The Telegraph – Javier Espinoza
“More than 300 different languages are now spoken in British schools with English-speaking pupils becoming a minority in hundreds of classrooms, a new investigation has revealed. There are 1.1 million children who speak 311 dialects and in some schools English speakers are the minority, the inquiry revealed. In other schools, no pupil has English as a first language, a Daily Express investigation based on Department for Education data showed. The revelations follow reports earlier this week that the overall number of pupils in state-funded schools in England is projected to increase by 13 per cent to roughly 8.2 million as a result of a baby boom and immigration. In one school 342 of the 360 pupils say Punjabi is their first language while just six are recorded as speaking English, the report said.”(more)