Class war hits coronation street

antrim | miscellaneous | opinion/analysis Sunday October 03, 2004 23:10 by never trust the rich

Class politics storyline hits coronation street as working class scholarship pupil Katy webster is bullied by rich snobs at her snooty new grammar school.'apparently toffs can smell poverty a mile off'', and have realised Katy's humble background.

Katy eventually makes friends with another charity case, Pippa papadoupolos, who anxious to fit in with the other well to do pupils, is ashamed of her working class kebab shop worker parents, and takes every opportunity to look down on them and slag them off to fellow pupils.

One local school here in Northern Ireland has taken a novel approach to dealing with social class inequities which scholarship charity case 11+ pass pupils may face, Lagan college routinely demotes any poor/working class pupils who pass the 11+ out of their exclusive elite grammar stream school, in order to avoid social class inequities which may arise through working class poverty stricken 11+ passers coming into contact with the privileged offspring of the coached 11+ rich.