Well I certainly agree with that.
Again, religious studies (of whatever brand) is something that, in my opinion, should be taught outside of school. Parents should be at liberty to teach their children whatever flavour of religion they prefer or, of course, no religion at all if they are enlightened atheists (oh, oh - Joe alert!), so long as they do it in their own time. You are quite correct that some muslim schools seem to concentrate on religious studies and reading the koran almost to the exclusion of anything else.
Schools, especially primary schools, should concentrate only on the basic essentials of English and maths. Other things can come later when those basic skills have been mastered. In fact, one could argue that trying to teach and learn subjects other than these basics would be severely limited if pupils do not already possess a certain level of understanding of English and maths.
I struggled in the bottom stream in the school that was underfunded ( because they knew Comps. were coming )And lost most of my M8`s who went to the sec. mod. All it did for me was make me a Socialist ( until Blair took over )I could have been in the top form in a sec. mod. and not had the **** ripped by ar**hole teachers who looked down on us . Education and politics is still in a deadly embrace .
