🌍 Europe 8h ago · Lucy Reade

Britain’s new class-based divide is here – and it starts with the children

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Britain’s new class-based divide is here – and it starts with the children
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I started secondary school in 2015, and for my first few years phones were effectively contraband. If you were caught with one – even glancing towards your blazer pocket was enough to arouse suspicion – it would be confiscated until the end of the day. But slowly, and quietly, they began to creep into school life more and more, to the point where now it feels as though they’d have to be surgically removed.

It happened in small, reasonable concessions. Teachers would tell students to take a phot

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