Moral Safety

Criminal classes in Victorian schools

HUNDREDS of teachers with serious criminal histories will run Victorian classrooms this year after an education watchdog declared them fit to teach.

Stalkers, thieves and drug abusers are among those who remain in the classroom.

The Victorian Institute of Teaching has publicly identified only 15 teachers known to have been convicted of serious crimes in the past.

But the Herald Sun has learned up to 400 more have been quietly allowed to keep teaching.

Last year alone, registration was granted to 119 applicant teachers who had committed indictable offences including theft, drug offences, stalking -- even assault."Herald Sun

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"Most parents are concerned about their child's safety, then there's a broader issue of moral safety."

Meanwhile in the UK.

UK Muslim schools to police themselves

From: JW, link below

This will help foster integration, say British officials. No, this is not a parody.

"Muslim schools to conduct own inspections," by Graeme Paton for the Telegraph

Private Muslim schools have been given the power to police themselves, despite widespread fears over religious segregation, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

In a controversial move, they have won the right to appoint their own Ofsted-style inspectors. A new independent watchdog has been set up to be more "sensitive'' toward Islamic education.

The decision comes despite concerns some private Muslim schools are already failing to prepare pupils for life in modern Britain.

Barry Sheerman, the chairman of the Commons schools select committee, told MPs last month local councils were finding it "difficult to know what is going on in some faith schools - particularly Muslim schools".

But religious leaders defended the move, saying the curriculum and religious traditions in faith schools demand specialist knowledge.

Under present legislation, most state and private schools are inspected by Ofsted, the Government's standards watchdog.

The Association of Muslim Schools and the Christian Schools' Trust applied to the Government to set up a separate inspectorate for a small number of private faith schools....

From:

http://jihadwatch.terrorismawareness.org/

h/t : Joyce C