Analyse two ways that the education system system provides equal opportunities for all - 10 marks

Analyse two ways that the education system provides equal opportunities for all – 10 marks

Prep: 12 - 15 mins, 2 paragraphs, 1 side, PEA

One way in which the education system provides equal opportunities for all is meritocracy. This is classified as a social system where everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed and where individuals’ rewards and status are achieved by their own efforts rather than ascribed status by their gender, class or ethnicity group. Meritocracy has been mentioned by a functionalist Parsons who had claimed that both schools and schools and society judge us on universal and impersonal standards e.g. sitting the same exams and receiving the same pass mark thus the school acts as a society where it allows…