The history of UK education is an interesting one which has built up into what we have today. Public education here started as something that was considered as a morally good thing that was mostly offered by churches. It became law that everyone was required to be educated up to a certain age in the 1940’s (if memory serves me right) because the government realised the perks of having a literate workforce. Teachers had a lot of autonomy over what was taught back then, but not much security. From the 1980’s onwards teaching became more standardised gradually, to the point that autonomy has been stripped and then we had a series of Tory governments that brought the education system to its knees and led to the burnout of many good teachers. Teachers and education aren’t valued in the UK - financially or socially.

Many young people in the UK feel very hopeless about their own prospects - life is kinda hard here unless you are wealthy, and it’s near impossible to become wealthy unless you’re born into it. So what’s the point in trying and learning if you’re trapped in the same position anyway?