A British community under threat from the State – Part 4
by Karen Harradine, TCW:
Britain’s ultra Orthodox Haredi community is facing an existential crisis and threat. TCW writer Karen Harradine believes it to be serious and urgent, and one that cannot be overstated. In this series she explains the damaging impact that proposed government schools legislation would have on their independent faith-based yeshiva schools, destroying the ancient tradition of Torah education in this country. Part 1 is here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here.
FOR ALL its stated concerns about safeguarding children, the government does a very bad job of it. Dumbed-down lessons, woke ideologies, bullying and excluded pupils characterise many schools in the State sector. Some 16,000 children, most of secondary school age, are educated in Pupil Referral Units.
Dramatically increasing numbers of children between the ages of 11 and 16 (nearly a fifth of that age group) are suffering from mental health disorders, according to 2022 post-lockdown statistics.
At the same time secondary school children are being taught to hate their own race and heritage, with ‘critical race theory’ reported to be as endemic in UK schools as it is in schools in the US.
Knife crime, which has escalated disturbingly in recent years, is reflected in the number of sharp instruments found on school property.
British secondary education performance rates as average amongst OECD countries for reading and arithmetic, but literacy remains an issue. Locking children out of schools in 2020 and 2021 has caused significant ‘learning losses’ and thousands of immigrant children in state schools are unable to speak English.
An intensification of anti-Semitic abuse, both from students and, unforgivably, teachers in mainstream schools, means that state education is not an attractive proposition for the Haredi.
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