(March 30, 2014 at 10:26 pm)Aral Gamelon Wrote:(March 30, 2014 at 10:21 pm)sven Wrote: Well, the results are overwhelming. Perhaps not so surprising, given the nature of this site.
I've been following this subject pretty closely on this side of the atlantic.
There have been several news stories about muslim schools that break the law by changing the curriculum and having separate classrooms for girls and boys, not teaching boys and girls the same things.
This is a major problem, because its been discovered that pupils from some muslim schools do much worse in the national tests than those from public schools, on average. Apparently, this is simply because they are not taught sufficiently in certain subjects, and in some cases not taught at all.
In one school it was discovered that thirty percent of of the lesson time was spent on studying the Koran.
Some parts of certain subjects were not taught to girls at all. Girls were strongly discouraged by teachers to seek a higher education. The reasoning behind all this was apparently that women do not need that knowledge and education in their adult lives.
Interestingly, several of these schools reported false curriculums to the school authorities. They all receive sponsorship from the state, as well as the 'school money' that is given to all pupils that go to private schools. The tax payers, no matter their beliefs, are funding schools that give inadequate education and treat pupils in an illegal manner.
In one christian school, it was discovered that the textbooks on history, biology and social sciences contained false information. The history books were shown to contain anti-semitic and racist passages. There was no education about reproduction, and no sexual education. Many of the math and physics classes had been replaced by bible studies. Nothing was taught about other religions except christianity.
I'd be very interested in having the links to these news stories if you wouldn't mind.
I was a little unclear perhaps. These were Swedish schools.
Hm. Now it seems I have to pay a subscription to browse older articles. Maybe there is a workaround. I'll have a look at it tomorrow.
