School accused of segregation
Print Edition
A MUSLIM elementary school in Sweden, which separated boys and girls on a bus and during sports lessons, sparked controversy yesterday with the prime minister condemning it as “despicable.”
As part of a documentary, Swedish broadcaster TV4 filmed secret footage of the privately-run Al-Azhar Primary School in a Stockholm suburb where boys are seen entering a bus from the front and girls from the back.
Aged between 6 and 10, the students take the school bus in the mornings and evenings to go to and from school in the working-class neighbourhood of Vallingby, northwest of Stockholm.
“I think this is despicable. This doesn’t belong in Sweden,” Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said. “We take the bus together here, regardless if you’re a girl or a boy, woman or a man.”
This isn’t the first controversy surrounding the school. In August last year, Swedish media revealed that teachers had agreed to gender-segregated sport lessons.
The school argued that gender-mixed sports courses would cause some parents to stop their children from attending.
The school’s vice principal said it had no intention of carrying out gender-segregated activities. “I don’t know why it still turned out that way,” Roger Lindquist said. “It was a mistake.” But the school says on its website that “boys and girls have separate courses in swimming and sports.”
Lofven has asked Education Minister Gustav Fridolin to contact the school.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
