Neue Zahlen zeigen, dass weiße Jungen aus der Arbeiterklasse vom Bildungssystem am meisten im Stich gelassen werden
https://www.itv.com/news/2026-06-09/crime-no-opportunity-white-working-class-boys-are-being-let-down-by-system
Von GnolRevilo
Neue Zahlen zeigen, dass weiße Jungen aus der Arbeiterklasse vom Bildungssystem am meisten im Stich gelassen werden
https://www.itv.com/news/2026-06-09/crime-no-opportunity-white-working-class-boys-are-being-let-down-by-system
Von GnolRevilo
34 Kommentare
No no what they need is more patronising pseudo-documentaries about their toxicity.
Any other ethnicity and this would be considered institutional racism
You would never believe this if you looked at the equality guidance for education. Tory leader Kemi has received a lot of criticism today but she is right is saying equality and anti racism amount to anti white in practice. When the disparity is against white people there is no effort to correct it.
It’s the same figures in a different year. White working class boys have been shafted for decades now
I dont think this is the sudden revelation that the headline might have you believe. Stats have shown this for ages, and it’s public (but unconformable) knowledge – back in 2021 the government published „The Forgotten: How White working-class pupils have been let down, and how to change it.“.
Let down by the system, possibly, let down by their parents is more likely.
It’s a cruel world but, you put garbage in, you get garbage out.
Not new figures.Every government study done into this for over a decade now, and they just don’t do anything about it
I agree but the hypocrisy of the right pretending to support white working class kids when historically the Tories have done the most to screw them over is astonishing.
This isn’t new information but shockingly people don’t actually care about the education of young white boys until it can be used to spout ‚anti-white‘ nonsense
As a white working class northern boy from the 70s I can tell you this is not exactly a new phenomenon.
“White working-class kids are twice as likely to be absent from school, according to the Independent Inquiry into White Working Class Educational Outcomes.
On average, pupils are missing 7% of school lessons, compared to 13% for white working-class pupils.
White working-class kids are also two and a half times more likely to be severely absent, meaning they’re missing more than 50% of school.
The inquiry also found that white working-class pupils are much more likely to have special educational needs; 34% have SEND, compared to just 19% for others.”
So a parenting issue then?
Nonsense.
White working class boys around my neck of the woods would tell you that they are not interested in GCSEs and Levels.
All my tradesmen are white working class kids and they are doing well for themselves.
My plumber,my mechanic and my electrician and my builder all white working class. My builder told me that he didn’t like school he is 24 and is running a successful business and doing well for himself.
Why do we think that everyone needs to do GCSEs and A levels and needs to GCSES
Ridiculous rage-baiting nonsense. The raw data only says two things:
1. White working-class kids are twice as likely to be absent from school
2. White working-class pupils are much more likely to have special educational needs
So let me get this straight, parents are failing their children but somehow that’s the governments fault? Why do white kids need special education needs more than others?
I think a lot of the problem is the lack of second chances in our system you either go the academic route and get it right first time or you’re fucked. We need far more vocational training and it needs to be accessible to adults after they have worked out that flipping burgers in McDonald’s is a crap life. I’d put a lot of the blame at the door of 50% going to university it’s sucks the life out of the alternatives.
As one, well former one I guess lol, this isn’t really shocking, felt like there was tons of boys like me in school that people just didn’t care about even if you did really try and studied.
Yeah some of the boys I was at school with did mess about and not even try but it wasn’t all of us, at least more news of it might help future generations eventually.
Maybe white boys have a toxic culture. Why aren’t their community leaders promoting better values in their youth?
As a teacher, they’re not most let down by „education“. They’re most let down by family, poverty, and total disregard of children by the country.
Education isn’t a band-aid for all the problems these kids face. It cannot help some of them because they’re so aggressively opposed to it doing so. Their parents too.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve called a parent of a white working class disruptive child and the parent has „taken their side“ and accused me of favouritism or whatever else. „Do you have proof he was cheating?“ … „Yeah, he was sitting on a fully filled out copy of the test“ … „That doesn’t prove it, he says he had no idea that was there“ – like fuck me man, there is no hope in that situation and it is more common that you think.
Until their parents respect their teachers and back them you’ll never help them.
Let down by the education system or by their families’ lack of ambition or education values?
The shit results are just the end result. It’s not schools’ responsibility to fix shitty parenting
Idk what its like now but when I was in school the parents you had made a lot of difference. If you misbehaved at school youd actually shit it from your parents finding out. If the parents didnt care I doubt the kid did
It’s a cultural issue that is the result of generational welfare dependency and poor parenting. Source, a 24-year-old veterinary student who was told by his mother to beg the council for a flat the moment I hit 18.
Working class are generally disadvantaged but with non-whites they often have immigrant parents who drive their kids harder to improve their economic situation.
White working class have a different culture so its not really that surprising, though I know many who went on to excel academically, they were definitely outliers
This isn’t a DEI issue, this is a systemic class and educational issue. Working class kids don’t get the same opportunities as other classes – look at parliament, media, & entertainment, high profile careers are held by people who went to private schools, posh universities, and grew up well off.
School is also geared to academic intelligence. We don’t teach kids about life and growing up – core life skills. We don’t prepare kids for their future careers.. getting kids involved in trades, hands-on experience, involvement in outdoor activities. Not everyone is suited for exams, coursework, etc yet that’s all school is shaped for. If they don’t enjoy academic subjects or find them tough, they’re basically forgotten about, put in lower sets and that’s it. We should have kids being given the opportunity to learn hands-on skills, and not be waiting until apprenticeships come along.. by which point kids are disenfranchised, demotivated and struggling after years of feeling ‘less than’.
Parents should be held as accountable as the system! And it’s always been the class issue not skin colour but UK media won’t print anything which doesn’t causes some sort of division.
Well yeah…
Years in the educational system seeing „white boys outranking others“ meant that policies got introduced to target those inequalities.
A few I remember off the top of my head are STEM and WISE groups focusing on encouraging women into those fields through school, along with introducing coursework style subjects (bTecs) as it was shown girls typically do better in continuously assessed situations over end of year exams (like A-level/GCSEs).
Girls are introduced to their own role models at a young age – a significant proportion of teachers are female in the younger years of school. This also comes with conscious and unconscious bias which, yk, is hard to actually study so the figures aren’t exactly clear.
You also have (and this goes for any sex teacher) other biases over the fact that boys tend to be more unruly and distracting in class. That adds a negative label onto boys and so focus might be spent more on girls.
Reading up about Willis‘ „the lads“ is quite insightful. His was a case study about 7 working class white boys. Of course, like all studies and research, there’s pros and cons to his methods, and his evidence.
Another thing relating to social status is also the fact working class (economicly deprived) tend to have to work to support their own household. It’s more of a work culture than a „study and get a better paying job in the future“. Not even necessarily an immediate gratification over sustained, but out of necessity. In addition to this you’ll have social issues which relate to economic status. Less time to study because of work. Parents most likely working instead of helping their kid (compared to middle class+ families – especially at developmental years like preschool).
There’s so many factors I can’t list or remember them all. But there’s both internal and external issues which affect every demographic, but some have had policies implemented to combat them and been successful while others haven’t.
I’m usually on the right and suspect I will be downvoted for this, but surely part of the cause of this is that Britain has a somewhat meritocratic system that leads highly able and driven people to leave behind their working class roots over generations. Alongside the fact that our immigration system has a degree of selection in it, so non-whites tend to be among the more able people from their home countries.
new figures show exactly the same thing as the old figures, and the ones before them
I don’t know what educators are meant to do when we’ve created a culture where white working class boys think education and reading is feminine or gay. I have female friends who are teachers, and they’re leaving education in droves largely because of the constant misogyny and abuse.
How do we solve this? These kids actively resist learning.
Southgate was kind of right when he said boys and girls learn better separately. Boys and girls do tend to learn differently, and male and female teachers will be most comfortable teaching the way they learnt best, so with more female teachers, the methods are going to suit girls more.
Add in lack of role models too, and even lack of purpose (girls will typically have their mother as a role model and someone to aspire towards), and boys are going to find the environment more difficult.
New figures?!
We have known the education system doesn’t suit boys since the 1970s.
We have had clear proof of teacher bias against boys in grading and discipline for decades. Just having a male name = worse grade on a blind exam.
We even had the lockdown exam results with a clear gender bias in the news.
Nothing will change because its boys not girls.
Quick, we need to show Adolescence in schools again.
It’s almost as if social class has always been the single biggest dividing factor in British life. It’s absolutely criminal that we spent so much energy on race and gender while abandoning millions of white working class boys to rot.
White working class boys most let down by their parents
Fixed it
As someone from a council estate in the north east, the young white working classes here have been thrown on the scrap heap. No youth centres, no Sure Start, parks are no go areas, football fields sold off for new house builds, high street decimated, it’s no wonder they either turn to crime or feel isolated at home. They hear terms like ‘white privilege’ and stuff about colonisation that demonises them and where they come from.
Modern Britain increasingly rewards educational credentials, professional occupations, and urban service-sector careers. Young men who do not follow those pathways can feel that the skills and values they inherited are no longer respected. The sad reality is that many of these working class lads aren’t from areas where they could have those opportunities. Any other ethnic group and this would be plastered everywhere and condemned.
You could also throw in toxic feminism. No wonder marriage rates have fallen, community organisations have weakened, religious participation has declined, and many traditional pathways into adulthood have become less stable.
What nobody else has said un this thread is that this is partly a regional issue.
Black/asian working class kids are far more likely to live in big cities, statistically. Cities where they can see visible signs of success all around them. Cities where schools are better funded and have an easier time hiring teachers.
White working class kids are more likely to live in shitty deprived towns, where work is harder to come by and the schools are bad.