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Quite remarkable to read that that nearly one in three school pupils in Glasgow do not speak English as their first language.
Figures from the Scottish government showed that 28.8 per cent of students in the country’s largest city speak English as an additional language (EAL). The data also found that the number of pupils speaking English as an additional language has risen sharply, up nearly a third since 2019 when it stood at 22.5 per cent. In Glasgow, 20,717 of the city’s 71,957 pupils are now classed as EAL students, according to figures collected in September last year.
Glasgow prides itself as a sanctuary city and welcomes as many migrants who can convince themselves to go and live there. It has taken in MORE migrants than hosts more “asylum seekers” than any other city in the UK. So maybe this trend of having school children who do not speak English as their first language is hardly a surprise but where will it end? Almost one in three now, could that be 50% by the end of the decade? And what does this mean for the schools that have to deal with these kids?
I have been in Glasgow many times over the years and have to admit that some of the more traditional Glasgow accents can be a bit impenetrable! It may have been English but not as we know it. Jim! But when you add this cohort of non-English speaking migrants, you get a city that is not on my bucket list of places I want to visit in the years ahead. Under SNP rule, Glasgow is becoming a foreign city, where kids cannot speak English. How do you sing “I belong tae Glasgow” in Urdu?
