If you would care to re-read my original posting, you will see that the words "racism" and "racist" do not appear in what I actually wrote. However, it does indeed seem strange to me that a parent can complain about there being a significant number of Arab children in her child's class. We are, after all, in Qatar! If I were to take my family to live in France, would it not be natural for my child's classmates to be French? Or does Handbag Shopper expect all schools to operate a quota system of some kind, so that perfectly able and deserving children are turned away simply because their first language is not English? Are you suggesting that it is okay if a child cannot speak or write English, as long as they do not speak Arabic?
If you read through the many posts on the subject of education that you will find on the QL site, you will find that some of them were written by parents whose children are at schools where the classes are of less than twenty students. You should also note that the fees for these schools are significantly higher than Newton International's fees.
Dear PM,
If you would care to re-read my original posting, you will see that the words "racism" and "racist" do not appear in what I actually wrote. However, it does indeed seem strange to me that a parent can complain about there being a significant number of Arab children in her child's class. We are, after all, in Qatar! If I were to take my family to live in France, would it not be natural for my child's classmates to be French? Or does Handbag Shopper expect all schools to operate a quota system of some kind, so that perfectly able and deserving children are turned away simply because their first language is not English? Are you suggesting that it is okay if a child cannot speak or write English, as long as they do not speak Arabic?
If you read through the many posts on the subject of education that you will find on the QL site, you will find that some of them were written by parents whose children are at schools where the classes are of less than twenty students. You should also note that the fees for these schools are significantly higher than Newton International's fees.