Monday - July 13, 2009

The Headline is:  Segregation in schools is fueled by ‘White Flight.’ Look familiar?

Oh, now this is a huge surprise. Aren’t you all surprised too? Ppl of like background and something in common (language too?) wanting to be among their own.
Not to mention a better environment for their offspring. 

Segregation in schools fuelled by ‘white flight’

Warwick Mansell and Polly Curtis The Guardian, Friday 10 July 2009

Schools in parts of England are becoming increasingly segregated, deserted by white parents if they find their children becoming outnumbered by pupils from ethnic minorities, a report by a think tank set up to promote community cohesion has warned.

Councils should consider allocating school places using lotteries in some inner-city areas to tackle a growing phenomenon of “white flight” in the education system, the Institute of Community Cohesion (iCoCo) said.

Its study, which focused on 13 local areas including Bolton, Sunderland, Oldham, Hounslow and Bristol, concluded: “Many of the schools and colleges in the areas we have studied are segregated to a greater or lesser extent and the evidence available to us at a local level suggested that this was generally worsening over recent years.

“This reflects in part residential segregation, but it also reflects parental choice, despite the fact that most people we spoke to in focus groups wanted their children to have a mixed education. Parental choice tended to push people to what they saw as the safe option, where children with similar backgrounds went.”

It added: “We heard strong evidence of ‘white flight’ in a number of areas.”

ICoCo was set up in 2005 to research and promote community relations. Nick Johnson, its director of policy and author of the report, said: “‘White flight’ is certainly happening in specific areas of England. In the case of one school in Blackburn, once the number of non-white pupils got above 60%, white parents started saying they did not want their kids being the odd ones out.” Segregation reduced the chance for young people to mix with their peers from different backgrounds, said the report.

Johnson added that councils should consider allocating school places by lottery, a scheme that has been trialled at some schools in Brighton. “If you did that in Blackburn or Bolton or Oldham, it would have a dramatic effect on the schools’ composition ... if you accept the argument that all forms of segregation in education are bad, you do need to do something about it,” he said.

(turns out however that not all forms are bad. Are they? For example, studies have reported that girls do better in all girl schools. You may argue with that I suppose but that’s what’s being claimed. And many interviews with younger girls seem to bear it out. On the other hand, forced integration due to social engineering works against human nature. And I doubt it makes many friends.)

The report found that less popular schools with spare places sometimes admitted large numbers of immigrant pupils in a short time. It cited the case of an unnamed school at which, at the end of 2005, 85% of pupils were white British. Over the next two terms, pupils from 15 to 20 Somali families were admitted.

“Many white parents reacted negatively, arguing that their children were being disadvantaged by large numbers of non-English speakers. By September 2006, 60 white children had been removed from the school ... and the percentage of black and minority ethnic pupils rose to 45%. But many white families stayed,” the report said.

(Right. “many families stayed.” Wanna bet those were the unfortunates that either could not afford to move, or were themselves slaves to the left and PC)

Researchers also found evidence of pupils of different ethnicities not mixing even when they were sharing classes and playgrounds.

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Posted by peiper     on 07/13/2009 at 07:08 AM   
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