From the Metro, the Sunday Times and the Independent
A TEENAGE pupil was suspended by their school for breaching its “Islamic ethos” after chatting with a student of the opposite sex. The pupil, from Al-Khair secondary school in Croydon, south London … was sanctioned for breaching the school’s behaviour policy, which forbids all forms of communication between boys and girls.
The Sunday Times is not naming the pupil involved or identifying their gender for legal reasons.
A parent complained about the policy saying that the school was failing to integrate pupils into British society.
They said: ‘How are these kids going to integrate in the wider shape of society when they have to work in the same places that [people of the opposite sex] are working? This is totally nonsense. To me, as a Muslim parent, if my daughter or son goes to a Muslim school and she or he speaks in good manner to any boy or girl, regardless of what background, it doesn’t matter, because I believe this is not against my religion. What is this nonsense policy? I cannot understand it.’
“‘Free mixing’ or communication which is not in line with our Islamic ethos through any medium (e.g. verbal, email, messaging etc.) between non-mahram pupils in our senior schools.
While male and female students at the school are based in the same building, they are taught in separate classes.
Mark Thomas, spokesman for the school, said: ‘The school’s policy is clearly published and parents send their children [to the school] in the full knowledge of the code, which only prohibits communication not conducive to the educational environment we promote.’
…the school has responded to the claims, calling the article “deliberately simplistic and misleading” in a statement on its website. The statement says the paper was “clearly informed” that the pupil’s suspension was not for “innocent communication” as has been alleged, but for a “considerably more serious and sensitive matter which caused considerable distress to another pupil.”
The school also alleged that the paper “ignored” offers of a meeting “to get the full facts” before publication.
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