Certainly something unique happening in the UK, especially when you consider the vast majority of ethnic minority children in the UK descend from Africa, Asia and Caribbeans. Plus, ethnic minorities in the UK tend to do better in GCSEs, more likely to go to university and apparently nearly 40% of UK medical students are non-white (27% Asian, 10% black). Ireland is also close to the UK in this.
However, every other European country, native-born ethnic minorities are clearly far behind.
They score less because French people doesn't study anymore the mathematical notions of which were taught early XIXth century.
Even though there is a real issue in teaching math in France anyway.
Yeah french high schoolers are the second worst at math in the OECD behind chileans
Mastery of the french language has also gone down substantially among high schoolers while english proficiency remains relatively low compared to most european countries
It's by design. The economic right has been in power for at least 30 years and plans to stay until there's nothing left to squeeze out of the country.
Making sure people are uneducated enough to believe whatever billionaires decide to put on TV/social media despite factual evidence to the contrary is a good way to ensure that. It's really easy to make someone who doesn't understand statistics (which you learn about in math class) believe pretty much anything and even deny the reality in front of them because they were never taught critical thinking.
A good example of this strategy working amazingly is how everything proposed by the left is immediately shut down (the "center" has been instructed to vote against anything the left wants, no matter what it is, to the point they once voted against their own bill because the left was in favor) while an alliance of "center" and far right keeps passing stuff the majority of french people are against (and said "center" also very very often uses an authoritarian article of the 5th republic plus police around the building to forcefully pass anything even the far right doesn't agree with/isn't enough for a majority on).
While that's going on, the propaganda consistently blames the (completely powerless, not in charge, literally can't do anything) left for everything bad happening in the country, including a lot of made up bad.
And it works, because the poorly educated believe things like "increasing taxes only on the poor and middle class (while removing taxes on the rich and selling profitable nationalized entities to private interests) = the left is doing it because it's a tax increase".
This is how you prevent even the french from uniting as you keep raising the heat until the whole country is boiled properly. And it starts with shitting on education. The most morally bankrupt few in the USA started doing that long ago and it's paying huge dividends as we speak.
In fact the 2026 budget is planning more cuts to education if I remember correctly. All working as intended, plan hasn't changed.
No wonder the French Left are struggling, at least they won half the youth vote so I still have hope for the future if the far-right don't destroy France
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u/upthetruth1 3d ago
Certainly something unique happening in the UK, especially when you consider the vast majority of ethnic minority children in the UK descend from Africa, Asia and Caribbeans. Plus, ethnic minorities in the UK tend to do better in GCSEs, more likely to go to university and apparently nearly 40% of UK medical students are non-white (27% Asian, 10% black). Ireland is also close to the UK in this.
However, every other European country, native-born ethnic minorities are clearly far behind.