A Muslim school will not allow girls to eat lunch until after boys have finished, an Ofsted chief has told MPs.
Al-Hijrah school in Birmingham is still segregating boys and girls despite a Court of Appeal ruling in 2017 that found it was unlawful, according to Luke Tryl, director of corporate strategy at Ofsted. He said that Al-Hijrah school was enforcing a “very strict gender segregation” which included “denying the girls to have their lunch until the boys had had theirs.”
In addition, “We had some very discriminatory texts for instance, encouraging violence against women,” he said.
The school was ordered to desegregate almost two years ago but appears to have made no meaningful changes. [Friendly Atheist] Read more
