[EDLING:205] Scotland: Teachers want to cap numbers of migrant pupils in class who speak little English

[Francis M. Hult]

Scotsman.com

Teachers want to cap numbers of migrant pupils in class who speak little English

TEACHERS have called for a cap on the number of non-English speaking pupils 
allowed in the classroom, amid fears that their education is suffering. 

The annual conference of Scotland's biggest teaching union, the EIS, was told 
that increasing economic migration, particularly from the new EU member 
countries, has created classes without a single child who speaks only English. 

A majority of delegates at the conference in Perth on Saturday passed the 
motion for the union to negotiate an agreed national limit. 

Many teachers say they are finding it increasingly difficult to balance 
teaching those with no English, while still educating the remainder within the 
curriculum, without sufficient specialist support. 

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