mja6758 said
When I was at school back in the 80s, doing CSE English Literature, one of the "poems" we studied for the exam was She's Leaving Home by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. I went to a bog standard British school, and we were taught the fecking Beatles in English Literature! Alongside a Shakespeare play, and a Bronte novel. They are already being taught, and it has nothing being reserved for study or aimed at the middle-class. It's just because they are the best at what they did!
Same as me! When I was in sixth form (1999) we ...