New Ofsted chair Hamid Patel said ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal alienated Muslims
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/new-ofsted-chair-hamid-patel-said-trojan-horse-alienated-muslims-denied-claims-takeover-plot
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New Ofsted chair Hamid Patel said ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal alienated Muslims
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/new-ofsted-chair-hamid-patel-said-trojan-horse-alienated-muslims-denied-claims-takeover-plot
Posted by nimobo
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Podcast called Trojan horse affair.
I was a teacher and governor at the time of this and it never sat right with me what was being alleged. When I listened to the podcast it was a far more plausible explanation of what went on.
Michel Gove (Brexiteer) denied they did anything wrong. I am more inclined to believe that systemic racism is at play.
Trojan Horsing halal meat into all our restaurants. But it’s all ok.
As usual this thread is a pile of shit opinions with no one reading the article. Fuck Reddit man
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It seems quite risky to allow religious conservatives (of **any** religion) to control the _school inspection body_ in a liberal democracy, for example what if they’re sympathetic to parents [who protest about LGBT teaching in school](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48294017)? What if their private beliefs start influencing how they respond to things like that?
Well done, one of the worst comment sections I have seen for a while and given some of the comments regarding 9/11 a lot of you really shouldn’t be commenting on a story about education given you clearly neglected it yourselves.
Now to the actual story the problem I have is his quote here:
>Patel asserted that “Trojan Horse intensified the feeling amongst some Muslims that there was no safe space in which to have a voice.
>”Many felt that expressing their faith openly would give rise to establishment suspicion.”
Regardless of the claims of the Trojan horse scandal teachers do need to separate their personal beliefs. We all must do so in a working environment. I work with religious people who have th common decency to keep it to themselves.
>In reality, however, while there are faith-designated schools, there is no such thing as a secular state school in England. All publicly funded schools, including academies and free schools, have a statutory duty to provide a daily act of collective worship and provide compulsory religious education.
teach kids about religions, various religions, their practices, their history in the context of RE classes. However there should be no provision for collective worship outside of say an assembly. This isn’t something that brings people together rather highlights the differences. Let the kids be bloody kids. There is no such thing as a Christian or Muslim or Sikh 7 year old but simply a 7 year old with religious parents.