A West Yorkshire head teacher has banned books containing stories about pigs from the classroom in case they offend Muslim children.
BBC News
The literature has been removed from classes for under-sevens at Park Road Junior Infant and Nursery School in Batley.
Head Barbara Harris said the books would remain in the school library for children to read.
Sixty per cent of the school’s pupils are of Pakistani or Indian origin and 99% of these pupils are Muslims.
Mrs Harris said in a statement: “Recently I have been aware of an occasion where young Muslim children in class were read stories about pigs.”We try to be sensitive to the fact that for Muslims talk of pigs is offensive.”
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