03-24-2006, 11:33 PM
Don't get me wrong, I can understand why you would want your children to go to a muslim school. But that only solves a short term problem. What worries me is the lack of integration, which seperate faith schools do nothing to help. Get down to basics, and theres little difference between what kids need to learn. 2+2= 4, and log tables are damned confusing things in any language :D Wouldn't it be possible for seperate religious classes within schools, to educate children in that area? Besides, don't they learn that sort of thing at home, and in the mosque?
When I was at Primary School there was only one coloured kid there, but no-one ever saw him as black,he was just another kid. If children can learn that theres not much difference between them at that age, then it helps later in life. Keeping children seperate just helps to breed distrust. You only have to go look at Bradford and Oldham in the north of England to see the problem caused by immigrants keeping to themselves. Both sides distrust each other, and it often boils over into violence.
People fear what they don't know, and to quote Yoda "Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering"
On seperate sex schools, TBH I don't have much of a problem with that. Most schools in the UK used to be like that, and there are still a few around, but education reforms in the 70's changed all that. But research has shown that boys actually perform better in single sex schools, although there wasn't much difference for girls.
As for teasing, it doesn't really matter much what the subject matter is, kids will always tease other kids over something.