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Should Religious Rituals Be Banned In Schools?
//The headteacher of a school facing legal action over a ban on prayer rituals has defended the policy, arguing that it was vital in order to “maintain a successful learning environment where children of all races and religion can thrive”.
The case against Michaela community school in Brent, north-west London, which has been the subject of a two-day hearing at the high court in London this week, has been brought by one of its Muslim pupils, who claims the ban is discriminatory and is seeking to have it overturned.
Coppel said the prayer sessions led to growing segregation between non-Muslim and Muslim pupils in the playground, and that a number of Muslim children were observed by teachers applying peer pressure to other Muslim children, encouraging them to be more observant.
In one alleged incident described to the court, a child who had never previously worn a headscarf was pressured to wear one. A Muslim girl was said to have dropped out of the school choir after she was told by other Muslim children that it was haram (forbidden), while a number of other children were told they were “bad Muslims” for not praying and had begun to pray, according to written arguments before the court.//
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The parents were aware of the school policy in regard to religious observance before enrolling their child.
They cannot now try and alter that policy to fit their beliefs.
The answer is to send their child to a Muslim school which better suits their requirements.
The worry is, if their case is proven, it opens the floodgates for every school to be compelled to provide similar facilities for each and every denomination for pupils attending.
This is vexatious, and should be thrown out.
France is a secular state. Then again, so is the USA (for the moment).
I think that faith schools should be done away with; they only serve to perpetuate division. Religious beliefs could be taught as a subject of societal and historical interest, but religious instruction should not occur in schools.
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