Labour MP tells shares her radical plans for education and explains how New Labour helped turn her life around "My school, we affectionately nicknamed it Avonjail, but it was called Avondale, Avondale high school in Stockport. I left with no GCSEs above a D," says Angela Rayner, with a school rebel kind of a grin, as we start our interview. Brought up on a Stockport housing estate by her mother, who could neither read nor write, Rayner was pregnant when she quit full-time education. "I kind of l...
Angela Rayner: 'I'm not OK with a school system that allows you to fail or be chucked out'
The Guardian - 21 Sep 2019 22:30
Labour MP tells shares her radical plans for education and explains how New Labour helped turn her life around "My school, we affectionately nicknamed it Avonjail, but it was called Avondale, Avondale high school in Stockport. I left with no GCSEs above a D," says Angela Rayner, with a school rebel kind of a grin, as we start our interview. Brought up on a Stockport housing estate by her mother, who could neither read nor write, Rayner was pregnant when she quit full-time education. "I kind of l...
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