What Was So Wrong About This, It Is Time We Thought About Our Own?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3989356/Theresa-s-Home-Office-wanted-send-children-illegal-immigrants-bottom-list-school-places.html

[agchristie]

Don't forget those that were fleeing all sorts of troubles who went to Finland and soon left in planefuls since there was far worse to contend with, such as the locals renowned aloofness, bad weather and unpalatable food....

[hereIam]

Good post ag.

[Prudie]

I think those that are genuinely fleeing atrocities would be welcomed - legally. It's the thousands that fancy a quick route to an easier life with free handouts that have spoilt it for the real needy.

[Lunol]

"It's the thousands that fancy a quick route to an easier life with free handouts that have spoilt it for the real needy."

I'm guessing that they've learnt very well from watching our politicians.

[Berniecuddles2]

well said prudie thats why they travel all through europe to get to " the promised land of handouts"

[Prudie]

I suspect they've learnt it very well from watching our pinky forgive-all society, their mates already here will have undoubtedly told them.

[youngmafbog]

//It's fine as long as no-one moans in ten years time about uneducated immigrant teenagers causing trouble and failing to get jobs because no-one has offered any education - academic or cultural.//

They are here illegally so that wont be a problem once they have been repatriated.

And who has said they wont be educated, this is more about British people have first dab on places, this lot will have to go where is left. Just what is wrong with that?

[ummmm]

The way I look at it rightly or wrongly, why should they jump the list? Why should people who have worked and paid into the system risk having to take their children to a further away school. It doesn't mean a worse school, just not the closest.

[anotheoldgit]

agchristie

/// Don't forget those that were fleeing all sorts of troubles who went to Finland and soon left in planefuls since there was far worse to contend with, such as the locals renowned aloofness, bad weather and unpalatable food.... ///

They also weren't too happy in Scotland.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3706625/Syrian-refugees-settled-remote-Scottish-island-complain-depressed-area-old-people-people-come-die.html

[anotheoldgit]

Even Obama said that we should go to the back of the queue, so what is wrong with illegals going to the back on the queue?

[fiction-factory]

Well that's odd- the first two times I tried to answer this there was answer box- just a ' submit' button.

The starting point should be to ask why people are here illegally and is enough being done to stop it.
If they are known to be illegal immigrants the priority should be to examine whether they should be allowed to remain or (more likely?) be deported. If the process is likely to take a few months or the prospects of being allowed to stay are assessed at less than say 20% then maybe free education should not be available until a decision on remaining has been made. If the process is likely to take a year or two – or if the prospects of being allowed to stay are assessed at being more than say 80% then it seems right to try to take an interest in the welfare of the children and help them integrate (inasmuch as some do) and educate them as soon as possible. Once a decision has been made that some can stay they become ‘legal’ and should be able to join schools on the same basis as others who are here legally.

I think one of the problems with the initial suggestion was that schools are not really equipped to assess whether applicants are entitled to be here