Two apparently contradictory facts:
1. Most of the immigrants to the UK are harder working, more contientous and more motivated by success than the indigenous population.
2. Standards in UK schools are slipping under the weight of a landslide of immigrants.
OK - so partly this could just be me reading the Guardian one day, and the Mail the next. But it does seem inconsistent that the type of people who would up sticks and relocate their entire family half way across Europe - or the world - and be prepared to work all the hours in the day, all for the chance of a better life would then sit idly by as their kids throw away this potential life-changing advantage by skiving off lessons and not doing their homework.
So, whats causing the decline in school standards?
Maybe its just that there are increasing numbers of children with foreign names that don't translate and simply sound so funny in English that today's teachers never actually get to the end of each reading of the register without the entire class dissolving into fits of hysterical sniggering and outright laughter?
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