Government data shows 10% of children in English schools have English as an additional lanuage. They use a different language at home.
The case of Gypsy/Roma or Traveller children shows that culture may impact on educational attainment. These groups tend to be from disadvantages families. Traveller children attend primary school more than they do attend secondary schools, this suggests many families don't register their children at school. It's thought this may be for child care and work reasons.
On the other hand, Chinese children are consistently among the highest attaining children and it's thought that Chinese parents strongly encourage or even demand high educational attainment of their children. At GCSE, Chinese children on FSM perform better than the national average for all pupils. Chua described the Chinese parents as 'Tiger Parents' who can't accept failure.
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