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2 unusual facts about Ray Honeyford


Ray Honeyford

The journalist and author Robert Winder said that Honeyford made "a serious point" when he argued that the kind of multiculturalism "which encouraged pupils to work within their own cultures and languages...was cumbersome, inefficient and divisive".

He was headmaster of Drummond Middle School in Bradford, Yorkshire, when in January 1984 he published an article critical of multiculturalism and its effect on British education in The Salisbury Review, a conservative magazine edited by the philosopher Roger Scruton.


Mohammed Ajeeb

He has been criticized for having sacked headmaster Ray Honeyford who in 1984 wrote an article in The Salisbury Review arguing that multiculturalism was damaging the Pakistani children whom he taught.


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