Sentences with phrase «middle class background»

Children from poor backgrounds and ordinary middle class backgrounds should have the same opportunity to receive an elite education too, assuming they can cope with the standards required.

Those in opposition to free community college argue that beneficiaries end up coming from upper - middle class backgrounds rather than low - income households.

So no one thinks we can eliminate the advantages given by affluent or even solidly middle class backgrounds.

By the looks of this posting, you mean for ambitious careerists from comfortable middle class backgrounds who can't be bothered to wait their turn (people like Obama, in other words) rather than for ordinary people.

Other leading Labour figures have come from comfortable middle class backgrounds — like Clem Atlee or Tony Benn.

The notion that you have to be from an upper class Cambridge public school to get into the commons is nonsense - maybe in the Tory party, but how do you explain the vast majority of people from working and lower middle class backgrounds such as John Prescott?

«She comes of middle class background herself, and has true respect and compassion for the struggling middle class, and the struggling working class and the struggling not - working class today.

The other comes from an upper middle class background and knows that the Bank of Mom and Dad would chip in (at least to some extent) if a financial emergency came up.

You could argue that the group was actually truly representative of the «industry» as the very nature of travel blogging means that the younger end of travel blogging especially is over represented by people from white, middle class backgrounds because people who aren't from that background simply can't afford to take time out to travel... despite what some blogs might say.

What would you impart to young teachers from upper / middle class backgrounds who are coming into places like Brownsville, Bed - Stuy, and the South Bronx?

The other major «Raj» nostalgia of the 1980s was the television serialisation The Jewel in the Crown, in which the villain — Ronald Merrick — was depicted as a sadistic deviant who happened to come from a lower middle class background, was a grammar school boy and a closet homosexual as well.

I did, but only one of those was from my close friendship group - and she just happened to be the only one from a middle class background.

«Christine Quinn has laid out an ideas - driven agenda, backed up by a real record of delivering, and her plans for New York are rooted in her middle class background and a vision for New York where working families can continue to live and work here.»

But although having a middle class background makes it more likely that someone had gone to university, Dr Reeves's findings showed that they were no more likely to take part in arts after graduating than were working class students.

The reality is that most of us were well - behaved students from a middle class background who found learning interesting enough that we pursued it for a lifelong career.

Seventeen students were enrolled in the course, 12 male and 5 female students, with an average age of 24.3 years (15 students were 24 years of age or younger, 1 was 32, and 1 was 48) and hailing from lower - middle to middle class backgrounds.

Those from middle - class or upper - middle class backgrounds can more easily get financing from family members or get family members to co-sign student private student loans.

This was done because only pupils from upper - middle class backgrounds had access to such education.