the Tom Hunter foundation

The money announced this week from the Tom Hunter foundation for three schools in Edinburgh was great news. That cash (£1.5m) will really help those kids who at present end up as NETSs, (not in employment, education or training).
A couple of issues came out of the news. Firstly the question of private cash for public schools. The thing about Tom Hunter is that he is a philanthropist not a private investor. There is a real difference. He doesn’t want to influence the curriculum, he wants to see those young lives changed.
The other issue was that the schools objected to the use of the words ‘poor’ and ‘disadvantaged’. The trouble is, these are not pejorative statements, they are simply statements of fact; the three schools, Castlebrae, Craigroyston and Westerhailes all serve areas where those with least income live and many also struggle with many other issues. That doesn’t make them bad people. It just means they need more support.
Maybe we’ve taken political correctness in our language so far that we aren’t ever able to describe the real world for fear of offending some-one