School Asks Pupils To ‘Fast’ For Gaza

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https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1987301/reform-blast-uk-school-asking-gaza-fast-labour

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/school-asks-pupils-to-fast-for-gaza/ar-AA1vCyr9

would you let your children take part?

[naomi24]

My children would have more sense than to join something like this.   What does it achieve?  Nothing.  Who does it help?   No one.  Completely futile exercise.

[Untitled]

so your master plan to thwart something you see as political interference in their education is not sending them to school for political reasons

brilliant

[Untitled]

"My children would have more sense than to join something like this."

Oh wow 🙄

[naomi24]

Pick yourself up, untitled.  You'll do yourself a mischief.

[webbo3]

Barry1010

\\Webbo, you could try and keep them at home but you can't force feed them//

You could do things to encourage them

[fender62]

political indoctrination by the backdoor, it's a place of education and not platform for individual protests ie teachers, the slow creep of islam, an insidious ideology, violent and misogynistic, how many muslim in the uk give tacit approval to violent jihad misogyny sharia 1st cousin marriage fgm, the uk becoming part of the great utopian caliphate.

[bednobs]

my daughter's school are always asking pupils to do stufffor various charities - wearing xmas jumpers, bringing in stuff for harvest festival, coppers for children in need, odd socks for anti bullying  and so on.  they are all voluntary, as is this.  Don't want to do it? just say no thanks

[fender62]

bednobs, but this is none of the stuff you mentioned, this is political, why not have a fast for afghani women who cannot be trained as midwives or medicine to save other women, or women in iran who were murdered for protesting about not having to wear a hijab, guess they are not towing the islamic line.

[bednobs]

is unicef political?  i disagree with donating stuff to the church, so i simply dont send anything in at harvest festival time.  Just like the parents/pupils  can refuse to participate in this if they don't agree with unicef

[New Judge]

"Don't want to do it? just say no thanks"

It doesn't quite work like that bednobs. I did some consultancy work in a couple of primary schools a few years ago. Diring my time it was "Red Nose" day. I observed the pupils' briefing for their activities for the day which included wearing specific non-uniform clothes and bringing "donations".

They may have been voluntary activities, but it was made very clear that any child who refused to participate would not be viewed on favourably. As a result some parents kept their children off school for the day. 

It's not as simple as saying "no thanks".

[bednobs]

in my daughters school it is - i just asked her.  shes never felt frowned upon for not participating

[Old_Geezer]

I'm sure the pupils can tell the staff where they can put their request to “fast for Gaza” on Friday. I know I would have done at that age.

 

Meanwhile surely the parents are already contacting the school board demanding those teachers involved are "let go", (apart from Palestinian parents that is).

[New Judge]

“Meanwhile surely the parents are already contacting the school board demanding those teachers involved are "let go", (apart from Palestinian parents that is).”

I don’t think you quite understand, OG. This is in Tower Hamlets, not Camberley.

Here’s an example of what happened when Muslim parents at another school in that borough objected to their children being provided with  “relationship and sex” education:

I chose that because it was the same borough as the school in the OP. But other examples elsewhere are available. Including this one, where a teacher received death threats and was forced into hiding  after he showed a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed during a lesson. The religious studies teacher was forced to move house after protests outside Batley Grammar School in 2021:

https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2024-03-25/teacher-forced-into-hiding-over-prophet-mohammed-cartoon-let-down

I would imagine that any attempt to remove those responsible for organising the fast at George Green’s school would be met with a similar response. That said, looking at the school’s philosophy, I would not be too surprised if those responsible for hiring and firing were among those organising the fast.