bigfluffylemon wrote: Press seems to be backing Joe Root, at least at the moment. Rafiq has said he is a good person and didn't engage in racism, so saying he should step down seems a bit far to me. Joe wasn't captain when many of these incidents occurred - he was a pretty junior player at Yorkshire just making his England debut. But I agree he needs to clarify what happened
Durhamfootman wrote: On selective education, I went to a grammar school in the '70's and it would have been around the same time as Lord Patel (I'm 60, he's 61). Nowadays schools with 'Grammar' in the name tend to be fee-paying schools, so aren't really representative of grammar schools in my day, and it was while I was there that grammar schools were phased out. Mine was actually the last grammar school year in my school. In the part of Stockton where I lived secondary education was served by 4 schools. One was a RC faith school, two were grammar schools and one was a secondary modern. My school was split into boys and girls, class size was 40, 3 classes of each gender per year... roughly 1200 pupils, the other grammar school was mixed and of roughly comparable size. I have no idea how big the secondary modern was but I doubt it would have been anywhere near double the size of the others, so back in the 70's in my part of the world, a very substantial percentage of school aged children would have had a similar education to me, which isn't particularly elitist. I've no reason to doubt that this will have been fairly typical of Lord Patel's schooling
Durhamfootman wrote:In the 60's and probably the 50's too, Grammar schools were the bridge that got working class kids into universities, I think. Before that it was very rare for the son (let alone the daughter) of a miner to go to university..... if I've got my history right (it was long time ago that I was in school)
sussexpob wrote:You shouldnt treat this as a personal attack.
Arthur Crabtree wrote:Azeem getting headines for his own historic texts. This won't change the job that cricketing bodies should do, but it will undermine the message that gets through to the public.
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