The website of Eton College promises that “Eton believes in equal opportunity for everyone irrespective of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, belief, disability or social demographic background”. Before you dispatch your progeny to claim their free first-class education at this socialist paradise by the Thames, it is worth checking the “fees” section of the same website, which takes a rather less egalitarian line on the issue of “social and demographic background”.
The nice words were not really meant. Vacuous moral self-congratulation is simply the default mood of the modern public school. Harrow runs an equity, diversity and inclusion group. Marlborough offers lessons in “implicit bias, stereotype threat, oppression, power structures and racial profiling”.
Naturally, one supposes these earnestly progressive institutions are united in passionate support
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