Teachers are to be sent on training programmes to help them stop extremism entering the classroom, as damning reports show that some state schools have been imposing Islamic practices and attitudes.
The reports are due to be published by the education watchdog Ofsted next week, after inspectors carried out emergency checks in 21 schools in Birmingham following complaints of homophobia, the segregation of boys and girls in some lessons, refusal to teach sex education, bullying and invitations to extremists to speak at assemblies.
[A COMMENT] The Tower Hamlets election farce, the Islamist plot to take over schools, the ongoing threats from homegrown Islamists .... Am I islamophobic for being concerned?
[ANOTHER] "Am I islamophobic for being concerned?" No, but our leaders will argue that you are racist and so try to close down debate. Why? Because they are terrified.
[ANOTHER] No you are not. You are, along with most of the rest of the nation, Islamosceptic; dubious whether the importation of these seemingly ungrateful aliens is a good idea.
[ANOTHER] All Islamic faith schools should be banned immediately, I have little time for faith schools as a whole, but I recognise that we do not have this issue with other faith schools. Islamic faith schools have proven themselves not to be trusted. [The Telegraph] Read more
