British Educational Standards Continue Their Downfall

In a move which is in keeping with the increasing Third World makeup of British schools, traditional subjects such as history and geography are to be axed in the latest overhaul of primary education.

According to the new plan, pupils will spend more time learning how to deal with ‘deep societal concerns’ such as violence, drug abuse, obesity, teenage pregnancy and debt.

History, geography and religious education will be merged into ‘human, social and environmental’ studies.

The blueprint was drawn up by former Ofsted chief Sir Jim Rose following a request from Children’s Secretary Ed Balls. The plans are likely to come into force in 2011.

Schools that are judged to do well at promoting pupils’ ‘wellbeing’ may score good grades even if their exam results are middling or poor.

This is because the annual ’school report cards’ will reflect truancy levels, pupil behaviour and how healthy schools keep children.

White British children are now a minority in almost a fifth of education authorities in England, official figures issued in 2007 have shown.

They are outnumbered at primary and secondary schools in 29 of the 150 local education authority areas, including Birmingham, Leicester, Luton, Slough and most London boroughs.

In some parts of the capital, children from ethnic minority families account for more than nine in 10 school places.

Figures from the Department for Children, Schools and Families showed that last year saw the biggest year-on-year increase in pupils from ethnic minorities.

Across the country, they account for almost 22 percent of pupils at primary school compared to 20.6 percent last year. At secondary level, numbers rose at a similar rate, to 17.7 percent.

In all, about one in eight pupils — some 800,000 — do not speak English as a first language and numbers are thought to have doubled in the past decade.

Across inner and outer London, black and Asian pupils outnumber white British children by about six to four. In secondary schools in Brent, north-west London, which is one of the capital’s most multicultural boroughs, only seven percent of pupils were of white British origin last year, figures show. A further 36 percent were classed as Asian and 24 percent were black.

In Tower Hamlets, east London, less than 15 percent of primary school children were classed as white British, compared to 63 percent Bangladeshi Asian.

In Birmingham, which has around 300 schools, 57 percent of primary and 52 percent of secondary pupils are from non-white British families. In Leicester, Luton and Slough white British pupils were also in a minority at both primary and secondary level.

More than 30 state schools in England are made up solely of ethnic minority pupils with no white children on the roll, according to government figures.

The schools, which were not identified, are likely to include England’s nine state Muslim schools and two state Sikh schools. The remaining 20, all primaries, are likely to be in areas with large ethnic minorities.

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.

In one London borough 17 schools had more than 90 percent Bangladeshi pupils, while nine others had fewer than 10 percent.

Source: bnp.org.uk