[lg policy] The Colonisation of Britain Continues: 16% of Primary School Children Do not Speak English as Their Home Language

[Anthea Fraser Gupta]

Oh dear -- the National Policy Institute strikes again.

I am in Australia at the moment and am again struck by how politicaly different are discourses of indigeneity in Europe than in those places Europeans colonised. And how complex are the ways in which ethnic supremacists can negotiate who belongs to a place and who doesn't....

Anthea 
(Indigenous British married to troublesome native speaker of Bengali, mother of half-caste daughter, etc.)

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Anthea Fraser Gupta (Dr)
School of English, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
<www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/afg>
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The Colonisation of Britain Continues: 16% of Primary School Children
Do not Speak English as Their Home Language

According to figures released in 2008, more than 30 state schools in
England were made up solely of ethnic minority pupils with no white
children on the roll. The rapid takeover of Britain by non-indigenous
peoples has been confirmed by new Department of Education figures
which have revealed that 16 percent of primary school children aged 11
and under speak English as a second language. This translates to
518,020 pupils. In secondary schools, around 11.6 percent or 378,210
pupils do not speak English as a first language.
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