Rogue's Gallery (2011)
“‘They look at your address and put you in the appropriate school for that area. No appeal worth bothering about against the judgement: the kids from a good area get a good school, and the ones from a not-so-nice area get a not-so-nice school.’ ‘You don’t have to talk to the gallery,’ said his father-in-law. ‘I spent my life teaching in a good school, as you very well know, but if I tried to get my grandchildren there on the strength of it they’d snigger at me. I only wish I could help, but you ...know that I—’ ‘We know, Dad,’ said Miriam. ‘We understand.’ Ten years before, her father might have helped his daughter to finance a move to a prosperous area, with well-thought-of schools – his own school, for example, where he had finished up as Deputy Head of English. Now the credit crunch and some crass investments recommended by a friend who knew even less about the stockmarket than Ernest Craven meant that help to make that longed-for step up the social ladder was out of the question.MoreLess
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