[quote]A KIDDERMINSTER school faced a fierce backlash as parents voted with their feet after only non-English speaking children were taken on a trip.
Angry mums and dads have branded St Mary's C of E Primary School as "discriminating" as native-speaking pupils were denied a visit to Rays Farm, near Bridgnorth, while children who speak English as a second language were taken at the expense of tax payers.[/quote]
Source [url]http://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/11507011.Parents__fury_after__discriminating__school_trip/?ref=fbshr[/url]
So they try to integrate non-English speaking children by excluding native-speaking pupils? How is that supposed to work? You could just have both of them on the trip, you know? Both types of kids would learn that they aren't so different from each other and we will have less bigots that way in the future.
i can't help but feel this has been twisted into a race issue when it was a class trip for a english as second language class or something like that, you know, so you don't have 60+ pupils going to a farm. makes it more relevant to the class as you can teach them english skills and farm animals and all that shit instead of having a ton of kids to manage which would remove the education value from the trip
The people complaining sound a lot like the "Why should we have a black history month but not a white history month?" people.
So the school used a trip to help the children who were learning English as a second language and didn't take the kids who already knew how to speak English. So fucking what? Oh no my child has been discriminated against because they don't need this, what's next, complaining that only the students who don't do as well get remedial lessons?
"I feel discriminated because my sons maths class wasn't allowed to go on the history trip."
Then then have the cheek to bring the tax argument in, which is hella fucking ironic.
wow this is stupid as fuck, so they take a bilingual class on a trip to help them improve their langauge and somehow that's discriminating against english kids? i dunno if they really need to learn how to speak english if it's their first language??
[quote]at the expense of tax payers.[/quote]
[I]Everything[/I] at a school is done at the expense of tax payers, that's why you don't have to pay for (most) schools.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;46147737][I]Everything[/I] at a school is done at the expense of tax payers, that's why you don't have to pay for (most) schools.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but people need to feel invested to be more outraged. That's [i]my[/i] 0.00000000000000001 cent paying for part of this thing I'm outraged over, after all.
[QUOTE=Lachz0r;46147603]wow this is stupid as fuck, so they take a bilingual class on a trip to help them improve their langauge and somehow that's discriminating against english kids? i dunno if they really need to learn how to speak english if it's their first language??[/QUOTE]
They don't, because every single trip done in school has to have some "education value" to it. We took a trip to the Cadinal's Busch Stadium in 5th grade and we had to visit the Bowling Hall of Fame across the street to make sure we actually learned something. Even the trips to the zoo were kinda sorta educational because of the learning opportunities there, but no learning really happens anyways. Who would want to go to a farm anyways? It isn't fun unless you get to shoot guns, ride horses, or fish, and I'm sure these kids didn't get to do 2/3 or 3/3 of these.
we always had to pay for school trips ourselves
I don't see a problem
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