{"id":961840,"date":"2021-11-03T10:44:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=961840"},"modified":"2021-11-03T10:44:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T14:44:13","slug":"italy-880-schools-have-more-foreign-born-pupils-than-native-italians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/italy-880-schools-have-more-foreign-born-pupils-than-native-italians\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy: 880 Schools Have More Foreign-Born Pupils than Native Italians"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fitaly-880-schools-have-more-foreign-born-pupils-than-native-italians%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=961840&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1340002650-e1635884157767-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The number of foreign-born pupils in Italian schools is on the rise, with at least 880 schools across the country now having more foreign-born pupils and native Italians.<\/p>\n<p>Schools with more than 50 per cent foreign-born pupils have increased from 805 to 880 in the last year, with more than half of the schools being kindergartens. At least 8.4 per cent of kindergartens in Italy have over 30 per cent foreign-born pupils.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Foreign-born pupils represent around 10.3 per cent of the total number of pupils in Italy, or 877,000 pupils out of 8,484,000 who attended an Italian school in the last year, newspaper <em>Il Giornale<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilgiornale.it\/news\/cronache\/scuola-istituti-pi-30-stranieri-nord-e-all-infanzia-1986173.html\">reports<\/a>. The 10.3 per cent figure is an increase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infomigrants.net\/en\/post\/8442\/94-of-students-in-italy-are-foreign-61-born-in-country\">since 2018<\/a> when the figure sat at 9.4 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>3,809 schools across the country, mainly in Northern Italy, have rates of 30 per cent or more migrant children \u2014 6.8 per cent of the total number of schools in the country, up from 5.3 per cent in 2016\/2017.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of regions, the region of Lombardy has the highest number of schools with migrant populations over 30 per cent, at 1,041, but Emilia-Romagna has the highest proportion, with 16.2 per cent of schools exceeding the 30 per cent migrant pupil threshold.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.8630136986301\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Study: Italian Children Fleeing Heavily Migrant Populated Schools  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/goY0JJpRLT\">https:\/\/t.co\/goY0JJpRLT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1050763027551801344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <em>Il Giornale<\/em>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/italy\/5044607\/Italys-centre-Right-government-wants-30-per-cent-cap-on-immigrants-in-classrooms.html\">30 per cent migrant student threshold<\/a> was set up by the Italian Ministry of Education in 2010 in order to better facilitate integration efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Milan, which has a large portion of schools with a high number of migrant-background pupils, reportedly saw up to 56 per cent of Italian parents in the city enrolling their children into non-catchment area schools <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2018\/10\/12\/native-italian-children-fleeing-heavily-migrant-populated-schools\/\">in order to avoid them<\/a>, according to a study published in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Milanese teachers also spoke out about problems with teaching foreign children, many of whom do not speak Italian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past five years, there has been a considerable increase in the concentration of children with non-native speakers and from other countries that do not understand and do not speak Italian,\u201d teachers, parents, and school administrators said in a letter to Milan\u2019s Mayor Beppe Sala.<\/p>\n<p>In other countries, such as Germany, some schools have migrant-background populations far higher than just 30 per cent, with some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2018\/03\/04\/german-elementary-school-99-percent-migrant-background-students-forced-hire-security-guard\/\">up to 99 per cent<\/a>, such as the&nbsp;Schoeneberg Spreewald Elementary School in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study data released in 2019 revealed that migrant pupils in Germany and Austria performed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/12\/07\/austria-school-tests-show-continued-gap-between-migrants-and-natives\/\">far below the standards<\/a> of native-born pupils.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.848275862069\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Europe: School Tests Show Huge Gaps Between Migrants and Natives <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HJVRNLH87N\">https:\/\/t.co\/HJVRNLH87N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1203272944266272770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at&nbsp;<span><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>or email at&nbsp;ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of foreign-born pupils in Italian schools is on the rise, with at least 880 schools across the country now having more foreign-born pupils and native Italians. 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