Really bizarre and dishonest extrapolation by Sundar Katwala about a Newsnight report this evening on the differential achievement between schools in London and schools outside London.
The commentary did not say that BME people were successful per se - in fact Sir Michael Wilshaw (Chief Inspector of Schools) who was interviewed specifically said there was no genetic difference between children of different ethnic groups.
The difference is accounted for because of the different standards of teaching.
Which I think we knew all along - lazy teachers in a dumbed down education system and enjoying a unionised security of tenure produce poor results.
The bubble of achievement in London was caused because the Labour government threw money at schools in London.
Given the preponderance of BME people in London it also follows that the Labour government disproportionately favoured and funded BME children to the detriment of non-BME children in the United Kingdom.
Presumably, according to the Doreen Lawrence formula, that amounts to institutional racism.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk25
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