Independent – Parents should not be allowed to selectively remove their children from religious education lessons, headteachers say, as study reveals many such requests target the teaching of Islam.
More than two in five school leaders and religious education teachers received requests for students to be withdrawn from teaching about one religion, research from Liverpool Hope University revealed. Islam is the dominant focus of these parental withdrawal requests, according to the study of 450 school leaders and religious education heads.
One participant who received requests for children to be withdrawn from mosque visits said, “The students that have been removed are the ones that need to understand different cultures the most.”
