Yet so many parents seem to want to flee it. They zoom off to the suburbs or market towns or leafy boroughs or peaceful shires – anything to avoid that Inner City School. There’s much chatter about gangs, knives and riots. That area. You can’t get to Russell Group universities, if you stay in this “moronic inferno”. So off they go. White flight. Paranoia.
They’re wrong. London does well academically. The inner city is often rather nourishing. It could well up the IQ. Let me persuade you. Let me take you down the streets of London... like this one, like Goldbourne Road W10, part of the catchment area in which I taught for yonks.
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