English Schools get right to ban Muslim veils
By harsh_h2o
@harsh_h2o (20)
India
March 20, 2007 11:57pm CST
Students in Egland could be banned from wearing full-face muslim veils for security or educational reasons under government guide lines.
The guidance paper from the Department for Education and Skills would leave it uo to individual school head teacher to decide what pupils should and should not be allowed to wear in class."if they feel any garment imposes on a child ability to learn or is a saftey or security issue they could be banned," the spokesman said
The new school guidelines come after a british girl lost a legal battle a year ago to be allowed to wear full islamic dress in school.The DFES sais its guidence will recommend the teachers take into account the religious requiremnets of some pupils to wear items such as turban.
Referring to full face veil, some teachers said"it is difficult to read a childs expression or understand what is being said."
SHOULD MUSLIM VEILS BE BANNED IN ENGLISH SCHOOLS?
1 response
@qouniq (1966)
• Malaysia
21 Mar 07
this issue is been a hot topic for a long period since before and i personally think that it's actually not a big issue for the school to let the muslim student to wear veil at the school. It is nothing got to go with any security or difficult to read the student expression or whatever they said. One thing which we all should have to think and always remember that even without a veil, the criminal still can be happen. And as far as i know that there are still no crime made by a student who wearing veil at the school. This all are only propaganda to make it look unsafe when the student with veil are around.
