The new educational consumerism means that parents are increasingly outputting a lot of their own soical and culteural capital into their childrens education. This creates even more of a divide in society between the rich and the poor as those with less social, cultural and in turn ecomonic capital, are less llikely to have the awareness and freedom of the those with more. It then follows that in context to the way society works, put forward by Bourdieu and Durkheim, assessing a group with this risk management attitude, will always leave the indidvidual behind, if they do not meet the full criteria of that group that is being risk managed.
This is problamatic in various ways, to the achievement of the individual child, or certain groups, as education becomes cut and dry such as in those expressed in statistical constructions, and the educational needs are not met for those individuals or groups.
This is problamatic in various ways, to the achievement of the individual child, or certain groups, as education becomes cut and dry such as in those expressed in statistical constructions, and the educational needs are not met for those individuals or groups.