In addition, Park View had been designated a National Healthy School for its approach to Personal, Social and Health Education. Children were urged to join in anti-Christian chants. [4], These claims by witnesses were unsubstantiated. However, what was at issue also included other documents outside the Clarke Report that had potentially been relevant to the case. [29] It encouraged parents to complain about the school's leadership with false accusations of sex education, forced Christian prayer and mixed physical education, with the aim of obtaining a new leadership of Islamists. The findings were quashed on grounds of serious procedural irregularities. The teacher also used school facilities to copy Osama bin Laden DVDs. The BBC reported on gender segregation at a state secondary school, Carlton Bolling College, during trips and after-school workshops, as well as boys-only school trips. [5], Ofsted expressed concerns about an exclusively Muslim culture in non-faith schools and children not being taught to "develop tolerant attitudes towards other faiths". [1][11] The allegations against the teachers were set out in the press and in the Kershaw and Clarke Reports. [81], During the tribunal it emerged that a photo of a white person was shown to students as an example of what Christians look like. WebIts just a Trojan horse for gentrification: austerity and stadium-led regeneration book By Mark Panton, Geoff Walters. Michael and Ruth Haephrati were well-educated people with They investigated schools in East London, Bradford and Luton over concerns regarding a limited curriculum and pupils' detachment from the wider community. The annual sports event for boys and girls was scheduled in different days. The Panel had been ready to announce its decision in the case on 23 December 2016, but an urgent application for disclosure, relating, in part, to transcripts associated with the Clarke Report, was made by defence lawyers on 24 November 2016. The books contained fundamentalist views and promoted executions, stoning and lashing as appropriate punishments. The inspection said that "too little is done to keep students safe from the risks associated with extremist views". The school had a determination from the local SACRE to provide Islamic collective worship since 1996. The Department for Education inspection found the seating arrangements "often with boys sitting towards the front of the class and girls at the back or around the sides". [64] The Ofsted report stated that "students' understanding of other religions is scant as the religious education curriculum focuses primarily on the study of Islam"[65] and said there was a "perceived unfairness and lack of transparency" over appointments to the school and that female members of staff had felt intimidated. [2], The report found evidence of intolerance at several schools toward gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual people, and said that governors and staff exhibited openly homophobic behaviour. The report identified the Muslim Council of Britain and the Association of Muslim Schools as organisations "[stemming] from an international movement to increase the role of Islam in education". [105], The Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse, Jim Fitzpatrick, warned of a 'Trojan Horse'-style Islamist plot to infiltrate councils in London. [29] Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, said that "wider, more comprehensive action" was needed and appointed Peter Clarke, a former senior Metropolitan Police officer and ex-head of the Counter Terrorism Command. [76][77] Exchange visits with nearby churches had been curtailed. [41] Concerns have also been raised by the National Association of Head Teachers about schools in parts of East London and other "large cities around the country". [126], He claimed that white children were lazy. [19] Like Peter Clarke, Kershaw seemed unaware that all schools had a duty to promote community cohesion. Government officials and policy advisers, as well as journalists previously involved in the case, rushed to announce that the cases had collapsed on a 'technicality'. It also provides useful information and guidance and features of good practice in meeting those needs. In August 2014, the Principal Hardeep Saini was replaced by an interim principal. He asked for publication to be delayed pending "clarification". Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies, 13, [135][136] No mention was made of the fact that allegations of extremism had not been any part of the charges against teachers. [81], Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg also backed the investigation, stating that schools should not become "silos of segregation". [61], Subjects such as Personal, Social and Health Education, Biology and Sex and Relationships Education were bowdlerised to conform with a conservative Islamic teaching. "[92], The report concluded that based on the examination of emails and correspondence: "There is incontrovertible evidence that both senior officials and elected members of Birmingham council were aware of activities that bear a striking resemblance to those described in the Trojan horse letter many months before it surfaced. [79] For three years running non-Muslim pupils and staff were excluded from these trips. Book Sport Policy and Politics in an Era of Austerity. [93], The investigation, however, did not find evidence of a "conspiracy" to promote "violent extremism or radicalisation" values.[19]. This page was last edited on 24 December 2022, at 23:24. Yet, "eight weeks after the letter was received there was no systematic attempt to deal with the issue". [96] He said that "protecting our children" was "one of the first duties of government" and convened an emergency meeting of the Extremism Taskforce and a ministerial meeting to discuss the affair. Neoptolemus son of Achilles, who according to a prophecy had to fight at Troy in order for the Achaeans to be victorious. Segregationism dividing the world into 'us' and 'them', with them to include all non-Muslims and other Muslims who disagree; Attempts to impose its views and practices upon others; Intolerance of difference, whether the secular, other religions or other Muslims. Indeed, in presenting his charges, Clarke commented that "it is only fair to point out that the Trust disputed most, if not all, of the allegations". [122] The Guardian also analysed Michael Gove's book on combatting Islamist terror, Celsius 7/7, pointing out that a chapter is titled "The Trojan Horse". Students were also told that it is un-Islamic to have a pet dog. "This is a reminder that this is a serious issue and something that is not going to be solved overnight. [91] Another participant in the discussion said that "JEWS" (emphasis in original) were making websites with false information on the Quran, while Abdul Malik, Deputy Head of Golden Hillock in Bradford wrote "Al-Islam will prevail over all other ways of life. This was after the government had cited the Trojan Horse affair as justification for its new plans to counter extremism.[130]. Nor did he report any evidence provided by school improvement officers at Birmingham City Council or the department for Education. [99], Governors resigned from Saltley School in protest after the Ofsted findings were released, stating that they doubted the inspectors' impartiality. [99], Harriet Harman, the shadow Culture Secretary, urged the Culture Secretary, Sajid Javid, to protect music from being dropped from school curriculums after learning this had taken place at one of the investigated schools. [78] The EFA team concluded: "We saw evidence that Oldknow academy is acting as a faith school and is not making active efforts to make the academy attractive to all faith denominations including pupils of no faith. Opera News describes veteran baritone Mark Walters as a force to be reckoned with as Don Carlo in La forza del destino. [27] As Holmwood and O'Toole show, neither the Kershaw Report nor the Clarke Report gave any attention to the schools improvement policies of Birmingham City Council or the Department for Education. Book review by Rick Howard Like Zero Day, another Mark Russinovich novel I recently reviewed for the Cybersecurity Canon, Trojan Horse is a book Id recommend for casual readers.Cybersecurity professionals wont learn anything new here, but all readers might enjoy wallowing around in a Tom Clancy-esque story Her credibility was called into question by the NCTL Panel when discontinuing the case. "[128] Bhupinder Kondal left the school again shortly after. Jaimie Martin, former special adviser at the Department for Education, wrote that "it is important to note as [the teachers] were not tried for the charges, they were therefore not cleared of them", and that "people who downplay the seriousness of Trojan Horse, claiming those involved exhibited 'mainstream' Islamic views, are guilty not only of stunning naivety, but of a dangerous error". At the heart of the affair He said some of the witnesses had been very nervous and anxious. [9] The introduction of the document states that the "purpose is to promote greater understanding of the faith, religious and cultural needs of Muslim pupils and how they can be accommodated within schools. [137], The academic scholar John Holmwood, who served as an expert witness in the professional misconduct case brought against the senior teachers at Park View Educational Trust, wrote a book with scholar Therese O'Toole about the Trojan Horse affair, Countering Extremism in British Schools? As a result the content may not reflect current Government policy and may make reference to the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) which has now been replaced by the Department for Education (DFE). ^ Cook, Chris (18 July 2014). " 'Trojan Horse' report an unhelpful epitaph for Michael Gove". [55] In the event, just 12 teachers were subject to NCTL hearings, in which they were accused of "undue religious influence", not Islamist extremism. [33], The letter also encouraged getting academy status for successfully infiltrated schools, so as to have a curriculum independent of the local education authority. Look at how [the] Muslim population is increasing in the UK. The educational advisers to the Clarke Report did not set out the guidelines applying to religious education and collective worship in schools and no information was provided about the locally agreed SACRE curriculum which continued to be taught in the schools. The 16-year-old girl's phone was confiscated by the teacher during a Sunday event and then taken to a shop for its passcode to be broken, and its contents were then examined by the school. [25] This would be so despite the fact that the previous duty on schools to promote community cohesion had included an emphasis on 'shared values' which were exactly the same values espoused in the new duty. The latter piece concluded that in the present system, the schools investigated could have registered themselves as faith schools and been allowed to teach Islamic values with permission from the state. [5] The inspections found that head teachers have been "marginalised or forced out of their jobs". This led the Panel to conclude that the matter had not been a misunderstanding, but that the transcripts were "deliberately withheld from disclosure". It tries to deceive the user to load and execute the files on the device. However, she admitted that senior staff had warned her not to let pupils dance to pop or Bollywood music. The Truth about the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair (2017). At paragraph 37 of his judgement, he writes that. [citation needed] Later, he was critical of the Conservatives' plan to teach "British values", claiming that it would alienate moderate Muslims. Three cases against junior teachers were heard separately from that against the senior leadership team at PVET. A three-year-old in a nursery said that his family were poor because the Jews and Zionists had all the money. 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For example, the co-head of the security and extremism unit at Policy Exchange (the conservative think tank that had advised Michael Gove's schools programme), Hannah Stuart, and its head of education, John David Blake, proposed that, "non-disclosure of anonymous witness statements from the Clarke inquiry was described as an 'abuse of process', and that is deeply unfortunate, but this falls short of an exoneration. [1], Year 11 pupils about to sit their GCSEs at the school were instructed to partake in an Islamic fast, taking neither food nor drink, to place them in the right "spiritual frame of mind" for the exams. A sixth school was labelled inadequate for its poor educational standards and twelve schools were found needing of improvements. He worked for a charity believed by the US to have links with terrorist organisations. Creationism was taught as fact in school assemblies and science lessons at both Park View and Golden Hillock. Arrangements for the hearings were deeply unsatisfactory, with four separate cases brought against different groups of teachers associated with PVET and one other school, Oldknow Academy (which it transpired had a Memorandum of Understanding with PVET, signed at the behest of the Department for Education). [citation needed], Bhupinder Kondal, principal at Oldknow Academy, stated in July 2014 after the publishing of the reports that she recognised the steps illustrated in the letter and that governors had been trying to undermine her since 2009, although the Local Education Authority would not support her. He said that "the Trojan Horse in east London was a political one rather than an educational one" and spoke of racial politics taking hold. [44], Michael White, a former teacher at Park View School which was mentioned in the letter, told the BBC that the school's governing board had been "taken over by a Muslim sect" in 1993. However, because some of the schools were academies under the responsibility of the Department for Education, the then Secretary of State, Michael Gove, commissioned a separate report by Peter Clarke, the former head of the Metropolitan police's counterterrorism command. Another school investigated, Alston Primary, was already in special measures. The show also found evidence of unregistered Haredi Jewish schools in London, which an ex-pupil claimed were not teaching a balanced curriculum. [2] They described the Trojan Horse affair as a "false narrative" spread by a hostile British press which led to "a serious miscarriage of justice" against the teachers, drawing comparisons to the Hillsborough affair. [58], The EFA inspection found a classroom culture which was not welcoming to non-Muslim pupils. 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