Birmingham's "Trojan Horse" Education Issues

I guess I didn't log onto DrudgeReport one day because I have NO IDEA how I missed this...

Obvious immediate comparisson is to any other religious based schoool however the segregation based upon gender, violation of rights and the encouragment in poor nutrition seems a little bit of a problem.

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'Trojan horse' teacher breaks into girl's phone -Parent complains to police over school's action to uncover 'forbidden' relationship with a fellow 16-year-old pupil

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Tahir Alam, the chairman of governors at the school and the alleged ringleader of the takeover plot, has written that “girlfriend/boyfriend relationships?.? .?. are not acceptable practices according to Islamic teaching” and that schools should “prepare Muslim pupils to lead their personal and public lives in a manner consistent with their Islamic moral principles and values”.

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An inspection report by the Department for Education, leaked to The Telegraph, found that girls and boys were made to sit apart in some classes, “often with boys sitting towards the front of the class and girls at the back or around the sides”. In some lessons, teachers “gave [students] seats in which to sit in class by gender to avoid having to mix”.

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Staff said pupils preparing for GCSEs were asked to go on a fast, taking neither food nor drink, on May 1. “Pupils were starving themselves all day at a stressful time and then had an iftar [meal breaking the fast] in the evening in school, with prayers for the exams,” a member of staff said. The iftar is shown on the internal school calendar.

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