{"id":9724,"date":"2019-05-11T11:13:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T10:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=9724"},"modified":"2019-05-11T11:13:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T10:13:04","slug":"social-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/social-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Social engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/edition\/news\/private-woe-over-rise-of-state-pupils-at-oxbridge-0wz57wvsf\">Private school woe over rise of state pupils at Oxbridge | News | The Times<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The recruitment by Oxford and Cambridge of more state pupils has led to private-school parents claiming that their children are being edged out by \u201csocial engineering\u201d, a leading head teacher has said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My jaw dropped when I saw the front page of The Times in the paper shop this morning. Unfortunately, or fortunately,  I can&#8217;t read the whole thing online as it is behind a pay wall.<\/p>\n<p>It is the <strong>social engineering<\/strong> bit that got me. A whole class paying for their children to be schooled differently <a id=\"fnr1-2019-05-11\" href=\"#fn1-2019-05-11\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> may not fit the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_engineering_(political_science)\" title=\"Social engineering (political science) - Wikipedia\">exact description of  social engineering<\/a> but it an huge effort of that class to shape society and keep itself on top.<\/p>\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\n<ol>\n<li><a id=\"fn1-2019-05-11\"><\/a>along with a huge network of connections, private tutors, being able to pay for internships&#8230; <a href=\"#fnr1-2019-05-11\">&#8617;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private school woe over rise of state pupils at Oxbridge | News | The Times The recruitment by Oxford and Cambridge of more state pupils has led to private-school parents claiming that their children are being edged out by \u201csocial engineering\u201d, a leading head teacher has said. My jaw dropped when I saw the front [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[660,6],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-micro","7":"category-wwwd","8":"kind-note","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-2wQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9725,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions\/9725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9724"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=9724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}