TEACHERS last night gave a guarded backing to calls for immigrant children who cannot speak English properly to be "segregated" in our classrooms.
This followed a Fine Gael call yesterday for the Government to separate immigrant children with poor language skills from the rest of their classmates.
The party’s education spokesman, Brian Hayes, said children should not be put into a mainstream class until they have a competence for it.
He added: “And if that requires segregation, well then we have got to segregate the child in the best interests of that child.”
He said he was also aware that many parents were frustrated at the effect the lack of segregation was having on the education of their Englishspeaking children.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/teachers-back-call-to-segregate-immigrants-1458490.html
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Catholic Church supports ethnic integration in our schools
A radical plan to end 'white flight' from urban schools throughout the country has been put forward by the Catholic education authorities.
The Catholic Primary School Management Association accused some parents of bypassing their local school because they do not want their children to be educated alongside ethnic minorities.
CPSMA Secretary Monsignor Dan O'Connor criticised the minority of schools that told parents whose first language was not English that schools elsewhere had language support services.
Equally, some schools were suggesting to parents of special needs children that they take them elsewhere, he said.
The proposal follows comments by Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, who in April publicly criticised "good Catholic parents" -- who made decisions with their feet or with their "four-wheel drives" to opt out of diversity in schools.
Dr Martin disclosed recently that he had received racist and quasi-racist mail after he announced a decision to reserve places in two Dublin schools for children of immigrants.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/church-bids-to-halt-white-flight-1429355.html
The Catholic Primary School Management Association accused some parents of bypassing their local school because they do not want their children to be educated alongside ethnic minorities.
CPSMA Secretary Monsignor Dan O'Connor criticised the minority of schools that told parents whose first language was not English that schools elsewhere had language support services.
Equally, some schools were suggesting to parents of special needs children that they take them elsewhere, he said.
The proposal follows comments by Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, who in April publicly criticised "good Catholic parents" -- who made decisions with their feet or with their "four-wheel drives" to opt out of diversity in schools.
Dr Martin disclosed recently that he had received racist and quasi-racist mail after he announced a decision to reserve places in two Dublin schools for children of immigrants.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/church-bids-to-halt-white-flight-1429355.html
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