Well that didn’t take long. Barely a week has passed since the right-wing British news media carried a series of anonymous and unverifiable claims about a Welsh-medium school in Wales acting in a discriminatory manner towards English-speaking pupils when we now have yet another fantastical allegation of “anti-English bias” in the Welsh education system. Is there an anglophone black propaganda unit turning this nonsense out on a regular basis?
“A HEAD teacher was accused of “living in the Dark Ages” yesterday after warning that children caught speaking English in his Welsh school faced expulsion.
The punishment is part of a system to “monitor, congratulate and discipline pupils in their use of Welsh”, claims Huw Foster Evans.
He has told parents of any youngster who continues to speak in English to a member of staff after receiving two warnings that they will be “invited to the school to discuss their child’s future”.
If pupils speak English in class they will lose their free time while if they are caught doing so in corridors or the playground they will be reprimanded.
The controversial rules have been spelled out in a letter to parents of all 800 pupils at Ysgol Morgan Llwyd secondary school in Wrexham, North Wales.”
What the journalist fails to make clear is that the increasingly popular Ysgol Morgan Llwyd is the one and only secondary school in the local area that teaches all classes through the Welsh language. It is attended by children whose indigenous language is Welsh or children whose first language is English but whose parents wish them to becomefluent in Welsh. Furthermore, the article also fails to point out that there are several English-medium schools available in the locality that teach pupils entirely through the English language.
As the school principal Foster Evans makes clear:
““We enjoy the strong support of the vast majority of pupils and carers who share with us a positive focus on the learning, achievement and personal development of pupils through the medium of Welsh.
Fluency in Welsh is an absolute requirement to enable our students to attain their full potential.
The only way to develop increasing fluency in any language is to speak it as regularly as possible.”
So, another invented or exaggerated non-story about alleged bias against English-speaking schoolchildren in Wales. The real story in fact is that such patently false claims are being made and that they are being given such prominence in the British anglophone nationalist press. As I said before, the culture war in Wales is heating up.
AN SIONNACH FIONN 
Well that didn’t take long. Barely a week has passed since the right-wing British news media carried a series of anonymous and unverifiable claims about a Welsh-medium school in Wales acting in a discriminatory manner towards English-speaking pupils when we now have yet another fantastical allegation of “anti-English bias” in the Welsh education system. Is there an anglophone black propaganda unit turning this nonsense out on a regular basis?
According to claims made in the conservative Express newspaper:
“A HEAD teacher was accused of “living in the Dark Ages” yesterday after warning that children caught speaking English in his Welsh school faced expulsion.
The punishment is part of a system to “monitor, congratulate and discipline pupils in their use of Welsh”, claims Huw Foster Evans.
He has told parents of any youngster who continues to speak in English to a member of staff after receiving two warnings that they will be “invited to the school to discuss their child’s future”.
If pupils speak English in class they will lose their free time while if they are caught doing so in corridors or the playground they will be reprimanded.
The controversial rules have been spelled out in a letter to parents of all 800 pupils at Ysgol Morgan Llwyd secondary school in Wrexham, North Wales.”
What the journalist fails to make clear is that the increasingly popular Ysgol Morgan Llwyd is the one and only secondary school in the local area that teaches all classes through the Welsh language. It is attended by children whose indigenous language is Welsh or children whose first language is English but whose parents wish them to become fluent in Welsh. Furthermore, the article also fails to point out that there are several English-medium schools available in the locality that teach pupils entirely through the English language.
As the school principal Foster Evans makes clear:
““We enjoy the strong support of the vast majority of pupils and carers who share with us a positive focus on the learning, achievement and personal development of pupils through the medium of Welsh.
Fluency in Welsh is an absolute requirement to enable our students to attain their full potential.
The only way to develop increasing fluency in any language is to speak it as regularly as possible.”
So, another invented or exaggerated non-story about alleged bias against English-speaking schoolchildren in Wales. The real story in fact is that such patently false claims are being made and that they are being given such prominence in the British anglophone nationalist press. As I said before, the culture war in Wales is heating up.
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