Is ethnic segregation in schools a problem?

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The Commission for Racial Equality has labelled British schools as 'time bombs' of racial tension. The commission's policy director has said that "if a Muslim child is educated in a school where the vast majority of other children are also Muslim, how can we expect him to work, live and interact with people from other cultures when he leaves school?" Do you think that segregation of ethnicities could be a 'time bomb' waiting to explode? Or is it an exaggeration?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6594911.s tm

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The quote is from the Commission for Racial Equality policy director Nick Johnson. He is either very stupid or a racist to make his comments the way he does.

To be a Muslim is to follow a particular religious doctrine it has nothing to do with race.

Try substiituting Catholic or Jewish etc for Muslim in his quote.

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No it is not an exaggeration. Separation of the races would detrimental to racial harmony. Evenso, there are still problems in multi-racial schools such as those in the Burnley and Pendle Area in Lancashire. After the race riots in Burnley a few years ago, Lancashire Education Auth. are trying to bring racial harmony by building new schools.This was the subject of a Radio 4 programme a few weeks ago. I am a teacher and I know what is really going on.This is not working. The pupils stick to their own race. White children are treated differently in that any racist action against them is ignored but if it were against an Asian it is taken up. At Marsden Heights in Brierfied the Asian boys, if insulted will ring their mates up on their mobiles and a gang will come up from the other schoolsite (Elland was Mansfield) and wait for them outside the gate. this happened a few weeks ago. It was reported in two local papers as an attack on a boy outside HIbson rd site ( Marsden Heights School, Was\Edge End) by 4 youths. The truth was that a white boy was attacked by 20 Asian youths three of which were identified as having come specially up from the other site. The boy's head was stamped on and he went to hospital to be released later. Thankfully an Asian boy tried to pull them off. It was a racist attack but not reported as such because he was white and the head teacher did a good job on "damage limitation" as he called it. On the other hand race was mentioned when a white couple were accused in court of threatening Asian pupils in the same school--- see? If it's against the Asians it's reported, if it's against the whites it is not. . There is no harmony between pupils of different races. The whole thing is made worse by the white pupils being discriminated against.
Habbergham High in Burnley-- four Asian pupils urinated on a white boy , filmed it on their mobiles and posted it on the iinternet. None of this was in the press.
I have had enough.

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