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Originally Posted by freezin

Well I would. They show a bias towards the "immigration is good" line of thought in my view. But it seems the headmaster did talk to the press, but the BBC either didn't interview him or chose not to report his comments. After what the Mail had said, if there was a different side to the story, and if it was to report on the story at all, I think the BBC had a duty as our publicly funded broadcaster to present both sides of the matter. There is no reason why the other children should have given interviews. They do of course have a right to their privacy if they and their parents want it. (And how do you know they were girls?)

Exactly, there is no reason why the others should talk to the media, yet as a consiquence, we only have one side of the story. You can assume that what has been reported covers everything if you like, I'll stick with keeping an open mind and acknowledge that there are aspects of what happened which we don't know about.

Originally Posted by freezin

We know it happens, but no one complained over the reporting of this case. And the anti-racist lobby is not normally reluctant to make capital out of those it thinks are racists.

How would the "anti-racist lobby" (you say that like it's a bad thing actually, do you believe it's bad to lobby against racism?) know what occured if the others involved aren't giving interviews?
You can't just write to the PCC and say "I don't like that article" and expect them to do something about it.
Would they have UKIP's magic crystal ball perhaps?
The one which tells them that immigration will continue at a constant rate until the end of time.
Are you using your husband's crystal ball to see if anyone has complaned to the PCC or not?
How exactly would you know unless the media printed a retraction, which is only one of many outcomes from a complaint to the PCC?

Originally Posted by freezin

I didn't say she couldn't possibly be either, and indeed I allowed for the fact that she could be, but you are not even willing to give her the benefit of the doubt despite the police, who take "hate crimes very seriously" dropping the case and no one saying that she was wrong in her assertion of the launguage barrier, not even via the BBC. Innocent until proven guilty in your eyes?

Hang on, if you're prepaired to believe she is a racist liar, what's your point?
I've not said she is a racist liar, I've not said the event didn't take place. If you have no problem with being prepaired to believe she is actually a racist liar, then what are you going on about?

Originally Posted by freezin

That's very laudable, sincerely. May I ask in what capacity have you been working with her?

I was a classmate, can't remember exactly what we were working on, it's about 20 years ago.
I could have said "Waa waa waaa I don't want to work with the girl who doesn't speak" or I could have gotten on with the task and hand and given her the confidence to find her voice, which thankfully happened, at least until some scrote over heard her and mocked her.

Originally Posted by freezin

Integration into mainstream education is all very well for those with poor English skills, but it doesn't help the academic education of those who already speak English proficiently enough to understand the lesson. I don't believe segregation in schools helps community cohesion or integration, but schools are already becoming segregated anyway.

So, there's a group of 6 pupils, 2 can speak english, can we assume 1 can speak both english and urdu while 4 can only speak urdu? (that's urdo the language, not to be mistaken for Locky's Hurdo, which we think is a hairstyle in Liverpool)
So, rather than work as a team, helping her fellow students and learning important life skills from it, you think it's ok that she went "waa waa waa miss it's too hard to actually do any work, I can't be bovvered to work with these that can't speak english"
Exactly how is that helping people integrate?
In her position, I would have used the bilingual student to translate, thus not only teaching the other 4 english language skills, but also learn some urdu at the same time.
But hey, learning can be hard, and it's not for everyone right?