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Originally Posted by parmnion

You dont have to e plain the entire debate..just the bit highlighted...

Then can you explain why you are willing to believe the part about them spking english but are less willing to believe some other points like the food and the cross?

The cross and the carbonara is just hyper bait to add fuel to the fire.

@ Kizzy Imagine for the purpose of the debate you were to foster a refugee child, could you in all honesty say that you would never speak English in their presence?... Let's be realistic.
They weren't setting out to upset her just by talking.

English families that foster refugees aren't expected to speak anything other than English. That's because the child is going to be raised, go to school and eventually be employed in an English speaking nation so its important they pick up the language. Its highly unlikely though, that a child with no English would be placed in such a family. They will normally spend some time in a residential facility with a translator to hand. My gripe with the 'speak nothing but English' rule is, there is still a chance that family can be found and such children may be able to, at some point, return to their country of birth; if not as children, as adults. I don't think we should ever presume its okay for them to lose their mother tongue.