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From:	Millie (75-107-205-203.cust.wildblue.net)
Subject:	That's not the complete story...
Date:	March 26, 2008 at 8:52 am PST

In Reply to: Brit Teachers' union posted by Saysfaa on March 26, 2008 at 7:22 am:

What you've posted makes it sound as thought the Koran was the only thing a {big bad} teachers' union wanted to introduce. That's not the case. Is that the impression you meant to give? Usually if something sounds this odd, there is more to the story, imo.

Call to offer faith class choice
By Hannah Goff
BBC News at the NUT conference, Manchester

School children
'Pupils from different backgrounds should be educated together'
Head teachers should allow imams, rabbis and priests to offer religious instruction to pupils in all state schools, teachers' leaders have said.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) said the move would be a way to reunite divided communities.

The NUT said parents had a right to have specific schooling in their own faith, if that was what they wanted.

But the Church of England disagreed, saying: "Religious instruction belongs with the religious institutions."
Whole Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7311178.stm

BBC: ‘Schools could offer Koran classes’
It is not very often one can accuse the BBC of being anti-Islamic or unnecessarily alarmist when it comes to matters religious, but this headline quotation is an undoubted example. It is almost purposely designed to irritate ‘White Britain’ or the ‘Middle England’ of nominal Christendom.

The National Union of Teachers said that schools ‘should allow imams, rabbis and priests to offer religious instruction to pupils in all state schools’ in order to ‘reunite divided communities’. While one may be incredulous at the union’s naïveté that the descending of sundry religious leaders upon some of the nation’s schools is the solution to ‘divided communities’, it is important to note that this union specified Islam, Judaism and Christianity. When the BBC first reported this story, they singled out ‘Koran classes’ in order to ruffle a few feathers. Later on in the day, the headline was changed to ‘Call to offer faith class choice’, though it is still possible to search for it under the original provocative headline.

But this story becomes a little more interesting when one reads that the NUT said parents ‘had a right to have specific schooling in their own faith, if that was what they wanted’.
Whole Story: http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2008/03/bbc-schools-could-offer-koran-classes.html

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