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Posted By: Jim Carroll
09-Jun-14 - 03:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
"The report covered in some detail - no Islamic plots, no bomb-making classes - just schools teaching religion - with a few unsubstantiated rumours thrown in".
Most of the 'problems' described are common to most schools run by religious bodies (which I don't approve of in any circumstances and whatever the religion).
O Bearded One.
Are you suggesting that Ofsted found no Islamism because they didn't do their job properly, or simply because they lied about not having done so?
As I said - a damp squib, with an added advantage that Muslim students in Britain are reckoned to be educationally the highest cultural group of achievers in the land, and the most dedicated to learning - official.
"My country is under attack. Do you care?"
Then he must know what it feels like to be any Palestinian man, woman or child living next to a country dedicated to terrorism in order to push its boundries in order to create a monocultural state - poor basrtard - my heart bleeds for him!
Jim Carroll

GOVE TOLD TO LAUNCH 'DAWN RAIDS' ON SCHOOLS
Cameron takes charge after ministers' bust-up
Francis Elliott, Greg Hurst

David Cameron has ordered Michael Gove to start work on "dawn- raid" inspections after officials found schools covering up evidence of Islamist infiltration.
The prime minster, angered and embarrassed by a bust-up between his education and home secretaries on the issue, will take charge today of the response to two official reports on allegations of extremist Muslims taking over Birmingham schools.
Mr Gove and Theresa May have been summoned to a meeting in No 10 early today in what amounts to a further public rebuke for the rift first exposed by The Times last week.
Rattled by Labour's accusation that in-fighting is hampering the govern¬ment's response, Downing Street re¬leased last night the key findings of the reports and what action it will take.
One of the most serious findings is that staff at one of the schools involved used the notice period given before an inspection to stage "hastily arranged shows of cultural inclusivity", among them lessons on Christianity and an assembly on Easter.
Speaking before today's meeting, Mr Cameron said: "Protecting our children is one of the first duties of government and that is why the issue of alleged Islamist extremism in Birmingham schools demands a robust response.
The education secretary will now ask Sir Michael Wilshaw [the head of Ofsted] to look into allowing any school to be inspected at no notice and stop¬ping schools having the opportunity to cover up activities which have no place in our society."
The disclosures will begin in the early afternoon as Ofsted publishes full inspection reports for five schools where the problems were most acute. It will also publish findings into 16 other schools in the "Trojan Horse" scandal.
Sir Michael will recommend new rules to curb the infiltration of schools, including tighter vetting of governors and more stringent checks on their interests and activities.
At the same time, Mr Gove will pub¬lish reports into visits to a handful of the schools by staff from the Department for Education's funding agency, which monitors academies. This will raise more concerns about radicalisation than those from Ofsted.
It is these reports that have led to demands for "dawn-raid" inspections.
One, about Oldknow school, says that "staff told us that they had been instructed to add Christianity to learning because of our visit". The report adds:
We were told by two staff members that the assembly [on Easter and Chris¬tianity] had also been put on especially for our benefit." Officials also found that a time-tabled literacy lesson was switched for an RE lesson on Christianity before the inspection. Government sources say that the findings of the Ofsted inspections also underline the need for "no-notice" in-spections. "The previous inspections Pupils in a Birmingham primary school were warned by teachers about "white prostitutes" and "hellfire", a report says.
One teacher was said to have led a chant at an assembly, asking children: "Do we believe in Christmas?" The pupils chanted back: "No, we don't"
Teachers and children at Oldknow Academy, in Small Heath, were said to refer to Christians as "kaffirs", an Ara¬bic word meaning unbeliever or infidel.
A series of criticisms of Oldknow are set out in a report by the Education Funding Agency, part of the Depart¬ment for Education, which monitors academies although its chief role is to check their accounts. Concerns include the conduct of school assemblies on Fridays, the chief day of worship for Muslims, The Mail on Sunday reported.
"We were told by teachers that non- Muslim teaching staff are no longer allowed to take Friday assemblies," the report said.
"In separate interviews, staff told us that in Friday assemblies, occasionally words have been used such as 'white prostitute' and 'hellfire' which they felt were inappropriate for young children."
The criticisms of Oldknow Academy by DfE officials appear to be more serious than those by Ofsted, which made a separate inspection of the school but was said to have found no evidence of anti-Christian chanting.
Ofsted previously declared Oldknow outstanding in all areas when it inspected the school in January 2013, but in its new report the watchdog declares the school inadequate and to be in need of special measures.
The inspectorate found that at Saltley, another of the schools at the centre of the allegations, governors spent substantial amounts of money "with no obvious benefit" and said some teachers and other staff complained that they were treated unequally "because of their beliefs, religion or background". Saltley was rated good when it was last inspected in May last year However, inspectors returned last autumn after being alerted to concerns about governance and warned that the "dysfunctional relationship between the governors and the head teacher is damaging the school's capacity to improve".
The DfE will also publish its own report on Park View Academy. It was declared outstanding two years ago but will be downgraded to "in need of special measures". It was said by Ofsted to be failing to prepare its mostly Muslim pupils for wider society, although there was no evidence of extremist activity.
Inspectors said that children at the secondary school had "limited" understanding of different cultures and beliefs and a "superficial" grasp of awareness of life elsewhere in Britain.
This echoed concerns of inspectors about Golden Hillock, a secondary school that Park View took over last year as an academy sponsor. Ofsted said that its pupils were at risk of radicalisation and of growing up in "cultural isolation".
Ofsted said that senior staff and governors at Golden Hillock were not doing enough to keep pupils safe from extremist views. The school attacked the findings as a "misrepresentation" and said there was no evidence that the school tolerated or promoted radicalisation or extremism. Park View Educational Trust is preparing a legal challenge to Ofsted reports.