... between social classes. Language development and usage has been linked to class, ethnicity and even gender and also linked to success and failure. When considering the factors involved in differential achievement we need to recognise that the social characteristics of by different children have an affect on the way they are treated within the education system. Simply because we may refuse the idea that something like "parental attitudes" alone does not explain differential achievement does not mean that, in the context of the way in which teachers behave towards children in the school, for example, such factors are unimportant. As we have seen in relation to the relative achievement levels between children of the same measured intelligence and different social class, it is evident that the school environment does have an impact upon achievement. If a working class child can, through their behaviour, appearance, etc., convince a teacher they are from a ...

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