evaluation

• Neil Keddie


  -sees CD as myth

  -victim blaming

  -dismisses idea of failure at school can be blamed on culturally deprived home

  -child can't be deprived of own culture

  -culturally different not deprived
• why do children fail - Keddie

  -put at disadvantage by education system dominated by middle class values

  -schools don't recognise & build on its strengths

  -should challenge teachers' anti working class prejudices
• Troyna & Williams

  -problem is school's attitude towards towards child's language

  -teachers have speech hierarchy with middle class speech highest
• Blackstone & Mortimore 


  -working class parents attend fewer parents evenings because they work longer / less regular hours

  -put off by school's middle class atmosphere

  -may want to help but lack knowledge