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| Deleted User | Oct 25 2010, 10:38 PM Post #1 |
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integration show them this Muslim children will be forced to go to Christian school MUSLIM parents will be forced to send their children to a church school under controversial plans being drawn up by Islington Council. Council bosses are planning to close down Moreland Primary School and transfer its pupils to a new and enlarged St Luke’s Church of England School. But the majority of pupils at Moreland in Goswell Road, Finsbury, are Muslim – and parents are worried about their children going to a CofE school. The council insists that St Luke’s is experienced in catering for children of all faiths. Shukre Salah, 35, believes her eight-year-old daughter child will end up having to leave the school. She said: “I’m so angry. They are saying that there will be places for Christian children and places for children who live nearby. “I don’t live nearby. I live in Highbury and I am a Muslim and a single mum. My daughter will have to leave, and what will I do? Where will she go? Other schools are full up. I feel completely discriminated against.” Fellow Muslim mum Amara Small, 31, who also sends her daughter to Moreland, said: “I am just totally flabbergasted. I thought when we petitioned for improvements to Moreland, we might get a thumbs-up for a new building. I didn’t know anything about getting rid of our school. “I don’t have a problem mixing with a CofE school but I do have an issue with the policy. If you look at Moreland, it is a high proportion Muslim. What’s going to happen to all those children?” A number of non-Muslim parents are also concerned about their children having to go to a faith school. Ann Salmon, 38, said: “I wouldn’t feel comfortable sending my 10-year-old to a church school. Moreland is a mixed school with different people from various different cultures. St Luke’s is a church school. How would everybody fit that criteria?” Moreland is currently housed in a leaking and run-down 1960s building – and parents have been petitioning for it to be improved. But Islington Council has decided that it wants to close down Moreland – which is rated satisfactory by Ofsted inspectors and regularly attracts only half the pupils it has space for – and transfer the pupils to St Luke’s, which is rated outstanding and is regularly oversubscribed. Council bosses envisage that around half the places at the new school would be for St Luke’s existing – and largely Christian – intake, while the remainder would be for local children of all backgrounds. In order to accommodate all the pupils, the council would demolish both Moreland and St Luke’s and build a new and expanded St Luke’s School on Moreland’s Goswell Road site. The current St Luke’s site in Radnor Street would then be turned over to housing – half luxury flats and half affordable – to pay for the scheme. Councillor Richard Watts, Islington Council’s executive member for schools, acknowledged that the proposals would be of concern to some Muslim parents - but pointed out that St Luke’s already takes in children of different faiths, including Muslims. He said: “The extra places that will be created at the enlarged St Luke’s will be for children of all backgrounds to apply for. It will be a church school but it will welcome children of all faiths and none. “Some Muslim parents will have questions about this. But others would prefer a school of faith rather than a secular one.” Islington Council intends to consult on the plans over the coming year. If they are given the go-ahead, the new school would open in 2013. link http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/muslim_children_will_be_forced_to_go_to_christian_school_1_705276 |
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| Deleted User | Oct 25 2010, 10:49 PM Post #2 |
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Hmm, I feel sorry for the school these kids will be sent to... I give it a year before all meals are Halal (if they are not already) and Christmas is banned. Seen it time and time again... Sad, so sad. |
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| Deleted User | Oct 25 2010, 11:07 PM Post #3 |
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You are missing the point read the article
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| Deleted User | Oct 25 2010, 11:09 PM Post #4 |
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If all religion was kept out of all schools there wouldn't be a problem. Simple. |
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| Deleted User | Oct 25 2010, 11:19 PM Post #5 |
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So true, religion should be a private matter and not forced upon others. This includes those bloody jehovah's witnesses who keep visiting me. |
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| tobias malachi | Oct 25 2010, 11:38 PM Post #6 |
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You are lucky I am blacked by the JW's I used to enjoy quoting the Gospel of Thomas to them also The Gospel of Barnabus. A lot of muslims would prefer a faith school Christian if there was not one of their own. I bet outwardly they are moaning and wringing their hands, but inside jumping up and down and shouting A RESULT. |
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| Deleted User | Oct 26 2010, 12:38 AM Post #7 |
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They can't wait to use the 'D' word can they? |
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| Gorgie | Oct 26 2010, 12:45 AM Post #8 |
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OH POOR THEM IMAGINE GROWING UP IN A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY, BUT HAVING TO GO TO A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL. It's not as if Christianity is being forced upon them like Islam is to us. |
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| 2020 | Oct 26 2010, 02:19 AM Post #9 |
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it is not discrimintory against them, but discriminating us the british, and its what they do, undertones of racism, we complain they call us the racist. It is they who are the racists, when they shout such words, we are already nearly at the point of being a the minoritory of the population, slowly over taken by communists letting them speak such words, and calling us facists when we stand against it. not every one is a facist so why call them that.....to get the attention, the louder voice so results go their way all the time |
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