Australia Muslim school rejected

[Sweetpea]

Authorities in an Australian town have rejected proposals to allow an Islamic school to be built there.
Councillors for Camden, a small town on the outskirts of Sydney, unanimously voted against the proposed school for 1200 pupils.
The councillors said they based their decision solely on planning grounds, citing an internal report about its environmental impact.
The proposed development had met with fierce local opposition.
Camden's authorities received some 3,200 submissions from the public about the school and only 100 in favour. The BBC's Nick Bryant in Sydney says Camden does not have a large Muslim population so most of the pupils for the proposed school would have had to be brought in by bus from Sydney, an hour's drive away.

"We're quite happy to integrate, we happily integrate with Italians, Greeks, English, Scottish - this town has every nationality. Muslims do not fit in this town - we are Aussies, OK?"

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We already have them, great ain't it? Hubby wants to go back, maybe we will

[terrywit]

toyed with posting that myself.......

[Hekna]

I personally don't agree with any single faith schools - muslim, jewish, catholic etc. I think it can only promote separatism. I enjoyed being in a very well mixed primary and secondary school and getting the chance to learn about various cultures and religions from the first hand experiences of my friends. If you make something separate they become 'diffeferent', part of the 'unknown' and I don't think that is very healthy.

In principle, I agree with Henka. Problem is, that year on year faith schools well outperform the rest of the state funded sector by a long way.

Only because money is no object.

Originally Posted by von Clausewitz

Only because money is no object.

I beg to differ, I think that it's because they are more inclined to drum moral principles of right and wrong into kids. My nephew attends a C of E school and the kids are very well behaved and actually take an interest in study; My other nephew attends a regular comprehensive in the same area, and the standards are like chalk and cheese. Throwing money at education does nothing, as recent histroy has proven.

[Sweetpea]

I have worked in three independent schools. In all, the kids were 10 times better behaved than any state school. All had better chances of an Oxbridge placing.

However, my own daughter, state school educated, did win a place at Cambridge, but refused it, as the course she wanted was not broad enough at Cambridge, she went instead to Royal Holloway.

[terrywit]

Originally Posted by churchill

My other nephew attends a regular comprehensive in the same area,

did C of E Primary & Junior Schools, Secondary School where a regular comprehensive & in hindsight a fooking zoo........

Originally Posted by churchill

Throwing money at education does nothing, as recent histroy has proven.

Does fine for PRIVATE schools.

What this DOES prove is that it is basically the teachers fault.

Otherwise NO school would be any better than a Government comprehensive. And "faith schools"/Private schools suffer under the same laws that doi not allow a teacher to take the little bastards behind the bike sheds and break their bloody noses for them. So it is not that.

Originally Posted by von Clausewitz

Does fine for PRIVATE schools.

Wasn't including them because you pay twice, once for your local state schools, and then again in fees to the private school. The government has pissed money against the wall with education and it doesn't help. The Head of ISIS, some retired rear admiral or something recently said that most parents who scrimp and scrape to pay for their kids to go private find the comprehensive system offensive. I have to agree.