Operation Trojan Horse

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gjf764

1,305 posts

176 months

Monday 2nd June 2014
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Funk said:
Whilst the school is funded by public money, they can do what they're fking told.
I agree with you but I really don't think that's how it works!

Pickled Piper

6,344 posts

236 months

Monday 2nd June 2014
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gjf764 said:
Funk said:
Whilst the school is funded by public money, they can do what they're fking told.
I agree with you but I really don't think that's how it works!
This is not one of the schools being investigated as part of the "Trojan Horse ' allegations. It's a failing Muslim school with state funding and a £400K deficit.

The pupils are very happy with the school, the parents think it's wonderful. It's openly Muslim. Surely, the pragmatic way to deal with this is to just cut the state funding and let them get on with it?

Four Litre

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2,019 posts

193 months

Monday 2nd June 2014
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Funk said:
Whilst the school is funded by public money, they can do what they're fking told.
To fking right.. how many other Islamic schools are we paying for? Drives me nuts. Finally it seems that people are realising the extent of these problems. Check out some of the replies in the Telegraph

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10870590/Key-figure-in-Trojan-Horse-plot-is-an-Ofsted-inspector.html#disqus_thread>



Asterix

24,438 posts

229 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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Pickled Piper said:
gjf764 said:
Funk said:
Whilst the school is funded by public money, they can do what they're fking told.
I agree with you but I really don't think that's how it works!
This is not one of the schools being investigated as part of the "Trojan Horse ' allegations. It's a failing Muslim school with state funding and a £400K deficit.

The pupils are very happy with the school, the parents think it's wonderful. It's openly Muslim. Surely, the pragmatic way to deal with this is to just cut the state funding and let them get on with it?
Problem with that is you'll end up with the Saudis funding the schools and demanding an even harder line is taken.

They have a massive 'education' program worldwide and fund facilities and build new mosques etc.. across the globe... providing the end users abide by their rules.

c7xlg

862 posts

233 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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Why can't we just ban all religious schools? And all religious comment/teaching other than in history classes? ? For once the french have something right...

Pickled Piper

6,344 posts

236 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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Asterix said:
Pickled Piper said:
gjf764 said:
Funk said:
Whilst the school is funded by public money, they can do what they're fking told.
I agree with you but I really don't think that's how it works!
This is not one of the schools being investigated as part of the "Trojan Horse ' allegations. It's a failing Muslim school with state funding and a £400K deficit.

The pupils are very happy with the school, the parents think it's wonderful. It's openly Muslim. Surely, the pragmatic way to deal with this is to just cut the state funding and let them get on with it?
Problem with that is you'll end up with the Saudis funding the schools and demanding an even harder line is taken.

They have a massive 'education' program worldwide and fund facilities and build new mosques etc.. across the globe... providing the end users abide by their rules.
I'm not sure you will. I personally believe you will see an outbreak of "common sense" if you pull the funding. Up until now the school community has been allowed to "have it's cake and eat it".

Asterix

24,438 posts

229 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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I hope you're right but if anything has been proved time and time again, common sense isn't very common.

Marlin45

1,327 posts

165 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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c7xlg said:
Why can't we just ban all religious schools? And all religious comment/teaching other than in history classes? ? For once the french have something right...
...and the Spanish, Dutch, Germans, Americans.............

IMHO any school with a religious bias should follow the governments requirements for education...and get no state funding. State schools should be secular and they then get state funding.

If you want to worship sky fairies do it in your own time and at your expense.

QuantumTokoloshi

4,164 posts

218 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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It gets better, one of the implicated people is also an Ofsted inspector.


Key figure in 'Trojan Horse' plot is an Ofsted inspector

Pickled Piper

6,344 posts

236 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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QuantumTokoloshi said:
It gets better, one of the implicated people is also an Ofsted inspector.


Key figure in 'Trojan Horse' plot is an Ofsted inspector
There is more to come. Once someone has looked into where his Companies derive their revenue from. Also, I doubt very much that the payments made to "consultants" for services by the Governors at the suspect schools will stand up to any detail scrutiny.

If you have had any involvement with schooling in the West Midlands over the last ten years, none of this will come as a surprise. The surprise is how much of it has been ignored and denied over the years in the interests of "community relations" and "Political Correctness".

Wait for more cries of Islamaphobia! once the Accountants start going through the books.

Oakey

27,591 posts

217 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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Pickled Piper said:
There is more to come. Once someone has looked into where his Companies derive their revenue from. Also, I doubt very much that the payments made to "consultants" for services by the Governors at the suspect schools will stand up to any detail scrutiny.

If you have had any involvement with schooling in the West Midlands over the last ten years, none of this will come as a surprise. The surprise is how much of it has been ignored and denied over the years in the interests of "community relations" and "Political Correctness".

Wait for more cries of Islamaphobia! once the Accountants start going through the books.
I can't understand what the fk went wrong. Terrorists fly a bunch of planes into the Twin Towers, the 'war on terrorism' begins, and ten plus years later we're now afraid to tackle any issues that involve Islam or Muslims for fear of offending people. How did that happen?

Asterix

24,438 posts

229 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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Oakey said:
Pickled Piper said:
There is more to come. Once someone has looked into where his Companies derive their revenue from. Also, I doubt very much that the payments made to "consultants" for services by the Governors at the suspect schools will stand up to any detail scrutiny.

If you have had any involvement with schooling in the West Midlands over the last ten years, none of this will come as a surprise. The surprise is how much of it has been ignored and denied over the years in the interests of "community relations" and "Political Correctness".

Wait for more cries of Islamaphobia! once the Accountants start going through the books.
I can't understand what the fk went wrong. Terrorists fly a bunch of planes into the Twin Towers, the 'war on terrorism' begins, and ten plus years later we're now afraid to tackle any issues that involve Islam or Muslims for fear of offending people. How did that happen?
The Labour Party is where I would start .

Engineer1

10,486 posts

210 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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Marlin45 said:
...and the Spanish, Dutch, Germans, Americans.............

IMHO any school with a religious bias should follow the governments requirements for education...and get no state funding. State schools should be secular and they then get state funding.

If you want to worship sky fairies do it in your own time and at your expense.
America may have constitutional seperation but Texas chooses the science books and Creation seems to be more popular than evolution...

QuantumTokoloshi

4,164 posts

218 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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Pickled Piper said:
There is more to come. Once someone has looked into where his Companies derive their revenue from. Also, I doubt very much that the payments made to "consultants" for services by the Governors at the suspect schools will stand up to any detail scrutiny.

If you have had any involvement with schooling in the West Midlands over the last ten years, none of this will come as a surprise. The surprise is how much of it has been ignored and denied over the years in the interests of "community relations" and "Political Correctness".

Wait for more cries of Islamaphobia! once the Accountants start going through the books.
The issues with blatant "unaccounted for expenditure" and cronyism are not limited to the Midlands. My wife has seen very similar occurrences at a number of schools she has taught at, or been a governor, in Berkshire and Hampshire.


Edited by QuantumTokoloshi on Tuesday 3rd June 13:12

dandarez

13,289 posts

284 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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Asterix said:
I hope you're right but if anything has been proved time and time again, common sense isn't very common.
Common Sense

noun: common sense; noun: commonsense; modifier noun: common-sense
good sense and sound judgement in practical matters.

Now almost entirely non-existent. wink






Mermaid

21,492 posts

172 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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Asterix said:
Oakey said:
Pickled Piper said:
There is more to come. Once someone has looked into where his Companies derive their revenue from. Also, I doubt very much that the payments made to "consultants" for services by the Governors at the suspect schools will stand up to any detail scrutiny.

If you have had any involvement with schooling in the West Midlands over the last ten years, none of this will come as a surprise. The surprise is how much of it has been ignored and denied over the years in the interests of "community relations" and "Political Correctness".

Wait for more cries of Islamaphobia! once the Accountants start going through the books.
I can't understand what the fk went wrong. Terrorists fly a bunch of planes into the Twin Towers, the 'war on terrorism' begins, and ten plus years later we're now afraid to tackle any issues that involve Islam or Muslims for fear of offending people. How did that happen?
The Labour Party is where I would start .
Agreed, but Tories do not have enough of a backbone (weakened of course by the alliance) - a true leader needs to make a case and convince his voters, rather than concern himself with how the voting will affect key marginals.

SR7492

495 posts

151 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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I've had a good read of this and it is quite interesting but 'personally' I do think that it seems to be blown out of proportion.

I mean it started off with a letter which dates back to when?

I'm actually surprised with the amount of man power thrown at this; seems like Ofsted and DofE have gone in waging war on the schools which to me is a bit extreme. If only they had this approach for the whole of the UK education system then most kids would grow up with a decent education (the recent pupil/teacher stabbing in Leeds comes to mind as the school had a horrendous number of incidents including staff attacks/weaponry - why weren't Ofsted sorting that school out?)

Interesting to see what the report comes out with but I'm guessing it'll be something along the lines of 'no Muslim takeover plot BUT most of the schools investigated need major reforms as the education/practices are piss poor'

And then it calms down again for 6 months!

Mermaid

21,492 posts

172 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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SR7492 said:
I've had a good read of this and it is quite interesting but 'personally' I do think that it seems to be blown out of proportion.


Interesting to see what the report comes out with but I'm guessing it'll be something along the lines of 'no Muslim takeover plot


Do wonder if the Muslim perspective on this is different to the rest of the population?

supersingle

3,205 posts

220 months

Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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QuantumTokoloshi said:
It gets better, one of the implicated people is also an Ofsted inspector.


Key figure in 'Trojan Horse' plot is an Ofsted inspector
I'm going to make the not very bold prediction that we'll see islamists infiltrate more and more of our public institutions in the future. I do not think this will end well.