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Wed 08 Aug 2008Segregation in education is never the best route to take
There is no well-founded evidence to support the assertion that segregating minority language students to teach them English is of benefit to them, writes Karl Kitching
BRIAN HAYES, the Fine Gael spokesman on education, has been supported in his call for separate instruction for immigrant, minority-language students by the largest second-level teachers' union, the ASTI. I wish to voice my own concern at this apparently well-intentioned move, because of its ultimately racialising implications.
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