‘Should schools allow teachers to wear full-face veils?’

Wednesday, 01 July 2009 16:35

The BBC One Show poses the question ‘Should schools allow teachers to wear full-face veils?’

It follows on from comments made by David Cameron and reported in the Daily Express yesterday.

The paper misleadingly titled the story 'Cameron backs ban on burkhas', a throwback to its front page last week, 'Ban the burkha in Britain'. Although the first paragraph explains that the Leader of the Opposition was actually backing 'schools that ban Muslim garments such as the burkha and the niqab from the classroom' and that he 'stopped short of calling for an outright ban on full-face veils in public'.

The story continues with Cameron's comment that, “It’s a free country and people have to be free to wear what they choose.

“I think the difficult area is that those rights come up against other problems.”

“I don’t think you can wear full garb and be an effective teacher. I think it’s extremely difficult. If schools want to set rules about those things, the Government should be backing those schools that set rules”.

It also follows news that two Muslim students and a teacher were asked to remove their face veils before entering a Catholic school in Blackburn on the school’s open day.

You can join in the debate on whether schools should allow teachers to wear full face veils by leaving a comment on the One Show page.

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