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ENGLISH NOW A 'MINORITY' LANGUAGE IN 1,338 'ENGLISH' SCHOOLS COURTESY OF NEW LABOUR = NO BRITAIN!
A damning indictment for the future of 'English' schools
Shocking new government figures show that in a total of 1,338 primary and secondary schools - more than one in 20 of all schools in England - children with English as their first language are now in the minority. And in 600 of these schools, fewer than a third of pupils speak English as their first language. The damning disclosure led to warnings that the rising number of foreign pupils without a decent grasp of English was putting intense pressure on teachers and undermining education standards let alone destroying the fabric of traditional British society.
The shock figures have fuelled demands from teachers' leaders for more money to help meet the costs of teaching foreign-born children. Teachers' unions admit educating a single non-English-speaking pupil could cost as much as £30,000 a year. And coping with large numbers of foreign children risked undermining the quality of teaching given to all pupils.
Philip Parkin, the general secretary of the Professional Association of Teachers, said rising levels of immigration and a lack of multi-lingual teaching staff were "providing serious challenges" for schools trying to maintain standards. Dealing with non-English- speaking children "makes it much harder to deliver the curriculum", Mr Parkin said.
"Schools that are in that position need considerable support in order to give those children help with English and help with our curriculum. The Government needs to be looking at funding the employment of teachers or teaching assistants, in addition to the staff they have, who are bilingual or multilingual."
In November 2007, the National Association of Head Teachers said some schools were struggling to cope with the influx of foreign pupils. Mick Brookes, the union's general secretary, told a Lords committee that the situation was "out of control". A rush of migrants into an area can "strain or even break the resources of the school", he said. And he added that the latest figures proved the case for putting additional resources into the areas dealing with large numbers of non-English speakers.
Data from the Department for Children, Schools and Families show that in 574 of the 17,361 primary schools in England, children without English as a first language make up between 51 and 70 per cent of all pupils. Another 569 primaries have more than 70 per cent who count English as a second language. In 112 of the 3,343 secondary schools, children without English as a first language make up 51 to 70 per cent of all pupils. In another 83 secondary schools, the proportion is above 70 per cent.
The total number of schools where pupils with a first language other than English make up at least 51 per cent of the population is 1,338. Following patterns of immigration, children who do not speak English as a first language are heavily concentrated in certain areas of the country, especially in London. The 20 councils with the highest concentration of non-English speaking children are in London.
In the borough of Newham, nine out of 10 schools have a non-English first language majority. The same is true of a third of schools in Leicester and in Blackburn, and a quarter of schools in Birmingham.
A DCSF spokesman said: "We have listened to the unions' concerns and are increasing funding in the Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant to £206 million by 2010. We have also introduced new guidance for teachers to work with new arrivals. There's actually surplus money in the school system to deal with any 'exceptional circumstances'."
Under New Labour large areas of 'Britain' have come to resemble foreign macro-nations in which the native population is simply ethnically cleansed by 'immigrants' flooding in thus creating white flight syndrome.
The message is now perfectly clear to anyone who wants to save Britain from being destroyed by the multi-cultural Marxists: DON'T VOTE NEW LABOUR!
Top 30 councils, percentage of schools where English speaking children are in the minority:
Newham - 87.65432
Tower Hamlets - 76.19048
Westminster - 72.34043
Brent - 68.05556
Ealing - 61.84211
Hackney - 61.29032
Haringey - 60.27397
Kensington and Chelsea - 60
Harrow - 54.6875
Camden - 52
Waltham Forest - 43.83562
Redbridge - 43.28358
Lambeth - 42.85714
Hounslow - 41.89189
Hammersmith and Fulham - 39.53488
Slough - 36.84211
Enfield - 31.3253
Leicester - 31
Blackburn with Darwen - 30.30303
Barnet - 30.18868
Bradford - 30.10753
Islington - 29.62963
Southwark - 29.62963
Birmingham - 26.66667
Luton - 25.75758
Wandsworth - 22.72727
Oldham - 21.10092
Manchester - 18.70968
Greenwich - 18.18182
Rochdale - 17.64706