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I have just found this site and am amazed by some of the correspondence on here, it seems to be very baised, sometimes by language. One of your correspondents is very much inclined to want bi-lingual interaction, I think its an excellent idea, but where it is an open forum, it should remembered most ordinary people working class of my generation, were not given the oppotunity of a universtity education or even a good secondary education during the war years, so cannot understand any of these foreign languages, so this makes it practically a closed shop for us, this doesn't mean to say that we are a load of idiots,so please could we have letters in English.About the Religious Schools. I sent my 3 children to Church of England Schools, because of the standards of education and the disipline,they all did very well there, I have one who is District Nurse and another who is a policeman.The understanding at the time was that a percentage of the intake was from other religions, so there some intergration, however there were no Roman Catholics as they had there own schools who would not take heretics. Parents fought tooth and nail to get their children places at these schools. What is now suggested about religious schools in some ways I think is wrong.At one of my Grandchildrens schools are 18 different nationalities, some Muslim,what about the others, the Bhuddists, Orthadox and Jews?Where in this arrangment do Caucian children come, the bottom of the pile? It seems that these children have to do the best they can in these circumstances, if the teachers have to teach English to the others, because they can only understand their own language when they enter the primary schools, because the mothers do not speak English, somebody has to lose out. It is only natural that people of the same religion and nationality will congregate together in the same area where there is work and housing, but I think that they really dont want to intergrate too far.You can say that when it was the British Empire it was the same in reverse, we built towns, churches and communities, and by God aren't we paying for what our forebears did now.
Mrs. B. Holmes ● 6473d0 Comments