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Immigrant pupils ‘lack specialist help with English’ Well I never , who would have thought it.

'' the numbers involved - 3000 foreign national children have enrolled in schools since 2005 from more than 100 countries speaking 86 languages.'' The lefty, multicultural, diehard zealots have turned Scotland into a '' Polyglot boarding house for the riff raff of the world '' as Teddy Rooselvelt said.

''The council employs 140 specialist staff at a cost of over £5m'' Scottish taxpayers money, nice work if you can get it.

''Additional funding has to come from the Scottish Government." Why. The liebour cooncil brought the immigrants here and they want the Scots Governmeent to clean up the mess.

funny enough I get no specialist help with mandarin. I can pay for it if i wish. so can immigrants to UK end of story.

The article is not clear enough, I though overseas pupils had to do a 3 month English course before they went to normal state school and there after they got some post school support. I could see a problem with some kids in a class not speaking English and a load of translators floating about them - there might not be enough room.

Lobeydosser, You're absolutely right in explaining what is supposed to happen. Unfortunately however, the specialist units are full to capacity and so the children, who have by law to be schooled, simply have to be enrolled in a normal school and the teacher left to cope as best as they can with them. Not an ideal situation for anybody and vastly increased resources need to be made available to support schools in areas with high immigrant populations.

I can see the need for children who have come here as refugees and asylums seekers and need extra tuition in English, but the children of migrant workers? The article states: Officials have called on the Scottish Government to provide extra money and the council has drawn up plans to re-organise its services. A report outlining the changes will go to the council's executive committee on Friday. The report states: "The distribution of bilingual teachers is inequitable and not a good use of council staffing resources." What about bilingual teachers for Deaf Scottish children? Where are they? What funds are being made available for teaching Deaf Scottish children in BSL? Why do the authorities not do more? Is it because Deaf people cannot shout about their issues? And for tohse who think this is a pun - it is not.

Thanks Olivia, I was not aware of the scale of the problem. I do know of a Polish teacher whose English is excellent working a food processing factory, a bit of a waste of excellent talent. But unfortunately I am sure there are quite a few like that earning about £6 an hour. So if the educators can get round HR departments in some factories and persuade them to release teachers, they may come up with some extra resource - providing it can be properly funded.

Wee calculation. 9,500 immigrant schoolchildren in Glasgow. 30 immigrant schoolchildren make up one school class. 316 classrooms required to accommodate 9,500 immigrant schoolchildren. Say, 20 classrooms per school. Phew - we need to build 16 new schools in Glasgow

Blockem All the rich parents are taking their kids out of the comprehensives and putting them in private schools. The same mistakes that happened in America, England, France and Holland will happen here. As night follows day. it will happen. You can be rest assurred of that

''There's none so blind as those who will not see.''

Blockem This will be my last comment on the herald. IM BORED. The herald and Scotland is infested by lefty liberals and do gooders and multicultural zealos. Its very very very depressing to read these middle class twits wittering on and on and on about how wonderful the '' multicultural society'' is. They never talk about practicallities, like where is the money going to come from. Its beyond their ken. Multiculturalism means many cultures, A recipe for disaster. A tower of Babel.

''In this country in fifteen or twenty years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man." I can already hear the chorus of execration.'' Enoch Powell 1968

'' itis like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.'' Enoch Powell

Blockem , Scunnert and myself are the people who are on the same wavelength. The rest who post bland comments are the sheep. We are tilting at windmills. So Im going to do a Pontius Pilate and wash my hands of the lefty herald. IM BORED.

Wullie .... Too many wee councillors, MSPs, MPs sitting in their wee offices, tremblin‘ in their shoes, terrified to speak out in case they get called racists. The lefties have been using the racist threat for years and it’s been working. UKIP and the BNP will start to challenge the wee political fearties for their wee offices and big salary and expense accounts. (It‘s already happening in London - even George Galloway admits it) The present situation cannot continue. When the wee fearties see their cushy jobs and money under threat, they’ll be forced to make a move. Somewhere people have got to get up off their ars*s and complain - although as I‘ve already said on this forum - if parents will not stand up and fight for their own kids - we would be as well giving the immigrants our bloody country - for free as usual You’ll be back Wullie. You’re needed here.

The labour party councillors who brought these foreigners to Glasgow should be surcharged to pay for them.

So the tax payer will have to fund English lessons for illegals who nearly always have to travel through France, Spain, Germany etc to get here. Stop welfare payments (Socialism) and you'll see an immediate end to the raping of our country. In fact, you'll see a mass exodus of economic scroungers. True patriots, including many genuine immigrants and asylum seekers, can then rebuild our great country. EU wipes England off the map - as Gordon Brown flies the flag of St George over Downing Street Last updated at 00:52am on 24.04.08 Vote UKIP!

School kids will learn English very quickly just by being in the school environment. No need for any additional resources.

School kids will learn English very quickly just by being in the school environment. No need for any additional resources.

School kids will learn English very quickly just by being in the school environment. No need for any additional resources.

[quote][bold]Wullie[/bold] wrote: Blockem , Scunnert and myself are the people who are on the same wavelength. The rest who post bland comments are the sheep. We are tilting at windmills. So Im going to do a Pontius Pilate and wash my hands of the lefty herald. IM BORED.[/quote] Yes little willie put your wellies on and run away to your sheep. You are boring. Coward.

[quote][bold]BLOCKEM.[/bold] wrote: [quote][bold]Wullie[/bold] wrote: Blockem , Scunnert and myself are the people who are on the same wavelength. The rest who post bland comments are the sheep. We are tilting at windmills. So Im going to do a Pontius Pilate and wash my hands of the lefty herald. IM BORED.[/quote] Yes little willie put your wellies on and run away to your sheep. You are boring. Coward.[/quote] I think the 3 year old bairn, Michael Woods of Drumchapel is pretending to be BLOCKEM. Very sad.

im sure some of the indigenous pupils in glasgow schools have probelms with speaking english

Salaam Thanks for your thought provoking response. Muslim schools are not only faith schools but they are more or less bilingual schools. Bilingual Muslim children need to learn standard English to follow the National Curriculum and go for higher studies and research to serve humanity. They need to be well versed in Arabic to recite and understand the Holy Quran. They need to be well versed in Urdu and other community languages to keep in touch with their cultural roots and enjoy the beauty of their literature and poetry. Bilingualism is an asset but the British schooling regards it as a problem. A Muslim is a citizen of this tiny global village. He/she does not want to become notoriously monolingual Brit. Pakistan is only seven hours from London and majority of British Muslims are from Pakistan. More than third of British Muslim have no qualifications. British school system has been failing large number of Muslims children for the last 60 years. Muslim scholars see the pursuit of knowledge as a duty, with the Quran containing several verses to the rewards of learning. 33% of British Muslims of working age have no qualifications and Muslims are also the least likely to have degrees or equivalent qualifications. Most of estimated 500,000 Muslim school-aged pupils in England and Wales are educated in the state system with non-Muslim monolingual teachers. Majority of them are underachievers because they are at a wrong place at a wrong time. Bilingual Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers during their developmental periods. There is no place for a non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school. As far as higher education is concerned, Muslim students can be educated with others. Let Muslim community educate its own children so that they can develop their own Islamic, cultural and linguistic identities and become usefull members of the British society rather than becoming a buden. We are living in an English speaking country and English is an international language, therefore, we want our children to learn and be well versed in standard English and at the same time well versed in Arabic, Urdu and other community languages. Is there anything wrong with this approach?

" More than third of British Muslim have no qualifications. British school system has been failing large number of Muslims children for the last 60 years " says ifthikar why keep inflicting this victim mentality on your fellow muslims? Other ethnic minorities seem to cope fine, and have on average better educational achievements. Surely if there was more integration from muslim communities, the rest of the UK wouldnt "fail" muslim children.