Michaela School: Muslim student loses prayer ban challenge

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68731366

Michaela School was entitled to enforce a ban on prayer rituals, the High Court has ruled.

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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y

I'm honestly not sure how to feel about this for a couple of reasons-

While I do think schools should be given broad freedoms to refuse to do things to cater to specific students- I would like an assurance from this school, which claims to be a non-religious school, that every other religious accommodation would be similarly refused, such as allowing a Jewish child to wear a yarmulke in defiance of school uniform rules or letting a Greek Orthodox child off for the Christmas and Easter they celebrate at a different time from Western Christians. If you are going to have a 'we do not accommodate for your religious beliefs' rule in a school that says it is not religious, it should be universally applied.