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More foreign pupils than Spaniards came to school this term as the number of immigrants rises. But some state schools are increasingly getting reputations as 'ghettoes' for foreign children. What concerns do expat parents have about their children's schooling?Some 80 percent of expats send their children to state schools
The Monjoia Schoool in Sant Bartolomeu del Grau, near Barcelona, perhaps typifies a very real educational conundrum in Spain today.
There are 117 children in this state-run primary, 54 percent of whom are the children of immigrants. Most are Moroccans or Argentines.
Schools like this are increasingly becoming the norm as the number of immigrants rises. Some 6 percent of Spain's 42 million population are from another country. If the numbers of foreigners moving to Spain continues to rise at the same pace, by 2015 one in three people will have come from another country.
And schools like Monjoia are not simply places where poor Third World immigrants send their children.
Figures for 2002-03 showed 80 percent of expats sent their children to state schools; only 20 percent opted for the private sector.
Spanish parents, as well as other expats, are concerned that if some immigrant children do not speak Spanish then their children's progress will be slowed down as teachers have to compensate.
Maria Teresa Feu, director at Monjoia, concedes this happens.
"You have to accept that if a large number of the children do not speak Spanish properly then the children are not going to learn at the same level or the same speed," she says.
Feu admits it has caused conflicts between the Spanish and Moroccan parents.
"We have been accused of racism on both sides. Some Spanish parents have said we favour Moroccans, while some Moroccans said we treat their children like slaves. We throw ourselves into teaching and treat them all the same."
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