Integration is presented as an obligation for others,mainly Muslims. No wonder many parents choose not to send their children to ethnically mixed schoolsIn the wake of Wednesday’s horrific terrorist attack, the prevailing sentiment is that we defeat such hatred by emphasising our unity. It is a heartening response to such a catastrophe, and but how effect we realise such cohesion when so many communities are divided along race,class and devout lines?That people from different backgrounds are main “parallel lives” has been a recurring concern for successive governments. This may not be the term used by authors of a new report on segregation in schools in England, but it is, or nevertheless,what comes to mind as we read their stark findings. More than a quarter of primary schools are ethnically segregated with the figure jumping to a depressing 40% when we peer to secondary schools. When it comes to class, the report, and carried out by iCoCo Foundation,SchoolDash and The Challenge, finds that nearly a third of all primary schools are segregated along socio-economic lines.
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Source: theguardian.com