It’s no surprise that white working-class boys do badly at school

Their morale is likely to be lower than that of more superficially ‘oppressed’ groups and their family life more chaoticThere has been another report – this time from the Sutton Trust – showing that white working-class children are underperforming in schools. This is a long-established tendency. Nearly all ethnic minority groups do better. This includes black African, Chinese and Bangladeshi children.We are in a tricky area here – where race meets culture. Biology m