Are schools the cause of intolerance in the UK?
I've just been looking at come of the polices of various schools. The level of sexism some of them practice is astounding. They are either completely ignorant of equalities legislation or they hold the law and basic human rights in contempt.
When my own children were at school I was forced to take legal action to get them to drop their sexist rules after the headmaster told me, in no uncertain terms, that he didn't care what the law said, he made the rules in his school.
If it were not for schools deliberately causing resentment between different groups by treating members of one more favourably than members of another, perhaps we wouldn't have as much crime and social disorder.
When my own children were at school I was forced to take legal action to get them to drop their sexist rules after the headmaster told me, in no uncertain terms, that he didn't care what the law said, he made the rules in his school.
If it were not for schools deliberately causing resentment between different groups by treating members of one more favourably than members of another, perhaps we wouldn't have as much crime and social disorder.
