London, England, Jun 27, 2017 / 06:02 am
A Jewish girls' school has received a failing report from a British education standards monitor because it did not teach its pupils about sexual orientation and gender reassignment.
The report concerns Vishnitz Girls School, an Orthodox Jewish school in the London borough of Hackney for students up to age eight. Inspectors charged that the school did not give its students a "full understanding of fundamental British values."
The British education standards office, informally known as Ofsted, faulted the school's lack of instruction about all legally protected characteristics, including sexual orientation and gender-reassignment, the U.K. newspaper The Telegraph reports.
Ofsted charged that this means students have "a limited understanding of the different lifestyles and partnerships that individuals may choose in present-day society." It said school policy "restricts pupils' spiritual, moral and cultural development and does not promote equality of opportunity in ways that take account of differing lifestyles."