No mention of the reason this woman was sent the letter in the first place. From other articles I have read the school was only carrying out a duty of care for a primary school pupil dropped off too early and left unattended in a school yard.
Let's have a reality check here, I for one find it despicable that this woman has slandered a school for trying to look after her child.

As an aside, when my father was a child, Wesh was discouraged in favour of English and was, I believed, banned from use in Welsh schools. This had the effect of reducing the number of Welsh speakers. This has now been overturned with children now being taught in Welsh.

In this case, the mother should have been sent the letter in English unless she had requested otherwise. If you live in England the language is English and the onus on anyone settling in this country is to learn and converse in English. If you are visiting it is different but to live permanently in any country you should learn their language.

I suspect there may be more here than meets the eye. This woman states she speaks Punjabi, not Hindi and is offended when she received a Hindi letter. I understand there is a movement in India to suppress Punjabi being used in schools IN PUNJAB and instead force children to learn only Hindi in school. Possibly her apparent over-reaction to being sent a letter in a language she does not speak is at least partly because it is in the language that is being forced in Punjab schools with the message that Hindi is better and Punjabi is bad.

Instead of immediately leaping to "racist" on the part of the school, someone needs to step back and take a wider shot at seeing this in a context that is not apparent to people in Great Brittain. I know this counters the view of many commentws that state, "When in Rome do as the Romans do" shifted to "When in England, one MUST do and think as the British do" but if true understanding rather than knee-jerk racial pride-based reactions is important, then we must try to see that even though someone is living in Great Britain they do not, nor should they, leave behind all influences of other cultures and that maybe she had not reacted so strongly because she is after money or other baser motives.

I wonder if there's a 'Racism claims 4U' firm operating ? Gap in the market there maybe, seeing as they would have the Strasburg numpties backing them up.

Why are there so many people bitter about ethnic minorities here. We're all from the human race you know.

Note how long it takes to process posts on this subject !!

Thats not racist!

RACISM RACISM RACISM ...... easy money and they get it .... what do us english get if we accused somebody of it , sod all ... ..

Simple answer is to send all letters out in English and let them get it translated, after all this is England where the language is English -

- even if many Brits have trouble reading and writing it ;)

A bit of a storm in a teacup...And I'm very tempted to note that the reverse could also be true,if she had been sent out a letter in English,when she spoke mainly Punjabi. Obviously some school secretary needs to be sent away to do a course on sensitivity training. Seems some effort needs to be made there to find out which language parents might prefer to receive letters in.