Drummond
04-21-2014, 01:18 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2608776/Schools-centre-Muslim-Trojan-Horse-plot-special-measures-amid-fears-numbers-affected-reached-25.html
It's a story that, here in the UK, will just not go away. Our media is downplaying it .. and has been, from the beginning .. but at least it's not being overlooked, either.
Six secular schools at the centre of a plot to introduce hardline Islamic teaching into classrooms are to be placed in special measures.
It has been reported that Ofsted inspectors will rate the schools 'inadequate' after snap inspections this week, which usually leads to a school being placed in special measures, allowing officials to remove senior managers or close the school.
Inspectors were ordered in to the Birmingham schools after a 'Trojan Horse' letter was uncovered last month detailing a plot by hardline Muslims to force moderate and secular headteachers from their posts and install extreme Islamic teachers in their place.
Today a report published in The Telegraph alleges that Park View, Golden Hillock, Nansen, Oldknow and Saltley schools will be rated inadequate, the lowest possible score, while Alston school is already in special measures.
If the new Ofsted investigation does place the schools in special measures, Tahir Alam, who is also governor of Highfield school, is almost certain to be removed from his post.
Mr Alam, an activist for the hardline Muslim Council of Britain, is alleged to be at the centre of the trojan Horse plot, but has denied the allegations, calling them a 'fabrication'.
According to the Ofsted report, a further nine schools Springfield, Adderley, Regents Park, Highfield, Gracelands, Ladypool, Marlborough, Montgomery and Waverley will be given the second lowest rank of 'requiring improvement'.
A letter from Adderley school to parents yesterday confirmed the school had been subjected to a 'malicious and targeted' attempt to oust senior staff.
In its statement to parents, Adderley Primary's governing body confirmed that several headteachers in the city had faced pressure to resign from their posts.
The school, which is also embroiled in a fraud inquiry into allegedly fake resignation letters, said: 'Many of you will now be aware that a number of headteachers across Birmingham have come forward and confirmed that they have experienced malicious and targeted campaigns to remove them and that this issue is not unique to the leadership of Adderley Primary School.
'The seriousness of this issue has now been taken up by the Department for Education who have appointed a new education adviser responsible for investigating this matter thoroughly.
'Birmingham City Council have also appointed a former head teacher, Ian Kershaw, as Birmingham's chief adviser to assist in a wider investigation.'
The update for parents concluded: 'Attempts have been made at Adderley to destabilise the school by a very small but well organised group of individuals.
'The governors, headteacher, senior leadership team and staff have been robust in ensuring that Adderley remains a multi-cultural school providing a safe and positive learning environment for all of our 630 children.'
Four former staff members at the primary school were arrested on Thursday and have been bailed pending further inquiries into allegedly forged resignation letters.
Of the 17 schools investigated by Ofsted in connection with the plot, so far only one has been given a clean bill of health though another report is still to be completed.
Meanwhile a Department for Education (DfE) probe, lead by Peter Clarke, the former head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorism unit, is thought to be looking into 25 schools in the area.
It's a story that, here in the UK, will just not go away. Our media is downplaying it .. and has been, from the beginning .. but at least it's not being overlooked, either.
Six secular schools at the centre of a plot to introduce hardline Islamic teaching into classrooms are to be placed in special measures.
It has been reported that Ofsted inspectors will rate the schools 'inadequate' after snap inspections this week, which usually leads to a school being placed in special measures, allowing officials to remove senior managers or close the school.
Inspectors were ordered in to the Birmingham schools after a 'Trojan Horse' letter was uncovered last month detailing a plot by hardline Muslims to force moderate and secular headteachers from their posts and install extreme Islamic teachers in their place.
Today a report published in The Telegraph alleges that Park View, Golden Hillock, Nansen, Oldknow and Saltley schools will be rated inadequate, the lowest possible score, while Alston school is already in special measures.
If the new Ofsted investigation does place the schools in special measures, Tahir Alam, who is also governor of Highfield school, is almost certain to be removed from his post.
Mr Alam, an activist for the hardline Muslim Council of Britain, is alleged to be at the centre of the trojan Horse plot, but has denied the allegations, calling them a 'fabrication'.
According to the Ofsted report, a further nine schools Springfield, Adderley, Regents Park, Highfield, Gracelands, Ladypool, Marlborough, Montgomery and Waverley will be given the second lowest rank of 'requiring improvement'.
A letter from Adderley school to parents yesterday confirmed the school had been subjected to a 'malicious and targeted' attempt to oust senior staff.
In its statement to parents, Adderley Primary's governing body confirmed that several headteachers in the city had faced pressure to resign from their posts.
The school, which is also embroiled in a fraud inquiry into allegedly fake resignation letters, said: 'Many of you will now be aware that a number of headteachers across Birmingham have come forward and confirmed that they have experienced malicious and targeted campaigns to remove them and that this issue is not unique to the leadership of Adderley Primary School.
'The seriousness of this issue has now been taken up by the Department for Education who have appointed a new education adviser responsible for investigating this matter thoroughly.
'Birmingham City Council have also appointed a former head teacher, Ian Kershaw, as Birmingham's chief adviser to assist in a wider investigation.'
The update for parents concluded: 'Attempts have been made at Adderley to destabilise the school by a very small but well organised group of individuals.
'The governors, headteacher, senior leadership team and staff have been robust in ensuring that Adderley remains a multi-cultural school providing a safe and positive learning environment for all of our 630 children.'
Four former staff members at the primary school were arrested on Thursday and have been bailed pending further inquiries into allegedly forged resignation letters.
Of the 17 schools investigated by Ofsted in connection with the plot, so far only one has been given a clean bill of health though another report is still to be completed.
Meanwhile a Department for Education (DfE) probe, lead by Peter Clarke, the former head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorism unit, is thought to be looking into 25 schools in the area.