Girl wins right to wear muslim dress in school.

Master_Fwiffo · Post by **Master_Fwiffo** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:29 am

Dead Head wrote:1. Religion has a place in schools only in so far as the curriculum should teach that there are W, X, Y, Z religions (and of course non-theist systems) and here's what they believe. It has no place in schools, whether private or public, especially whose primary purpose is to indoctrinate one solitary religion into children (i.e. "religious schools"). If at all, unilateral religious indoctrination to kids should be kept in the home and the synagogue/church/mosque/whereever.

I think your dead wrong here. A Private school, being private and all, has every right to teach whatever it feels nesscarry- religion included.

That's why its a Private school.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:31 am

they can teach the occults then?

I think you should check your definition of Private schools.

Master_Fwiffo · Post by **Master_Fwiffo** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:40 am

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:they can teach the occults then?

I think you should check your definition of Private schools.

Maybe 'Private School' has a diffrent meaning here in the US then over on your side of the globe.

I was under the impression that private schools were just that- schools set up to private (re: Non-governmental sponsored) schools.

If a bunch of occult guys want to set up their own private school, I cant think of a reason to stop them. I can encourage people to avoid that school, but I cant think of anything I can really do to stop them..

Dead Head · Post by **Dead Head** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:48 am

Master_Fwiffo wrote:I think your dead wrong here.

No. I didn't subscribe to those points, deliberately, as I've yet to weigh up many points and opinions. That's where you guys come in! :winkysmileywinky:

Master_Fwiffo · Post by **Master_Fwiffo** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:53 am

Dead Head wrote:
Master_Fwiffo wrote:I think your dead wrong here.
No. I didn't subscribe to those points, deliberately, as I've yet to weigh up many points and opinions. That's where you guys come in! :winkysmileywinky:

Ahhhh. Triksy little hobettsess...

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:05 am

Schools in the UK, public/Private whatever still have to abide by the law - and educational boards if they are to be accepted as 'legal' school.

Its actualy the same law in the US, either way it doesnt have a basis here in this discussion as the school in question is normal school.

On topic, nearly all schools in the UK have a uniform.

I agree with uniforms, for all the obvious reasons. its far easier to rip it out of the poor kid at a young age, the material world speaks volumes then.

by the time u leave school at 16 most ppl are mature enough to see past this.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:35 am

Master_Fwiffo wrote:
If you standarize the dress code, all you do is shift the target from clothes to something more personal. These brats will make fun of other kids, PERIOD. It *will* happen. Dont screw over everybody, target the bullies and punish them.

uh, worryingly, i agree with some of what Fwiff is saying. If our education systems did a better job of conveying a sence of social responsibility, kinship and resepct for individuals then what people wore wouldn't mean a fig.

of course, how you do that...

Post by **Kaylee** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:16 pm

Some form of incindiary device?

And it's true about bullying. In Primary school (6-11 I think?) and in secondary school (12-16) I was bullied dreadfully (big surprise?) despite having uniforms in the latter and own dress in the former.

Why? Because i had (even then) a distinctive and unusual voice (which now everyone says is sexy) because i looked unusual (now everyone says I look like some sort of Tolkein-esque elf) and because of my odd nature (which is now apparently one of my most endearing qualities).

Strange stuff bullying, but I suppose nobody ever said it had to make sense.

Then of course I ruined it by becoming a bully myself when I got older, due to all the garbage I was dealing with over my sexuality. Rats.