Britain's Strictest Headteacher Says Prayer Ban is Lawful as a 'Victory for All Schools'

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[michaelmontagu]

It wasn't discrimination. No one was allowed to pray, not just the Muslims.

[jacobyesiwant]

there’s a difference between being TOLD to pray, and using your own time to pray.

[joelmacinnes]

I thought the ban was during class time, I'd fully support that, but whats wrong with praying during break time? Nobodies forcing you to join in, thats a ridiculous rule

[shairafaiza]

A multi faith space is the obvious solution. It DOES work, I’ve been to several universities where it’s implemented and I pray my prayers, my Hindu and Sikh friends do their ceremonies and Christian’s come in to read their bibles and perform their devotionals. This is pure ignorance and an affront to the British values the state ingrained in us from an early age.

[itaz]

Clearly we don’t want British values of inclusion and acceptance in school and want to force kids to only be secular during their own free break time at school- so are we going to ban nativity plays, Christmas celebrations and Easter too now ?

[ispeakasifind]

If you dont agree with the school rules, don't send your kids there then, problem solved.

[georgelands]

To be honest, as an unashamed atheist, I should be wholeheartedly behind this. However, it's highly disturbing. School rules are not paramount. If people want to pray - and I'm firmly of the belief it is a futile activity - they should be allowed to. It's not inclusive, it is highly intrusive and prayer in no way interferes in the running of the school nor in the children's education. It shows weak leadership that they can't be inclusive and allow prayer and is control freakery at a perverted level.

[macsmiffy]

From 1988 Education Act: “All maintained schools must provide religious education and daily
collective worship for all registered pupils and promote their spiritual,
moral and cultural development.”

[POPE_FRANCS]

What's wrong with praying? Im not religious but i dont care if i see someone praying in front of me. Doesnt affect my day at all

[alfornolazio]

I agree with the school.they only needs to be English people in England. Everyone read the small print.

[vilmamaritz]

At my primary school the weekly assembly started with general inf. Then children whose parents did not want them to participate in religion left the hall. Then we had a reading from the Old Testament and sang a psalm. Then the Jewish kids left the hall. This was followed by a New Testament reading and a hymn. It taught us respect for faiths as the teachers also discussed different religions. Celebrate difference and learn from one another.

[olliesmusic]

Schools should have a designated prayer room. The ones I've been to have.

[MountainLion]

Awesome protect your freedom by taking away others. What harm does it do to allow pupils practice something thats important to them?

[michaelcorleone]

Ban all praying at school for every religion. If you want to do that go to a mosque, church, synagogue, temple places of worship not schools, not places of education!

[diglory]

How is prayer affecting inclusion? It’s the dumbest argument ever

[txmack]

it’s not discrimination so long as the ban applies to everyone. And that must include no christmas decorations, no chanuka decorations, nothing of any kind from any religious group. you are to study school subjects not practice religion. go to your place of worship or your home for that. keep it out of the schools.

[WastedFrog]

This comment section is absolutely braindead

[rexvaissiere]

When i was at school we had morning assembly with church of ENGLAND prays which were stopped because it upset other religions if this is stopped why should any religion be praticed in school in England

[possum]

We had Muslims at my school, they had access to an empty classroom during breaks for prayer. It didn’t disrupt anyone’s learning.

As for “creating divisions within the school” they had friends from lots of different backgrounds, were involved with sports, drama, music and art, just like the other kids. Praying didn’t cause any divisions.

If you throw a bunch of people together, they’re going to have different religions, different economic backgrounds, different cultures, races, religions, sexualities, and everything else you can think of. You’re actively teaching intolerance by banning prayer on all sides.

Things like this can push people towards religious extremism because now you’re infringing on their religious freedom, who otherwise wouldn’t have.
We already know they target young, impressionable teenagers, because they did that to Shamima Begum and countless other teens.

If you want to prevent that, you have to allow people room to be themselves. Allowing them a few minutes to pray is nothing, it harms no one.

[daffyddduck]

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