This is the problem with the free school model - championed by Bliar's Labour as well as the Tories. No accountability, no way to measure performance. Just throw some money about and ask no questions.
Kids shouldn’t be educated in old office blocks. Regardless of all the other issues around free schools.
Just saw a shocking piece in the BBC Six o'clock news tonight.
So many unregistered schools and Offsted have been going in to schools making recommendations and nothing has been done about it. Apparently been going on now for 10 years, so successive governments.
Offsted apparently only have the powers to recommend and have none to close down.
They showed footage of an ultra orthodox Jewish school who were clearly teaching for longer than allowed by law and you can also see two boys being hit by teachers in the footage. They both seem very scared and one boy cowers away when the teacher enters the classroom. Within seconds the teacher slaps him hard.
There are also lots of Muslim schools and the conditions within the places are that of squalor. Poor hygiene and dangerous.
They uncovered a book used to teach children in a Muslim school in Birmingham which taught that homosexuals should be killed, that a wife should not deny her husband sex and that a woman who wore perfume was an adulterer.
For God's sake shut them down and shut them down now! There's the next generation of home grown terrorists in the offing right there!
There's 300 unregistered schools Offsted know about and so far they have only been able to check 150 of them.
Politicians of all parties need to be held accountable.
Shut them down. They won’t because “CofE schools are oversubscribed”. It’s worth the collateral damage, shut down all non secular schools.
Yes I saw this report also, very worrying. We talk of living in a forward thinking society but these "schools" are allowed to teach this outdated nonsense unchecked. There should he an inquiry into why these Ofsted reports are simply gathering dust somewhere.
There's that one in walsgrave, where do they play and do pe?Kids shouldn’t be educated in old office blocks. Regardless of all the other issues around free schools.
There's that one in walsgrave, where do they play and do pe?
Despite being educated at Catholic schools, I agree. No place for religiously driven education in this day and age.Shut them down. They won’t because “CofE schools are oversubscribed”. It’s worth the collateral damage, shut down all non secular schools.
Ofsted don't have any enforcement powers as far as I'm aware. They're an inspector but it's up to the SoS or LEA what they do with a Grade 4.Yes I saw this report also, very worrying. We talk of living in a forward thinking society but these "schools" are allowed to teach this outdated nonsense unchecked. There should he an inquiry into why these Ofsted reports are simply gathering dust somewhere.
Typical case in point, our neighbours were devout Christians and always at church. They went to bible studies and Sunday school and taught their children at home too.Despite being educated at Catholic schools, I agree. No place for religiously driven education in this day and age.
Nope. No power. That is exactly what they were saying tonight. The only power they have is to inspect and be granted access to carry out their inspection.Ofsted don't have any enforcement powers as far as I'm aware. They're an inspector but it's up to the SoS or LEA what they do with a Grade 4.
Typical case in point, our neighbours were devout Christians and always at church. They went to bible studies and Sunday school and taught their children at home too.
I'm sure any religious family does the same. If you are religious you teach your children at home anyway.
Why do you then need to also send your child to a Islamic school, or a Catholic school, or a CofE school?
School should just teach about what each religion stands for and of tolerance of religions.
I don't see any need for faith schools.
It's worrying in the US too, because there you have schools teaching Creationism and nowt else.
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