Codie Stott: The 14-year-old schoolgirl was arrested for racism and spent three-and-a-half hours in police custody

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She deserved it. She's not very bright obviously due to the contusions suffered during the train "accident" of 1910 where 35 Armenians ate just ONE hat for dinneropolis.

- Mike Smith., Brighton England, 07/12/2010 21:33
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Kids of various ethnicities do not learn much because very often leading BNP members, who are fully paid paid members-refer to the BNP member list leaked few years back, are also teaching in some of the predominately BME neighborhood. They do all they can to keep the schooling and standards as low as possible because it feeds their propaganda. My wife is a white teacher for last ten years and tells me that the teaching standards between working classes and upper classes, BME and non BME are dramatically different. Upper classes , even in publicly funded socials schooling get best teachers from the pool, who work from 8, 8:30 till five and come fully prepared, in working class areas they arrive 10 to nine and leave 3:30 or 4 and hardly ever prepare at home. Bottom of the pile is BME who get systematic neglect and all sort of national institutions contribute towards these divisions, including, Governments, religions, class system and so on. I know that some of you will star6 giving me some one of example to say that this is not the case, but in social studies we look at national trends not some one of example. In the end what we forget is that by doing such thing we only ourselves and our nation. By oppressing talent and wasting it the only thing that suffers is the society and nation. Personally I am sick and tired of headline grabbing psychopaths leading our agenda on national harmony. Society always has weaknesses differences, it is how we handle them make us who we are.

- Ali, Manchester, 15/08/2010 12:51
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This country is getting to a stage where normal every day working people, are getting truely sick of being treated like second class citizens in their own country.
Its gone politically correctness mad, its bad enough having the likes of Ba Ba Blacksheep banned because its classed as racist, but when our childrens educations are suffering because they are not allowed to speak up. Its going to far treating children like criminals simply because they want a decent education, and dont want to be held back by immigrants.

- Dennis Raines, Bristol England, 05/08/2010 14:47
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my grand son was the only white boy in his class and he was learning nothing he was way behind most kids his age so my daughter move to barnsley and the change in him is fantastic he can now read and write and he as only been at is new school a year so stop treating our kids like lepers its wrong sack the teatcher and sue the police our kids have rights to

- alan, rotherham, 04/08/2010 20:53
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This is PATHETIC,,,,
I have worked in a lower school where a 5 year old boy was expected to just go with the flow, it took a couple of WEEKS before the school even found out what language the child spoke, the distress that that child must have felt hardly got taken into consideration, nor the respect of the teacher that was already trying to teach a full class of 30 5 year old's, and why is this you are all asking ????
because people are to scared to speak up now, why is this ???? because like the 2 children in the article we get called RACIST for asking questions or asking for help with understanding them, well i am not a racist, i have plenty of multi cultured family and friends that would agree with me,
How can teachers be expected to teach effectively in a full class of children as well as teach NONE English speaking children, the teachers are hardly given enough time to teach a whole class the curriculum in the time expected by government, let alone teach it in half a dozen different languages and how can you PROSECUTE a CHILD for WANTING to learn towards her GCSE's, either teach the children English before you dump them in main stream school OR GIVE THE TEACHERS THE RESOURCES THAT WILL BE NEEDED, like extra teaching staff so that the rest of the class don't suffer as a result of governments IGNORANCE, i am all for inclusion but there has to be a line drawn somewhere,
And politicians keep asking why there are a shortage or teachers !!!!!!

- Sue, Kent, 04/08/2010 00:27
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I see this complaint all around the world and also agree it is child abuse. Especially when very young students are hauled before the courts. Codie should have every right to ask to change groups and not be "a nonpaid teaching assistant". She also has the right to top grade education, and non-english speaking students should be sent to ESL school before public school is attempted.

- Margo, Vancouver, BC,Canada, 31/07/2010 09:13
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For Gods sake...in an English school in England...wouldn`t you expect the students to speak English!That is not racist..it is common sense!Typical of the attitudes towards the English now!!!

- Paula, W A, 16/02/2010 09:32
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Yet more evidence of the marxist infiltrated state police controlled education system. Brain washed moronic teachers, lead by the treacherous house of treason. Free speech? Not in England anymore.
Vote for change in this years elections, fail to do so will result in more anti English laws happily enforced by the Quislings in the authorities!

- Andrew Mcbride, Bracknell Berks, England, 08/05/2009 11:11
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This is child abuse at the hands of a school and the police. If you like what happened, keep voting Lab/Con/Lib. They totally oppose turning the UK into some northern mirror image of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. This girl has the human right to a quality education. These multicultural beasts are doing their best to prevent it.

- John King, indiana, usa, 01/05/2009 01:10
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Disgraceful. What a waste of police time and energy.

- Mo, rochdale, 13/10/2006 17:07
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The so-called teachers and policemen involved in this dispicable abuse of a child in the name of political correctness; i.e. insanity, should be sacked

- Donald Ward, South Australia, 13/10/2006 16:28
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In what way is wanting to discuss a topic in English, in England, racist? The teachers involved and the police should apologise immediately.

- Ashley, Reading, UK, 13/10/2006 16:07
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This is Political Correctness gone mad! I'm sure there a far worse crimes than a schoolgirl not wanting to associate with her fellow pupils - and imprisoning the young girl for three and a half hours is simply a disgrace.

- Andrew Peterson, Sydney, Australia, 13/10/2006 16:04
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It is very disappointing to see that we are so concerned with ‘fostering’ multiculturalism that a teenage girl cannot raise an issue regarding her education for fear of being sent to the police. In my opinion a ‘tolerant’ society would listen to the concerns of a 14-year old girl who was finding it difficult to undertake discussion work with students that speak very little English. How can this be racist? She had every right to feel uncomfortable and confused. Does the concept of racism now encapsulate raising any concern about immigration and how it will affect aspects of our society (e.g. our education system)? I think it is absolutely ridiculous how the school behaved and they have nothing to be proud of. They should have dealt with the issue internally.

- Justin O'Farrell, London, 13/10/2006 15:45
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The police will have a record of whether their victim was placed in a police cell - or should have.

Is the hysterical teacher being sent to on anger management course, has she been informed of her breaches of the Human Rights legisation and her responsibilities as a teacher to her pupils?

- David, UK, 13/10/2006 15:10
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Common Sense, Nil - Political Correctness, One. Bad result.

- Ted Knight, Shetland, 13/10/2006 15:05
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I think Chris, London has got it right. Why should our children suffer because of this government's out of control immigration policies? At the very least non-English speaking students should go to a special language school to learn English before they even come to this country, let alone becoming part of the general schooling system, its not really fair on anyone - the foreign students too.

- Isabel, Woking, Surrey, 13/10/2006 15:02
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Lets make Urdu the national language, force everyone to convert to Islam. Make Christianity illegal, completely banish our own culture all together, then BINGO! The perfect world.

- Vincent Mckenzie, Conwy Wales, 13/10/2006 14:56
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Without knowing the full story it is difficult to know whether the teacher's, school's and police's actions were justified. But it does raise some wider issues.

School is meant to be about providing the best possible education to every child and something is clearly going wrong if instead of learning about the subject, a child is instead asked to take on the role of an unpaid teaching asssistant to help other children learn English.

University's have language tests to make sure all students are able to participate equally in a class and it sounds like schools, now need this too.

I know that in the past foriegn children would just turn up at school and be expected to pick up the language, as they go along, but there are now far more non english speaking students at schools. If, as in this case, they are all talking to each other in a foreign language they are clearly not benefiting fully from the lessons and are also having a negative impact on the other children's education.

- Chris, London, 13/10/2006 14:27
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Seems we would be better off teaching our children at home.

- John Latty, London, 13/10/2006 14:23
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Though I disagree with the treatment of Codie Stott, there are two sides to every story. So far the comments made here seem to make the assumption that this young lady is telling the truth about the incident, what her complaint was and how she actually went about making it. I'd like to hear what the school has to say before making the same mistake as other posters...

- Cat, Cheshire, 13/10/2006 13:13
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To be a good teacher requires maturity and good judgement in stressful situations. Many teachers take years to achieve such standards. This is one reason why head teachers are required to provide wise counsel before the law formally intervenes. One wonders what actually happened here. I would hope that the girl's teacher was not the sole judge and jury on this matter.

- Jim Mcilroy, Towcester, Northamptonshire, 13/10/2006 10:01
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It looks like the lunatics are in charge of the asylum now.

- Stephen Durr, London England, 13/10/2006 09:47
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Political Correctness means that I too am frightened into self censorship.
I have therefore deleted everything from my comment except "Poor Codie" and "I congratulate the fine Headteacher and our brave Manchester Police force for devoting their valuable time and resources to dealing with this crimewave."
Is this enough to save me from a knock on the door at midnight?

- John Y, Oxford. UK, 13/10/2006 09:40
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What exactly are schoolchildren with no knowledge of English doing in an English school.......???

Would it not be better to send them to a language class first, so that they can least communicate with the inhabitants of the country they are staying in?

I thoroughly hope that an action group will be formed, a formal complaint be made to Police Complaints Authority and the teachers/police officers involved be sacked.

- Weddigen, London, 13/10/2006 09:37
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Thank goodness for people like District Judge Jonathan Finestein.

- Terry Pelz, Houston, Texas, USA, 13/10/2006 06:17
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This is a blatant case of child abuse. It amazes me that the teacher involved in this incident has not been removed from her post and the police officers suspended. Make no mistake - if these monsters were to find their careers on the line every time they behaved like this then they'd think twice about doing it. To protect our kids we should adopt a policy of zero tolerance towards these lunatics. They shouldn't be allowed anywhere near schoolkids. I hope that someone somewhere is organizing a campaign to this end.

- D Michael, Western Isles, UK, 13/10/2006 04:16
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What do you mean "The Police denied that she had been kept in a cell" either she was or she was not, surely a matter that can easily be proven one way or the other . If she was kept in a cell then this is an outrage and needs to be confronted head on.

If the fact is that the child had to join non English speaking children in a discussion on a science project, surely common sense tells any rational thinking person that this is simply wrong and can only hinder the progress of the English speaking pupil. Have we gone mad, somebody tell me I am wrong? We are an English speaking nation, how on earth can any child hope to progress in their education if they are literally forced to study and debate subjects with children who have little to no grasp of our mother language?

- Paul Minter, St Louis USA, 12/10/2006 23:34
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