England Without the English: London School Has Zero Native Speakers

England Without the English: London School Has Zero Native Speakers

Ultimate diversity has finally been achieved. London is now home to a school where not one of the pupils’ first languages is English. Welcome to Kobi Nazrul Primary School—named after the national poet of Bangladesh, but which curiously you find situated in London’s East End, just a stone’s throw from the East London Mosque (one of Europe’s largest), which comfortably accommodates 7,000 Muslims. Anyone familiar with the English Monopoly board mi…