It is not known how many emotionally undeveloped, socially functioning children exist in mainstream state schools.
These conditions cannot be resourced in mainstream state schools because of large class sizes and intense curriculum constraints.
Mainstream state schools, which exist to enable emotional, social, physical and academic growth, are not equipped to resource the development of children with significant unresolved emotional needs.
As the ethos of mainstream state education becomes more liberal and secular, children of Islamic background experience an environment where the role of religion is huge and growing.
Asma Al-Deraa has a seven-year-old son at the Iona school and a 10-year-old daughter in mainstream state education.
It was the first time that such a high-level delegation had visited the area and the first time the situation had been featured in the mainstream state press.
That shift will annoy vocal middle-class parents who feel that as taxpayers they have put a lot of money into Oxford and other top universities, and would therefore like their children educated there, cheaply and in as large numbers as possible.It will also hurt the government's plans for getting more pupils from mainstream state schools into the top universities.
Overall the number of schools falling below the government's floor targets for GCSE passes fell by just one, to 329 schools nationally – 11% of all mainstream state secondary schools – well above the level of 154 that failed to reach the mark in 2013.
The methods at the school, which are based on the controversial teachings of Austrian 19th century philosopher Rudolf Steiner, may be different from those employed in mainstream state schools, but the Iona was recently declared outstanding by the School Inspection Service – the independent equivalent of Ofsted.
Rice as food and crop is central to the identities of many Asian societies, indeed most mainstream state cultures in East, Southeast and South Asia, from the Japanese to Sichuanese, to the Thai or Sri Lankan Sinhala see rice as a core part of their cultural tradition.
