Welsh Medium Education Scandal

The Treason of the Coalition Agreements  

    Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Language Society are creating their dream of undoing the 1847 Treason of the Blue Books. Children will be prohibited from using English in Welsh Schools becaus of their coalition agreeement. The right for children to educated through their native language will implemented in 2025.

        Amanda Spielamn Head of Ofsted stated "Education is the great force of human advancement, of advancement of civilisation "and that “It a lovely combination of the human and the intellectual- it’s big, it’s complicated, but above all it has such a profound influence upon people’s lives!" The proposal is huge one. It was decisional that required advanced Q.T.S. professional appraisal.

   Plaid Cymru using to 2050 political marketing soundbite. It allows the proposal to be implemented at any time from 2025. They know there will be protests if was applied immediately.
 
   Professor Sioned Davies, who has now retired, and the Welsh Language Society, which is a direct action group, is demanding in a Nation Cymru article  that her 2015 Donaldson Curriculum recommendations should be implemented. Her legal teaching status is Tom, Dick and Mary.  The recommendations are eight years old and contemporary research illustrates that her findings are passed their sell-by date.

        Mark Drakeford has promised in the media that English-speaking children will never be compelled to learn a new language to be educated through the medium of Welsh. It would be an infringement of their human rights if they were, because children will always learn most effectively in their most fluent language.

      Professor Sioned Davies is a Professor of Welsh, not education. Her recommendation that all children in Wales should take the a common Welsh Language G.C.S.E., the one children in Welsh-Medium take, can only be  implemented if all children are compelled  to learn Welsh to be educated through the medium of it so they can achieve that standard. It appears to have been a surreptitious proposal. The intent was not clearly articulated to the public. 

   Professor Paul Howard-Jones is a educational neuroscientist in Bristol School of Education. He refers to teachers having the equivalent impact upon the brain as neurosurgeons. University Welsh Language academics are not legal authorities in community or school teaching up to A'Level. Professor Margaret Brown, who is a very brilliant mathematical educator, for instance. She spent her career in school and schools of education. University maths academics do not teach maths up to A'Level.

 
   Q.T.S. teachers, who are intensively trained in schools of education, not Welsh, who are registered, are the legal authorities on children’s learning, not professors of Welsh who have never taught a child nor university academics with Welsh Language degrees. Unlike teachers they not registered.They are not required to be open and hones, and there is no protection for the public from institutional cover ups. 

   Hedledd Fychan Plaid Cymru M.S. expressed her dream of making every child in Wales confident bilingual speakers. She clearly wants children to devotes thousands of hours to learn Welsh instead of devoping their reading, maths and science. She appears to have been a member of the Welsh Language.

   There has been a failure in Wales to understand that the language children learn through the medium of is fundmanetal to determining their learning attainment, Welsh or English, and fluency takes thousands of hours to develop and the fluency, including literaracy that children will develop will also be a matter of degree.            

       Shah on paper on the Irish Language refers the emphasis on developing the Irish language in schooling is simplistic, and it does not address the core issue of language survival (See hgunn.uk - Welsh Language Papers). It putting the blame for the decline of the Welsh Language on English speaker

     Welsh speakers will be engaging in xenaophobic prejudice if they do not respect children's human rights and demand that native English speaking children must be educated through the medium of Welsh. They have a human right to be educated through their native English language as much Welsh speakers theirs.

Plenary         

     It takes adult around 10,000 hours for adult to develop anything resembling native fluency in a new language. Children will need to learn the same language as adults. It has only be assumed that children must learn Welsh to create the million Welsh speakers. 

    Professor McChriost who is an authority on language planning in Cardiff School of Welsh has claimed that minority languages cannot be resurrected and children will always prefer to speak their mother tongue. Dr Margaret Newcombe Cardiff School of Welsh admits that most children in Welsh medium education speak Welsh in the school yard and at home.  

      Hywel Jones Cardiff University who was on statistician on  the Welsh Language Board stated that ambition to create million Welsh Speakers by 2050 is unattainable. He also refers to in a B.B.C. article the figure of  Welsh speakers being misrepresented in the public domain @ 27% and the population of Welsh speakers being around 10% to 12%. This is the figure Howard has referred to in his researched book. It must accepted the larger stamps were available for whoever created the ambition to write their rationale on the back of it.

A more detailed summary is offered on the next two pages.