TEACHERS last night gave a guarded backing to calls for immigrant children who cannot speak English properly to be "segregated" in our classrooms.
This followed a Fine Gael call yesterday for the Government to separate immigrant children with poor language skills from the rest of their classmates.
The party’s education spokesman, Brian Hayes, said children should not be put into a mainstream class until they have a competence for it.
He added: “And if that requires segregation, well then we have got to segregate the child in the best interests of that child.”
He said he was also aware that many parents were frustrated at the effect the lack of segregation was having on the education of their Englishspeaking children.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/teachers-back-call-to-segregate-immigrants-1458490.html
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