General Discussion
The comments below the article make better reading than the article itself which is nothing short of **** sorry but words fail me.
I've just looked up the Ofsted report in question (it's online - just type in Payhembury Primary Ofsted report and you'll find it).
Can't see anywhere that it says the school is 'too white' although it does say that it draws from a white rural community. Which it does. Matter of fact.
One of the recommendations for improvement in the school is for an awareness of cultures other than the one to which the children are used. Both within this country and abroad. What's the problem? For the life of me I cannot see what The Mail is getting so steamed up about.
To visit an ethnically mixed school in a very urban area seems the logical step.
I bet most of the students at DCC would be defined and would define themselves as white. They most certainly come from Dawlish and its rural hinterland. So, if DCC were to be 'twinned' with a more ethnically diverse inner city secondary school in urban Bristol I would be all for it.
Social Anthropology studied in schools. At long last!
What do you expect from a right wing rag? Its purpose is to keep us voting conservative and to keep us busy by preying on our anxieties. Within days of the general election win, the right wing papers started turning its guns on people on benefits, immigrants and the disabled, as a ploy to move the spotlight away from big business and MPs stealing from us.
The more we are worried about people on benefits and nonsensical "non" stories like this, the less we can sop and think about the real issues facing the country which essentialy is the amount of wealth, property and power(much of it inherited and not earned) owned by a tiny precentage of the population.