Opportunities and Expectations

Aspirations and Expectations

Opportunities

Nadia talks about mainstream.

The Eleven Plus

Here Belinda describes her anxieties about the Eleven Plus exam.

Put Down

Here John describes the low aspirations people had of him throughout his life.

Climbing Scafell

Here Roger remembers being denied the opportunity of a family trip.

Do Something Easy

Here Samantha describes people having low expectations of her.

Low Expectations

Here David talks about the expectations within his school and society.

Homework

Here Miro talks about the influence his parents had on his school’s expectations.

Makeup

Here Christine talks about the low expectations she experienced on her Secretarial Course

No Encouragement

Here Clenton talks about the low expectations his teachers had for him and his classmates.

Low Assumptions

Here Jamie describes attitudes about achievement within his school.

Limited Teaching

Here Paul describes finding a higher standard of teaching when visiting the mainstream school.

B for Backward

Here Sue describes how the classes were arranged into categories in her school.

Lack of Opportunity

Scholarship

Here Micheline talks about being denied her place at the local grammar school.

Grammar School

Here Mavis talks about being denied entry to her local grammar school.

Lost

Here Clenton describes how he wasn’t allowed to take exams.

Certificates

Here Ronald talks about having no certification for exams from his school days.

An Awful Experience

Here Maresa talks about being isolated in a unit within a mainstream secondary school.

Exams

Nadia talks about her experiences of inaccessible exams.