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

[Anthea Fraser Gupta]

CRUCIAL to see this sort of crap. Thanks Hal -- saves me looking at the BNP website (which I recommend to you all, btw).

I thought that by getting in first and drawing people's attention to the NPI I would prevent this problem....  All of Hal's forwardings come from a particular political context and it is part of our role as language policy analysts/makers/advisors etc. to situate the politics of public discussion. I generally make comments on the places I know best (especially UK and Singapore) to help people less familiar situate the commentary. I would suggest that the best response to postings is to make a comment that helps those not familiar with the source understand the agenda the source might have.

BTW, some good news -- the British National Party (extreme right wing, racist, fighting for indigenous British people, violent, altogether nasty) did really really badly in the 6 May elections! So this report may be an attempt to regain lost ground too.

Anthea
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From: lgpolicy-list-bounces at groups.sas.upenn.edu [lgpolicy-list-bounces at groups.sas.upenn.edu] On Behalf Of Davyth Hicks [davyth.hicks at eurolang.net]
Sent: 17 May 2010 10:30
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Subject: Re: [lg policy] The Colonisation of Britain Continues: 16% of Primary  School Children Do not Speak English as Their Home Language

Hi Harold,

Are you sure that you should send out this 'report' from the far right
British National Party and republished on this NPI site?

Best regards,

Davyth Hicks
Eurolang

Harold Schiffman wrote:
> 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.
> At special schools, 9,380 pupils, or 10.9 percent, do not speak
> English as a first language.
>
> The final total for all schools is 905,610 pupils, or 14 percent — but
> this does not include second or third generation immigrant children
> who do speak English at home.The growth in non-indigenous pupil
> numbers also directly parallels the rise in pupils eligible for Free
> School Meals (FSM), which, according to reports, is a measure of
> poverty. In secondary schools, 15.4 percent, or 441,000 pupils, are
> eligible for the dinners, up from 14.5 percent, or 417,970 pupils last
> year. It means an extra 23,000 secondary school pupils are now
> eligible for the dinners than there were in 2009.
>
> According to University of Bristol research issued in January this
> year, the number of white primary school pupils in London has fallen
> by a quarter since 2002.The research defined a school as “minority
> white” if less than 30 percent of its pupil base was white. Using that
> measure — which is clearly inadequate — the number of white minority
> primary schools in London rose from 22 percent to 36 percent between
> 2002 and 2008. This means that only 6 percent of primary schools in
> London now have a “substantial white majority,” the researchers said.
>
> http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/2010/05/15/the-colonisation-of-britain-continues-16-of-primary-school-children-do-not-speak-english-as-their-home-language/
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