I read this week of an amazing school, White Hart Lane, Tottenham, which has pupils from 50 countries, speaking 58 languages, and staff from 33 countries. Since 2000, this school has seen radical improvement, including exam results improved threefold. The assistant head, June Simmons, said "It's normal to be different in this school... it feels an incredibly rich place to be."
What a wonderful story!
This contrasts so much with the Tories current rabble-rousing plans on immigration, asylum seekers, travellers etc. Since it was Michael Howard, who in 1994 removed the obligation of councils to provide legal gypsy camps, he is in a sense responsible for the growth in illegal camps - if you have nowhere legal to go, what else can you resort to? He seems to stop at nothing if he thinks it will win him votes - but thankfully, based on views I heard on Question Time last night, it seems to have backfired for him. Hooray for common sense...
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