1 in 9 schools where English is not first language

[TheOstrich]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/10 ... guage.html

This is now getting crazy. English is the mother tongue of this nation - but for how long?

Douglas Carswell, a back-bench Tory MP, said that Britain's needs to have a "national debate" about the impact of immigration on social cohesion.

You bet we do, Douglas. We can start by saving money and getting rid of all official translated Government / local government documents. If you can't speak or understand the language, tough!

At Maidenhall primary school in Luton, 98.9 per cent of pupils do not speak english as their first language ......... For the first year pupils are "immersed in English", after which most pupils have reached national standards.

The only redeeming feature in the article in my book.

[KateLMead]

This information is nothing new Ost, I read of this shameful situation a couple if not longer years ago.
In my doctors surgery there is a list of around 40 different languages presumably interpreters have to be brought in
For individuals who do not speak OUR language.
Is it any wonder our English children are failing, and indeed foreign children are succeeding having one to one teaching.
Diversity!!!

[Workingman]

An interesting list; well defined by the fact that the areas where these schools are situated are also some of the most deprived areas of the country. That information flies in the face of the constant propaganda that "immigration is good for the country (the economy)" when it actually isn't.

The problems for these schools, and society, are that multiple foreign languages are having to be dealt with simultaneously, and that many of their speakers are 2nd or even 3rd generation migrants.

[KateLMead]

Our area certainly isn't deprived Frank. However the big .garage and store, the post offices, two big supermarkets, fish shop curry houses Chinese takeaways are all owned by Indians and foreigners in what are small vicinities

[Kaz]

I know Luton well as my sister lives there, as did my parents for the decade or so before they died.........My sister has a lovely house in a nice part of it, but TBH you could not pay me to live there................. Many parts of it are like a little Pakistan, and lots of it quite radical

These stats do not surprise me in the least, I am sure there are now Infant schools here in Gloucester where most of the intake in the last year or so have had either Polish, Czech or Russian as their first language..................

[KateLMead]

Yes I agree about Luton, when young I had an antique shop in Leagrave Rd. Birth town Bedford.
Both towns are now unrecognisable.

[Kaz]

My sister lives in Leagrave, but on a newish small estate of detached houses way back off the main roads

[Aggers]

I don't feel I can say much on this subject.

I am very much living in the past. When a child I never saw a coloured person except at the cinema,
and I find it very hard to accept the way life in this country has changed. Consequently I have to
bite my tongue quite often, because anything I said would, no doubt, now be illegal. Understand?

The stock response is that I should move with the times but the truth is, I don't really want to.
I'm quite happy living in my own little world.

[KateLMead]

I don't feel I can say much on this subject.

I am very much living in the past. When a child I never saw a coloured person except at the cinema,
and I find it very hard to accept the way life in this country has changed. Consequently I have to
bite my tongue quite often, because anything I said would, no doubt, now be illegal. Understand?

The stock response is that I should move with the times but the truth is, I don't really want to.


I'm quite happy living in my own little world.

If only I were Aggers, I am certainly not happy in my own little world, sadly I feel anger at what this country has become.
I have just been reading an excellent article written by The English Constitution party one eye opener after the next.

[Aggers]

If only I were Aggers, I am certainly not happy in my own little world, sadly I feel anger at what this country has become.
I have just been reading an excellent article written by The English Constitution party one eye opener after the next.

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