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The British government declared a top-performing Jewish school to be “inadequate” because it teaches girls and boys separately.
King David High School in the Manchester area was downgraded this year by Ofsted, the British government’s regulatory authority for education, the Manchester Evening News reported last week.
It had been rated by Ofsted as “outstanding” in keeping with its being one of the top-rated and best-performing high schools in the country but was found to be practicing “unlawful segregation” of pupils “on the grounds of faith and belief and sex.”
What will it take for these dunderheads to realize that you
don’t mess with success? These are private schools. Parents pay big
money to send their children to schools like this. They do so voluntarily – even eagerly - I assume
because of the very reputation as a top school cited in this article.
And they
are threatened to be eventually shut down because of a stupid egalitarian rule that not a
single person cares about except for the most die hard feminist? What is the
matter with these people?!
I could understand their concern if the students of one sex
were being deprived of the same standard of education as the other sex. Or if
the concern of Ofsted was that the school was not offering the core curriculum
required of all their schools. Because that would be a deprivation of
education. But to consider inadequate the separation of boys and girls
into separate schools even though their academics don’t suffer is
to spit in the face of their obvious success. How can they even say that with a
straight face?
But they did. And their faces were apparently straight. The
claim is that… Pupils affected by this segregation suffer detriment. No
explanation. Just a statement.
OK. it might be true that there is some ‘detriment’ in the
sense that developing certain social skills might suffer. But that is more than
made up for by the excellent education they receive. I would go a step further
and say that separating the sexes in high school is not only NOT harmful… it is
beneficial to the students in that it prevents the obvious social distractions
that are inevitable under a coed high school environment.
I’m not saying it is impossible to learn under coed conditions.
Plenty of students can and do. But I believe that overall the lack of those distractions
are far more beneficial to one’s education than are the social skill learned
under a coed setting.
But don’t tell Ofsted that. They do not want to be
confused with the obvious. They are too married to the political correctness of
the Left to care about such minor things as religious priorities or a school environment
more conducive to study.
What about those social skills? Aren’t they important too?
Sure they are. But it isn’t as though those kids never see each other outside
the classroom. These are Modern Orthodox kids and they probably do a lot of socializing
outside of school.
Like the rest of Europe the UK no longer values religious belief despite their supposed support for the ideals of religious tolerance.
They might pay lip service to it. But
actions speak a lot louder than words. Their views about morality are no longer
based on scripture but on political correctness. In this case to the point of rejecting common sense in
favor of an egalitarian ‘ideal’.
I have long ago concluded that the entire European continent is sinking into a cesspool of amoral ideas. Ideas increasingly based on the socialism of the
benighted Left that places religious values (and even common sense in this case) in the same category as dinosaurs.
Thankfully this is not happening in the US. I do not see
anyone challenging the rights of any educational institution to separate the
sexes. Many private schools here - both secular and religious (of the 3 major faiths) have sex segregated schools that are very successful academically. For both sexes.
The issues here are the actual education of the students. Not some contrived
version of political correctness. At least as long as socialist candidates for
high political office are not elected. God help us if they ever are.
Meanwhile my advice to the Jews of Europe
is to get out of that God forsaken continent (all of it including the UK) and emigrate to the US or Israel .
Where for the moment, religious rights and common sense still mean something.
