@merehazle wrote:
Well... what do you think of it so far?
As the PM backs drive for 'British values'.
Plans for schools to promote ''British values'' are likely to have ''overwhelming support'' of people in the UK, the prime minister has said. David Cameron said he hoped Education Secretary Michael Goves proposals for England would be''inculcated into the curriculum in any school in Britain''. He was speaking amid concerns about Islamists takeover in Birmingham schools - the so-called Trojan Horse claims.
Mr Gove said he wanted democracy, mutual respect and tolerance taught. Well so do most of us. We tolerate you and May.
Religion has no place in our schools. The priority is to teach based on facts and equality, not some sky fairy the teachers or parents wish to believe in. We have already seen the boys seated at the front and the girls at the back. That's a bad start. I wonder what's next?
I don't normally come on here - and was surprised to see this topic raised. Read what I say and believe it or not - it's all true!
Back in the 1990's wife worked in what was described as a 'Reception Centre' in Birmingham. In those days we did not have the volume of immigrants into this country that we do now. The government set up reception centres to deal with newly arrived immigrants to deal with their education.The school was called the Cherrywood Centre.
She taught what would have been the first Afghans to arrive in this country, these young men boys boasted of having killed Russian soldiers. There were many muslim faith students and the stories she often came home to me with were worrying.
Young girls that were sent to school in awful condition, one had a broken arm and yet her father had sent her to school. My wife had to arrange for her to go to hospital. Others who were filthy and she had to arrange to wash their clothes while they were at school. Girls who would be there one week and gone the next - for different reasons. Some sent to their home countries to be put into forced arranged marrages which they did not want. Others were taken by other youths and put into prostitution so the families disowned them and they just disappeared without trace.
On one occasion she told me of seeing a student who was supposed to be 15 getting into a school of motoring car after school to take driving lessons. He did have a full beard, which was not unusual, but as she often said the families wanted them to be old enough to cllect child allowance, but these kids wanted to behave like young adults - which is what they were.
Girls were not allowed to have sex education, it was frowned upon, the girls were in separate playgrounds to the boys even back then.
The biggest insult for me was when one day she came home and told me the 'Mullahs' had made one of their many visits to the school to check everything was acceptable to them, she was introduced and she held her hand out to shake the mans hand - only to be totally ignored because she was a woman! There was considerable pressure back then for these schools to become muslim only schools - so if it happened then, work it out for yourself if its true now!
The centre was closed towards the end of the nineties - it is now the Al-Hijrah school.
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