And On It Goes...

[bazwillrun]

more kow towing and bending over to suit muslims

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/12084785/Exams-to-be-taken-earlier-in-the-day-to-fit-around-Ramadan-exam-boards-say.html

why not just give them the country...oh, hold on ! ...

[Prudie]

Well that's what I thought but AH usually puts // when quoting a previous post :-0

Anyway if I have to go to church I'm obliged to put something in the collection bag. Doesn't mean I want to or that I'm a good person.

[Togo]

//I'm obliged to put something in the collection bag. Doesn't mean I want to or that I'm a good person//

Haha prudie. Succinct.

[naomi24]

andy-hughes, // I don't think people should be disadvantaged because of their religious practices.//

And I don’t think anyone should be inconvenienced by other people’s religious practices. If Muslim students want to take exams they may, but they shouldn’t expect the system to be changed specifically to accommodate them – and neither should we.

//Catch Christians doing that at Christmas!//

I trust that’s a joke.

maggiebee, // I did see photographs of muslims helping out during the recent flooding.//

I expect they were also victims of the floods.

[Svejk]

The AB virtue signallers in a few years.

[Ric.ror]

Why don't they set two exams - the first early for the students of Muslim faith, and the other later for non- muslims. That would also give exam markers a longer marking time

[viv41]

Totally agree with you baz, but we are voices in the wilderness, I'm afraid !

[naomi24]

Ric.ror, // Why don't they set two exams - the first early for the students of Muslim faith, and the other later for non- muslims.//

Why should they? If people want to live in a western society, they should accept that they are part of that society. They shouldn't expect special concessions.

[Colmc54]

It has been pointed out that I opened a discussion that was already taking place. I apologise for this but it was because this latest appeasement could directly affect the academic prospects for many of our young people by making them have to sit so many exams in one day, including my own discovery that members of my own family were affected, that I posted without due research of ongoing discussions.

We are now a secular country. The majority of us have been shown to have rejected all forms of superstition whether institutionalised in the form of religions or not.

Yet our young people are paying the price for the naivety of our politicians and the self-appointed PC intelligentsia who dominate the media of this country.

Everything we do to placate the non-integrated is seen as a sign of weakness not strength. So now we have to integrate with them.

[jno]

good grief, is this nonsense still going on?

It's not happening. Does anyone actually read what's happened rather than frothing at the mouth about what might happen?

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jan/15/no-plan-move-exams-ramadan-ofqual-ofsted

[vetuste_ennemi]

The discussion among OFQUAL, OFSTED and the "Muslim community" (whoever they are) has happened, JNO, even if in this case the demand for preferred treatment has been rejected. Haven't you grasped the moral issue which prompted the poster's question?

[vetuste_ennemi]

The last question was rhetorical.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Froth in the mouth is better, perhaps, than froth in the brain.

[vetuste_ennemi]

To make the point clearer (froth I mean): one impedes only speech; the other impedes thought.

[Colmc54]

I'm going to hear this from my niece before I believe you. But the attempt to bring our scholars into line with the time-line on this story speaks volumes for the imposition on the rational majority of superstition driven garbage imposed on our children by people who are here yes, but they are about 500+ years behind the rest of us and they are determined to keep it that way.

[Colmc54]

My niece has been told she still has to sit 3 A-Level exams in one day (BTW the number of Muslim pupils in the school is zero). She and her father have complained to the school and I understand something is being done but what, as yet remains unclear.