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Private Schools and Queue‐jumping: A reply to White
Author(s) -
KIDD IAN JAMES,
JAGO MARK
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9752.12432
Subject(s) - meritocracy , harm , false accusation , argument (complex analysis) , jumping , white (mutation) , sociology , queue , psychology , law and economics , law , social psychology , political science , computer science , physiology , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , biology , programming language
John White defends the UK private school system from the accusation that it allows an unfair form of ‘queue jumping’ in university admissions. He offers two responses to this accusation, one based on considerations of harm, and one based on meritocratic distribution of university places. We will argue that neither response succeeds: the queue‐jumping argument remains a powerful case against the private school system in the UK. We begin by briefly outlining the queue‐jumping argument, before evaluating White's no‐harm and meritocracy arguments.