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After the hedonistic life of a white South African middle manager (chauffeur-driven car, beach side second home, private schools), English life was tough.
With a Swedish-speaking minority of about 6%, Finland is officially a bilingual country & has signs in 2 languages, yet in its schools English has thumpingly replaced Swedish as 2nd choice.
Preparedness for college is especially low — only 7 percent of students enrolled in the schools' English Language Learners program are ready for college or a career according to state standards, reports Kirk Semple on the SchoolBook blog.
There are chemistry classes conducting lead-paint analyses in local schools, English seminars writing newsletters for community groups, drama students helping displaced residents produce a play about the loss of their neighborhood.
From the safety of a friend's house in Edmonton, Budd's thoughts turned to her grade 12 (the final year at Canadian high schools) English literature students, who had all been part of the city's enforced exodus.
Instead, with middle-class white parents queuing up to send their children to church schools or private education, and Muslim parents wanting their own faith schools, English schools are highly segregated.
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