Do Others Agree With Rowan Williams?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2829329/Let-primary-teachers-wear-veil-classroom-says-former-Archbishop-Canterbury.html

Would you be quite happy to let your children or grandchildren being taught by a teacher wearing the niqab?

[mikey4444]

DTC....Being an atheist, the politics of the Church in Wales or the Church of England remain a mystery to me but I just wish you hadn't have included his nationality into this thread, as it is of no importance whatsoever. Neither can I see the relevance of goats to the wearing of the veil.

I am an Englishman living in Wales but I still feel that unkind digs at other peoples ethnicities is unnecessary and rarely helpful. But I don't want to fall out with you over this, as there are much better candidates here on AB for that honour !

I will admit, however, that Rowan is a trifle on the beardy-weirdy side for me !

[DTCwordfan]

Then we agree on that last line....Any of our nations is fair game for me, including the Cornish. I've made enough jokes about them and will continue to do so, especially when I hear daft ideas about independence, even the recent announcement that we are afforded the same protection as the Welsh etc. Ridiculous that this is.

[glenbar]

A great big NO. its ridiculous.

[mikey4444]

DTC...I will be joining you soon, as I am in my caravan near St Just for the whole of December , and I can hardly wait !

I am reminded of the inscription on the wall of the Eden Projects Pasty counter.

" It was said Devil never crossed the Tamar from Devon into Cornwall as he had heard that those Cornish housewives would put anything into a Pasty, and he didn't want to take the chance"

[tonyav]

glenbar
A great big NO. its ridiculous.

Very true, glenbar.

But there again so is the person that suggested it.
So it's a no from me to.

[sp1814]

I have a lot of time for Rowan, but on this I think he is wrong. Children (in fact all of us) communicate not only verbally, but visually. I remember being a young kid and getting 'the look' from my mum when I misbehaved. Take that away, and you're taking away one of the tools that teachers use to communicate.

It's a silly notion.

[sp1814]

Incidentally, will someone please have a word with Rowan about the eyebrows. It's got to a point where he might take off in a strong wind.

[agchristie]

Easy answer - no.

[B00]

I cannot begin to imagine how terrifying one of those veils might look to a reception aged child who'd not encountered one before.

[jourdain2]

I this the first time that there has been unanimity?

[jourdain2]

Blessed keyboard 'Is', Not I.

[-Talbot-]

jourdain2
I this the first time that there has been unanimity?



Dunno.....what is mikey's answer?

[jourdain2]

We await with bated breath!

[DTCwordfan]

Do you want to meet for a pint, mikey, the Tinners at Zennor, for example.....?

[mikey4444]

DTC...that sound like a good idea ! Please remind me in DEcember and we can meet up !

[sp1814]

Good Lord...get a room...

;-)

[ludwig]

//Incidentally, will someone please have a word with Rowan about the eyebrows. It's got to a point where he might take off in a strong wind.//

I've never understood that thing of letting your eyebrows grow ludicrously long. It's just hair, trim it for chrissakes.

[sandyRoe]

Isn't the niqab a garment of modesty? If a woman who usually wore one was teaching children what would be the need for it?

[sandyRoe]

Dennis Healey's eyebrows never harmed his political career.

[Khandro]

These constant links to the 'sensational revelations' by The Daily Mail are really tiresome, if you look at the copy you will see that the only actual quotes from R.W. are the single repeated word 'panic' taken out of any context, and something about teachers in Pakistan. The rest is fabricated spin by this disreputable rag, dished up daily by 'anotheroldgit' for what reason I can't imagine.