{"id":26358,"date":"2018-02-01T02:21:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T01:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/01\/senior-ofsted-official-backs-headteacher-over-hijab-ban-for-under-eights\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T02:21:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T01:21:52","slug":"senior-ofsted-official-backs-headteacher-over-hijab-ban-for-under-eights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=26358","title":{"rendered":"Senior Ofsted official backs headteacher over hijab ban for under eights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Spielman says religion is being used to \u2018actively pervert\u2019 education and school leaders should not fear causing offence when setting policiesOfsted\u2019s chief inspector has warned of the danger posed by people who use religion to \u201cactively pervert\u201d education as she made an unusual intervention in a dispute between parents and the headteacher of a primary school over banning the youngest Muslim girls from wearing the hijab.In a speech to a Church of England schools conference on Thursday, Amanda Spielman is to publicly support the head, Neena Lall, who imposed the ban last month in the face of opposition from parents and community leaders at the predominantly Muslim state school in east London. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2018\/feb\/01\/ofsted-chief-backs-headteacher-over-hijab-ban-for-under-eights\" target=\"_blank\">Senior Ofsted official backs headteacher over hijab ban for under eights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Spielman says religion is being used to \u2018actively pervert\u2019 education and school leaders should not fear causing offence when setting policiesOfsted\u2019s chief inspector has warned of the danger posed by people who use religion to \u201cactively pervert\u201d education as she made an unusual intervention in a dispute between parents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}