From The Daily Mail-Hymns have been dropped from assemblies at a Church of England school which has also introduced separate prayer rooms for girls and boys to cater to its mostly Muslim students.
Daily assemblies at Slough and Eton Church of England Business and Enterprise College, where 75 per cent of pupils are Muslim, are not based specifically on the Bible, but may make reference to it alongside other religious texts.
All of the the meat served at the secondary school, which has over 1,000 pupils aged between 11 and 19, is halal.
Headmaster Paul McAteer said the approach was to be 'sensitive to the fact that we do have many different faiths in the school', but added that Christian values were 'more prevalent here than I have experienced in non-Church of England schools'.
Mr McAteer, who pointed out that the Church of England describes itself as 'a faith for all faiths', told the Sunday Times: 'The values we support are very much Christian values of honesty, integrity, justice.'
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"introduced separate prayer rooms for girls and boys to cater to its mostly Muslim students"
I have to say, this bothers me---though I'm not precisely sure why.
While both Christianity and Islam have traditions of gender-separation (and gender-distinction), I get the impression that, c. 2013, Muslim gender-separation is based far more upon the idea of explicit male weakness/implicit female "temptress"-allegations...and that BOTH presuppositions are the product of patriarchy (whereas Christian female separation---again, in 2013---comes about at least as much from forms of Christian feminism).
OCICBW.
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