At 15:54 23/08/2004 +0100, Tim Trent wrote:
>Interestingly it appears that Jehovah's Witnesses reserve the right to be
>totally exempt from classes teaching about other religions. A more
>knowledgeable person may correct me here. This information is form my wife
>who is a teacher.
Current education legislation allows any parent to exercise a right to
withdraw their child from all forms of religious instruction (or worship -
ie: assemblies). No reason (such as a.n.other religious affiliation) needs
to be given. Parents also, if they wish, have the right to withdraw their
offspring from sex education lessons.
I imagine the question about ethnic origin is for the bean-counters at the
DfES, along with the requirement to declare proportions of school pupils
entitled to free school meals. It used to be called Form 7 data, but that
was about 5 or 6 years ago, so is probably called something else entirely
these days :-)
Regards,
Jan
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