Anyone teaching the Islam 101/public sharia to children is guilty of child endangerment.
The school board said that the headmistress had banned any of her teaching staff from cooperating with local authorities, even if a child was injured. She wanted everything to be handled internally, so as not to upset the children’s parents.
Islamic school closed for ‘endangering children’
Published: 23 Jan 2015 10:55 GMT+01:00
This comes after a young girl was knocked over by a classmate and seriously bruised her forehead. The headmistress did not call an ambulance and only reported the incident to the police the following day – when the girl still had significant swelling on her head.
When she was challenged about this she said that protecting her pupils’ parents is a priority for her – especially as many of them are originally from Chechnya and do not have health insurance.
She said that the girl’s mother had taken her daughter to the doctor herself.
The school board said that the headmistress had banned any of her teaching staff from cooperating with local authorities, even if a child was injured. She wanted everything to be handled internally, so as not to upset the children’s parents.
The school, which is run by an organization called Zukunft für alle, rejected allegations that the children were in any danger and said it would challenge the school board’s ruling.
