[lg policy] Fwd: Migration and the Changing Face of Education

[Lyubov Sokirkina]

Сегдня в Омане праздник, Женский День, к сожалению, рабочий. Поздравляю, 
обнимаю, целую. БЛ




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From: Dave Sayers <dave.sayers at cantab.net>
To: Language Policy List <lgpolicy-list at groups.sas.upenn.edu>
Sent: Sun, October 17, 2010 12:55:09 PM
Subject: [lg policy] Fwd: Migration and the Changing Face of Education

I've never been sure why I receive circular emails from LSoI. I certainly can't 
vouch for their authenticity or origin, and they're always fairly polemical, but 
they usually touch on language policy in one way or another.

(Note: I'm forwarding this to the list only as an 'interesting text'; I don't 
endorse or denounce its content.)

Dave

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Dr. Dave Sayers
Honorary Research Fellow
School of the Environment and Society
Swansea University
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http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers



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Subject: Migration and the Changing Face of Education 
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 22:57:54 +0100 
From: Iftikhar ahmad <london_school_of_islamics at btinternet.com> 
To: d.li <d.li at reading.ac.uk> 


Established 1981
LondonSchoolof Islamics     
An Educational Trust
63 Margery Park RoadLondon E7 9LD
Email: info at londonschoolofislamics.org.uk
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Migration and the Changing Face of Education
Globalisation means that we now all live, work or communicate with people who 
are different. In this global village, religious faith plays a central role in 
the way that people understand or from their culture and identity. Human being 
is a product of his culture, language and faith. There is a positive co-relation 
between language and culture. Parents have the right to raise their children in 
faith based schools. Those who object to this right display their contempt for 
parental rights and sadly intolerance for the religious convictions of others. 
It is not only Muslims but other communities have been trying to set up their 
own schools for their children. I set up the first Muslim school in 1981 and now 
there are 166 Muslim schools and only 11 schools are state funded. There are 
four Sikh state funded schools.Hindu state funded school was set up in Harrow 
last year and next year a Hindu state funded school would emerge in Leicester. 
Even Black community is thinking of setting up its own schools for black 
children with black teachers. 

 
 A study by Bristol University reveals that a high level of racial segregation 
in Oldham schools and tension between communities resulted in recent riots in 
2001. A report by the Institute for Community Cohesion found that native parents 
were deserting some schools after finding their children outnumbered by pupils 
from ethnic minorities. The native parents do not want their children to be 
educated along with migrant children.  Schools in parts of England are becoming 
increasingly segregated.  Many of the schools and colleges are segregated and 
this was generally worsening over recent years. This is RACISM. The solution is 
that those schools where Muslim children are in majority may be opted out as 
Muslim Academies. State schools with non-Muslim monolingual teachers are not in 
a position to satisfy the social, emotional needs and demands of the bilingual 
Muslim children. Majority of them leave schools with low grades. They find 
themselves cut off from their cultural, linguistic and spiritual 
identities.Muslim children in state schools feel isolated and confused about who 
they are. This can cause dissatisfaction and lead them into criminality.
 
Immigration is an unstoppable face of modern society, and immigrants will need 
help integrating, but the host society needs to show zero tolerance to non-EU 
and EU citizens who clearly don't like being here.   The second generation of 
Muslim migrants is facing a huge challenge because they did not think even for a 
second before that someone would say, 'You are not welcome. Native Brits feel 
that their culture and language is superior and every Tom and Harry must learn 
English and forget their own languages, cultures, literatures and poetry.  It is 
the native Brits who need to learn and respect those who are 
different.Immigrants are also human beings with social, emotional and spiritual 
needs and demands. They are not just economics for the economic prosperity. 

 
British children in Spain come with this mentality, wanting to keep themselves 
to themselves and feel no obligation to integrate into Spanish way of life. The 
Brits are the most problematic minority group in Spanish schools. They are worst 
at learning the host language and integrating into school life than any other 
nationality in Spain's state schools. They have negative attitudes towards 
integration. They carry a strong sense of English linguistic superiority. They 
were embarrassed to speak Spanish because the other students laughed at them. 
Brit children had very little or no concept of Spanish culture or social life. 
They watched UK TVs and English language radios. Their parents do not speak 
Spanish nor have Spanish friends. In English ghettos, Spaniards fear to tread. 
They have no interest in being part of Spanish society. 

Iftikhar Ahmad


      
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