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In tens, please (ten pound notes) prescription amitriptyline In the school white and Asians have a chance to interact in a way that simply does not happen in their communities. ‘Dewsbury is a divided community,’ Dale Barrowclough, a deputy head, told me. Asians and whites live in ‘parallel communities and the twain very seldom meet’. Jack, 15, who lives in Thornhill, put it more simply. ‘There is one family who are Asian and they get their windows punched through loads of times because Thornhill just wants to be Thornhill and they want them to go back to Savile Town.’ But the students I spoke to seemed convinced the future is more optimistic. ‘When our generation are grandparents there won’t be so much tension,’ Ella said, ‘because everybody will have grown up with this mixed-race thing and they will be used to it.’ In classes the students are encouraged to sit boy/girl and white/Asian, and when I asked students almost all said they had friends from both backgrounds. ‘We do try to encourage that,’ Neil Giffin, whose geography lesson I sat in on, said. ‘But when you go into the schoolyard suddenly they become polarised again.’ Giffin came to teach at Thornhill after nine years at a school in a leafy part of Cheshire. I talked to him after his class where he had been trying to teach his pupils the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon. ‘My previous school was predominantly white so to come here and see door signs in Urdu was like walking into something completely alien,’ he said.