The new head of White Hart Lane school in Tottenham has said that pupils must focus on learning English.
Now maybe you are reading this and thinking, "of course", but seemingly the previous situation was that many pupils were being taught in their native language. When you realise that more than 70% of the pupils there speak English as a second language and 59 different languages, from Amharic to Ukrainian, are spoken you realise how difficult the situation is.
About 400 of the school's 1,200 pupils speak Turkish, and bilingual lessons were introduced in 2001 for those taking GCSE science. But, results for this group and for other students remained stubbornly low, with only 23% getting a grade C or higher at GCSE.
A tough decision to make, but I think it's the right one.