These Victorian legacies include: reliance on the generalist class teacher rather than specialist subject teachers, lower per pupil funding than in secondary schools, lower status for primary school teachers, a formal education starting age of five, and long summer holidays which are left over from the days when children were needed to bring in the harvest.

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None of what the politicians and pundits talk about during the current tax debate will actually help those in the lower income brackets improve their status.

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Most of the victims we read about in India are largely uneducated women from poorer backgrounds - reinforcing a general perception that domestic violence or intimate partner violence is more pervasive in groups of a lower socio-economic status.

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And the resultant move lower in the dollar has implications for everyone on account of its reserve currency status.

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