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English-speaking pupils are a minority in inner-city London primary schools | Mail Online
Children who speak English as their first language are now a minority in inner-city London primary schools, official figures showed yesterday.
Youngsters with a different mother tongue form a majority in primaries in 13 out of 33 London boroughs and in nearby Slough.
In inner London, 54 per cent of primary pupils and 48.5 per cent in secondary institutions do not speak English as their first language. This amounts to an astonishing 159,340 children.
Across the country, English is a foreign language to more than one in seven primary youngsters - almost half a million.
My profession needs a better voice than these morons
It makes me cringe to see them arguing so poorly for a pay rise, chanting like yobs on a football terrace to end SATs and presenting themselves like comedy grotesques. Teachers deserve a better voice than the morons in the NUT.
Home schooling - a vision of the future? - Telegraph
As Essex County Council funds home schooling, parents who teach their own children are finally being recognised as pioneers says one father who educated his daughter
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