to receive a good education.

Sadly in recent years it has become more and more accepted to allow poor quality English in the interests of greater accessibility.

What utter crap.

Everyone has a right to a good education in the UK.

By making good grammar the preserve of those with financial access to a decent education opportunities are being removed from all.


Education is the route out of one's class.

And on that point I do have some experience...both my parents came from traditional working class backgrounds - my father didn't even own a pair of underpants until he joined the army at 15 back in the 1950s. My grandmother still lives in a council flat and my uncles all went down the pits (before Thatcher shut them down).

I was the first member of my family, on both sides, to go into Higher Education. The first one to get a degree.

And how?

Because I got a scholarship...but not from the government - they'd stopped them. I got mine from a charity.

Education is our right...the right of all.

And I for one will not stop complaining about poor standards of grammar and spelling wherever I see it because it's precious and something we all deserve.


/alcohol fuelled rant over.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sat 17 May 2008, 21:16, Reply)