The curriculum of "The English High School" was clearly established to funnel a certain population of students into positions that were deemed "suitable" for their socioeconomic class. In Jean Anyon's "Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work" she states that social class is perceived as a complex of social relations that one develops as one grows up and acquires certain bodies of knowledge, skills, abilities, and traits. She states that these define our material ties to the world and states an important concern of whether these relationships are developing in children in schools within particular social class contexts. The establishment of the English High School, compared to schools like Boston Latin, shows that these relationships did develop in children depending on the social class context of their school.