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Should Hijabs Be Banned In All Primary Schools?
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Even Transport for London, thinking that they were acting in a true PC fashion, by including a small Muslim character in their £2million campaign for schools and nurseries, were later forced to withdraw the cartoon.
Even Transport for London, thinking that they were acting in a true PC fashion, by including a small Muslim character in their £2million campaign for schools and nurseries, were later forced to withdraw the cartoon.
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The main idea behind a uniform is that is equalises the pupils, particularly rich and poor.
By removing this equalisation you are introducing issues into the school, whether they be bullying or elitism. Schools should be for learning not for scoring political or religious points. And that applies to all religions.
By removing this equalisation you are introducing issues into the school, whether they be bullying or elitism. Schools should be for learning not for scoring political or religious points. And that applies to all religions.
If they are being forced, I am astounded that there are no reports of it.
I do of course mean Primary Schools overall as in County Primary and CofE - not religious schools which may have their different rules.
I have stated in my own case, both when I was at school and when my daughters were and now their children, the items on the school uniform list were many - thankfully many though allowed were not actually required.
I think the campaign is to get the Hijab removed from the list, that is their right to ask for of course.
I do of course mean Primary Schools overall as in County Primary and CofE - not religious schools which may have their different rules.
I have stated in my own case, both when I was at school and when my daughters were and now their children, the items on the school uniform list were many - thankfully many though allowed were not actually required.
I think the campaign is to get the Hijab removed from the list, that is their right to ask for of course.
YMB - //The main idea behind a uniform is that is equalises the pupils, particularly rich and poor.
By removing this equalisation you are introducing issues into the school, whether they be bullying or elitism. Schools should be for learning not for scoring political or religious points. And that applies to all religions. //
I am with YMB on this one.
The purpose of uniform is to enforce a school identity, not a religious preference - so by singling out small girls, it sets them aside from their peer group, which negates the purpose of uniform.
So to use an item of uniform to defeat the purpose of wearing a uniform seems bizarre in the extreme.
As I understand it from discussing this with the present Mrs Hughes who works in Abu Dhabi schools on a regular basis, the hijab is only worn by secondary school pupils, and never by primary children.
This seems a combination of parents who want to flaunt their devotion through their small children, even though it is not a proscribed religious observance that a hijab is worn before puberty, and schools who want to be seen as right-on and unwilling to appear prejudiced.
When small girls are marked out as different in order to appease the nonsense from two sets of adults who, by definition, as parents and as educators, should both know better, then something is seriously wrong.
By removing this equalisation you are introducing issues into the school, whether they be bullying or elitism. Schools should be for learning not for scoring political or religious points. And that applies to all religions. //
I am with YMB on this one.
The purpose of uniform is to enforce a school identity, not a religious preference - so by singling out small girls, it sets them aside from their peer group, which negates the purpose of uniform.
So to use an item of uniform to defeat the purpose of wearing a uniform seems bizarre in the extreme.
As I understand it from discussing this with the present Mrs Hughes who works in Abu Dhabi schools on a regular basis, the hijab is only worn by secondary school pupils, and never by primary children.
This seems a combination of parents who want to flaunt their devotion through their small children, even though it is not a proscribed religious observance that a hijab is worn before puberty, and schools who want to be seen as right-on and unwilling to appear prejudiced.
When small girls are marked out as different in order to appease the nonsense from two sets of adults who, by definition, as parents and as educators, should both know better, then something is seriously wrong.
Peter Pedant
/// Older English women used to wear head scarfs. ///
/// curlers up ere luv
wivva fag dribbling from the mouth - which of course was in full flow all the time in waking hours ///
Yes and such an image surely makes them unattractive to the opposite sex, but it is not fitting for a five year old girl is it?
Exactly the point these objectors are trying to get across.
/// Older English women used to wear head scarfs. ///
/// curlers up ere luv
wivva fag dribbling from the mouth - which of course was in full flow all the time in waking hours ///
Yes and such an image surely makes them unattractive to the opposite sex, but it is not fitting for a five year old girl is it?
Exactly the point these objectors are trying to get across.
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