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This year’s school census found that 27 primaries and 4 secondaries in England were entirely non-white, according to government figures.
The finding follows a warning from Britain’s race watchdog that schools are becoming increasingly segregated along racial lines.
Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, who has claimed that Britain is “sleepwalking into segregation”, said last year that there was a disturbing trend for schools to become either mainly white or mainly black.
He pinned the blame on the phenomenon of “white flight” from racially mixed areas, saying: “To put it crudely, white parents, particularly, are unhappy about putting children in schools where they think their children are going to be in a minority.”
The new figures, released under the Freedom of Information Act, show that entirely non-white schools can be found in 10 education authority areas: Bradford, Kirklees and Calderdale in West Yorkshire; Lancashire, Oldham and Blackburn; the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Ealing and Hillingdon; and Birmingham.
Earlier research carried out at Bristol University found that schools were more segregated than the communities around them.
In one London borough 17 schools had more than 90 per cent Bangladeshi pupils, while nine others had fewer than 10 per cent.
Commenting on the earlier research, Mr Phillips said: “We think this is a serious problem because it does not help to prepare the children in those schools for the real world, to interact with people who are not like themselves.”
The National Association of Head Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers have raised concerns about the situation, with the latter calling for extra funds to “meet the extra educational demands on schools brought about by the recent influx of children of refugee and EU migrant families”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1925207/Schools-made-up-of-only-ethnic-minorities.html
Actually, the number is quite small. fewer than I’d have imagined. It’s not good for racial integration but it’s really an accident of demographics. I dare say it would be possible to find a small primary school somewhere that, although being a mixed school, has all girls because there happen to be no boys who go there!
More worrying is the the growing self-imposed separateness of parts of the muslim community. But I see it slightly differently as I see many British muslims as victims, a prisoner population, held captive by a foreign power, islam, that they can’t quite break away from. We don’t know how many reluctant muslims there are in the west, or indeed, in the world, because they are scared to speak out.
If they desert islam they are on their own, because they will be shunned by their own communities and families but still seen as muslims by non-muslims. We all need an identity and for many of these people there is no alternative identy on offer.
It’s similar to Jews who came to Britain during the 1930’s to escape persecution by the Nazis in Germany, only to be treated as ‘enemy’ Germans here when war broke out.
how many non coloured or ethnic schools are there ?
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