well nobody is against learning Arabic here ,as kiwi said learning is learning
the concern is about sudden change in curriculum of arabic so that the children who merely started learning making words from alphabets are now suddendly supposed to make ,rememember and reproduce complicated sentences without much help from the teachers in coping with this change.
and if asked they just say it is imposed by SEC.
you r right frenchie that we can hire arabic tutuor but dont you think that everybody cannot afford this extra payment keeping in view the high cost of the british schools and plus this will be an extra burden for child after school