Schools should cut down on museum and theatre trips and remove references in lessons to middle-class activities such as skiing holidays, a government curriculum review will be told.
Deprived pupils are alienated by the use of jam-making, rocking horses and house purchases as examples in exam questions, said Lee Elliot Major, a professor of social mobility at Exeter University.
He said the miners’ strike and Jarrow March, along with the working-class heroes Michael Faraday, Charles Dickens and Mary Anning, should be covered instead.
Some of this is sound and a balance would be beneficial but we know the woke will abuse it so no one gains.
