DAR AL HARB - U.K.: MOSLEM MOM'S SHOULD SPEAK ENGLISH AT HOME, THEY ARE STUNTING THEIR CHILDREN'S LITERACY LEVELS

Muslim mums told to speak English at home
Julie Henry,
Education Correspondent,
Sunday Telegraph

Muslim mothers who do not speak English at home are stunting their children's literacy levels, one of the Government's most influential education advisers said last night.

Sir Cyril Taylor, the chairman of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, said that the failure of parents to speak English at home was a key reason why some schools were at the bottom of newly-published-league tables.

The problem, described by Sir Cyril as a "major issue", should be addressed by a national campaign to encourage the mothers of ethnic minority children to attend English classes, he said. "A very high proportion of the mothers come from Bangladesh and Pakistan, not speaking English when they arrive through arranged marriages," he added.

"If the child does not speak English at home, if it is not the language of conversation with their mother or father, that clearly has an influence. It is a major cause of lower results in English."

Official figures show that at least half the children in more than 1,000 primary schools in England do not have English as their first language. Six per cent of primaries and more than a third of secondary schools are heading for, or already have, a majority of children with English as a second language. In London, English is a foreign language for the majority of children in more than half of primary schools.

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England's future exposed by the last paragraph, it appears that Prince William is not going to be ruling over native Brits for any length of time...

More than half of the children in 1000 primary schools do not speak English as their primary language, majority are from Pakistan & Bangladesh...

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