Posted on 04/25/2007 10:58:59 AM PDT by blam
Schools becoming ethnic and religious ghettos
By Nick Britten
Last Updated: 4:15am BST 25/04/2007
Cultural diversity in inner-city schools is failing with many becoming so polarised that they are dominated by one racial or religious group, a damning report will claim.
Race Equality Sandwell in the West Midlands, claims that schools in the region are becoming "all-white" or "all-Asian" despite drawing from multi-ethnic catchment areas.
Derrick Campbell, the chief executive of RES, said he was "extremely concerned" that children will leave school unable to fit into a diverse society. "My biggest worry is that schools and parents are propagating the notion of segregation," he said.
The report, to be published next week, covers schools across the West Midlands. It looked at admissions policies, catchment areas and wider socio-economic influences.
Mr Campbell said there were examples of neighbouring schools having an unnecessarily separate ethnic mix. It was caused by a range of factors, including parents wanting their children to be with those of a similar faith or background and schools failing to ensure a proper mix in their admissions policies.
He said: "Schools are becoming ghettos divided by race and it is having a negative effect on young people.
"The Government needs to restrict parental choice to ensure that the intake policy gives a fair chance and opportunities for schools to reflect the make up of the community."
He said the report found that while there was a growing segregation between white and Asian children, black Afro-Caribbean pupils tended to mix well with both.
Allison Fraser, the chief executive of Sandwell council, said the council was "committed to building and strengthening good community relations".
A Birmingham City Council spokesman said: "When parents apply for a school place at either level we recommend that they list their nearest community school as one of their references, therefore in many cases the community a pupil lives in will be reflected in the classroom."
Maybe we’ll get a remake of To Sir With Love to handle this one.
We are the government. We know how to raise your children best. After all, we have "educators" and sociologists.
Of course, we all know who can't be trusted to play the white man with Johnny Foreigner: it's the working class, isn't it? That idle, boozed-up, aggressive white working class who are the only thing standing between this divided hellhole and life as one long Nescafe ad, with the residents of Hampstead giving high-fives to cheery old African gents in the dappled sunlight. That the working class might have a thoroughly legitimate reason for becoming more agitated about immigration than the tolerant middle class, with their health insurance, private schools and comfy cars, is never considered by these usually oh-so-caring types. Instead, anti-racism has become yet another stick for the ruling class to beat the working class with. - Julie Burchill
Right, Muslims “technically” from some part of Asia.
They live in an insular group inside a tolerant, multicultural society.
‘I expect ‘Asian’ in this article means ‘Muslim.’’
Not necessarily - Birmigham has more Hindu and Sikh population than it does muslim.
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