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Pushy Middle Class Mothers Thursday 13 March 2003
Every parent wants the best for their child, but mothers it appears, want it more.

Professor Stephen Ball of London University's Institute of Education concludes, after 10 years researching the root of success at school, that if you've got a pushy mum you're on your way.
So, as parents agonise at the moment over whether private or state education will give their children the best start in life, does it not really matter as long as there's a mother who fixes the music and the elocution classes and wields the stick over homework?
Sherry Ashworth is a writer and teacher who sent her two girls to private school. Joan Davies is a teacher whose three children are state school educated and Stephen Ball, the author of the report all join Jenni to discuss.




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