Saturday, June 20, 2015
Orthodox Jewish schools that teach next to no English are being rated as 'outstanding'
A study of Ofsted reports on independent Haredi or ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools during the period 2007-2014 found they were rated as “good” or “outstanding” 71 per cent of the time when inspected by a member of the Jewish community, but only 22 per cent of the time when inspected by a non-Haredi inspector.
The study was carried out by the British Humanist Association (BHA), which is campaigning against faith schools, particularly their “discriminatory admission, employment and curriculum policies” as well as government financial support for such schools.
They launched the study after hearing evidence given to an All-Party Parliamentary Group last year by a former British-born Haredi school pupil who described how he grew up in north London speaking almost no English and received less than an hour’s non-religious curriculum teaching a day.
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/orthodox-jewish-schools-that-teach-next-to-no-english-are-beingrated-as-outstanding--byq6N4OoZx
The study was carried out by the British Humanist Association (BHA), which is campaigning against faith schools, particularly their “discriminatory admission, employment and curriculum policies” as well as government financial support for such schools.
They launched the study after hearing evidence given to an All-Party Parliamentary Group last year by a former British-born Haredi school pupil who described how he grew up in north London speaking almost no English and received less than an hour’s non-religious curriculum teaching a day.
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/orthodox-jewish-schools-that-teach-next-to-no-english-are-beingrated-as-outstanding--byq6N4OoZx
Comments:
Post a Comment
