Update: UK teacher who punished students for not worshipping Allah officially suspended

Would it be disciplinary action to seat him in the school yard or town square wearing a dunce cap?

"Other practice issues"

I wonder what that's all about.

They were made to wear "muslim headdress" and perform shahada!

The teacher asked if any of the girls had a bottle of water, when a bottle was produced the teacher apparently proceeded to wash the child's feet.

All this without parental permission.

Here is the Daily Telegraph story from before the teacher was suspended. (I appreciate this has been covered in a previous Jihadwatch post).

This is what is happening in my country. Day in day out Islam is being given special treatment and is actively promoted by the "establishment".

This is all done in the name of appeasing the very religion whose teachings were the catalyst for the 7/7 bombings, attempted 21/7 bombings and failed Glasgow airport bombings.

Bomb our country and murder our citizens? We'll let you decide how we change our country to accommodate you. Just shout victim after your co-religionists have set the bombs off and marched through the streets calling for the destruction of the country that shelters them, and our government will give you the keys to the door.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2247388/Schoolboys-disciplined-for-%27refusing-to-pray-to-Allah%27.html

"Would it be disciplinary action to seat him in the school yard or town square wearing a dunce cap?"
Posted by: undaunted

You forgot tar and some feathers!

Nice touch, Hermit.

IF the teacher likes Islam so much, send the teacher to Lahore, Pakistan with a one way ticket.

It's time for the parents of these non-Muslim school children to express most vehemently their righteous indignation. That's right, give the islamofascists a taste of their own rhetoric. The teacher should be more than suspended, which is temporary. The teacher should be fired and stripped of her teaching credential. In todays political climate in the U.K. this was nothing less than a human rights crime. It won't be punished, of course, because the crime was committed against infidels.

Suspension is a step in the right direction toward renouncing dhimmification. The ultimate solution would be to get the British government out of the education business. Then Catholics could learn catholic rites in Catholic School. Jews could study the Torah in their schools. Now what can be done with a supremacist ideology that masquerades as a religion?...that is the 5 million pound question.

I wonder what lessons the teacher gave the kids in the proper way to make Jihad? Also was the teacher going to show the kids how to cut the throat of a large mammal in celebration of the Eid?

DaveMate.. I feel you.. you're only slightly ahead of us Germans who are going throught the same crap.

If "H" wins the White House then life here in the US of A were I now live will be worse than yours.

You should see what wide parts of Brooklyn already look like..

Suspended? What about cultural sensitivity training by the Church of England? Paging the Royal Protector of the Faith - Her Royal Highness! Paging the head of the Church of England!

/sarc.

Suspending this teacher is a small start, hardly far sighted. Parents of these students at Alsager High should be researching whether the RE programme was sanctioned by Cheshire County Council . It can be argued that the lesson & materials involved went beyond accepted curriculum based on the following:

http://www.cheshire.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/EBE38EB4-6566-4916-B3B3-D0F04275316B/0/PrimaryGuide.pdf

Point #25. Religious Education

In community and voluntary controlled schools
religious education is given in accordance with
the Cheshire Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education.
Parents have the right to withdraw their children from religious education if they so wish and they may also withdraw their chidlren from the school
in order to receive, elsewhere, religious
education of a kind not provided in the school.
The Council's approval must be obtained in this
latter case for such periods as are considered
reasonable. In aided schools religious education is given in accordance with the school's Trust Deed.

*****************************

http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/_doc/8342/Circular%201%2094%20pt1.pdf

Page 13 discusses specific requirements based on type of school funding and states:
Must make RE syllabus available on request (paragraph 122)

Point 16 Aims of RE
Religious education in schools should seek: to develop pupils' knowledge, understanding and awareness of Christianity, as the predominant religion in Great Britain, and the other principal religions represented in the the country; to encourage respect for those holding
different beliefs; and to help promote pupils' spiritual, moral, cultural and mental development.

Page 15 of 21

CONTENT of RE

31. The Education Reform Act 1988 requires that all new syllabuses, ie those adopted on or
after 29 September 1988, must 'reflect the fact that the religious traditions in Great Britain are in the main Christian whilst taking account of the teaching and practices of the other principal religions represented in Great Britain.'

32. The law has always stated that agreed syllabuses must be non-denominational. Accordingly, they must not require teaching by
means of any catechism or formulatory which distinctive of any particular relgious denomination. Teaching about a particular catechism or formulary, for example as part of a comparative study, is not prohibited. Syllabuses must not be designed to convert pupils, or to urge a particular religion or geligious belief on pupils.

33. A syllabus which is to meet the statutory requirements must give sufficient particulars of what is to be taught for it to be clear that the teaching carried out in pursuance of that syllabus would be consistent with the requirement
given in paragraph 31. It is not enough simply to be able to say that the teaching might be capable of meeting those requirements. It is in this respect that the syllabuses analysed by the NCC were found to have fallen short of what was required. Some syllabuses come with a detailed
associated handbook or other guidance, which would not normally be considered a mandatroy part of the syllabus unless it had been agreed
formally by the local conference to constitute part of the syllabus. A syllabus which does not on its own meet the legal requirements cannot be
made to do so by the addition of a hnadbook which has not been agreed as part of that syllabus by the conference.

34. The effect of the provision in the 1988 Act is that a syllabus must be based on both Christiantiy and the other principal religions represented in this country, and on their religious traditions, practices and teaching. The
syllabus should indicate at what ages or stages the particular subject matter in relation to each
religion should be taught. This does not however mean that all religions have to be taught in equal depth or that all of them have to be taught at each key stage. Indeed, it would not be educationally practicable to do wo, if they are to be studied with appropriate
rigour.

Having the students wear the garb, assume the posture and state the prayers in Arabic, particularly the shahada is indoctrination. This MUST NOT be accepted as programme material. These parents have an opportunity to step up to the plate and ensure they clear this up, not just at Alsager High but insist a thorough investigation involves all RE school programming throughout the UK.

For disciplinary action, why not a good Islamic punishment: a public flogging.

Sue her.

Naive British teacher in Sudan names class mascot, a stuffed bear, Mohammed. She is imprisoned, and the populace calls for her death, or lashings at the very least.

Abominably stupid teacher in England forces Islam on her young pupils. She given a suspension...

“The teacher asked if any of the girls had a bottle of water, when a bottle was produced the teacher apparently proceeded to wash the child's feet. “

DaveMate

Do you have a link for that DaveMate? If it’s true, it is incredibly inappropriate behaviour. There are very strict guidelines about how a teacher can touch a child, and I’m pretty sure that taking off a child’s shoes and socks and then touching their feet doesn’t meet them. A lot of people would find that very creepy indeed.

Celsius

Now that you mention it you are right!

Al BBC Radio 4 did a programme about a hill walk by the Boy Scouts. In the course of it thay made great play of the fact that when one of the boys twisted his ankle Scout "guidelines" required the leader to ask the childs permission in front of witnesses before touching the injured foot.

But I expect there will be a get out, there always is for the PC crowd.

Celsius wrote:

“The teacher asked if any of the girls had a bottle of water, when a bottle was produced the teacher apparently proceeded to wash the child's feet. “

DaveMate

Do you have a link for that DaveMate? If it’s true, it is incredibly inappropriate behaviour.
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This came up on the original thread, also. I think it sprang from ambiguous phrasing in the original story. Here it is:

"She said the pupils were asked if they had water on them, and when one girl produced a bottle, the teacher began washing her feet with it."

I believe this meant that the teacher washed *her own feet* with this girl's water--still very inappropriate, not to mention unsanitary.

This is "wudu", or symbolic Muslim purification before prayer. I suppose we should be glad that this school doesn't already sport expensive wudu baths in the restrooms--unlike some universities and airports in the US.