Boarding Schools for Girls

Fears that the only state-sponsored girls school in the British City of Leeds is about to be closed prompted parents and other concerned community members to express their dissatisfaction during a recent public meeting.

A Jan. 20 article in the Yorkshire Evening Post described the controversy surrounding the future of Parklands Girls High School:

Parents, staff, pupils and the community were given the chance to have their say at the first public meeting held on the issue of girls-only schooling. A further eight meetings are being held.

Speaking before the meeting, parent governor Lisa Evans whose daughter goes to Parklands, said: "Education Leeds has made its mind up."

Year 12 pupil Arfana Kauser, 16, of Harehills, said: "The school teaches us to be strong independent women who are going to be successful in the future. I think it's important it's not nixed."

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Community opposition has derailed plans to build a Muslim school for girls with a capacity of 5,000 students in Briefield Mills, England. But according to a Nov. 30 article in the Lancashire Telegraph, the group that led the fight against the school isn't ready to rest just yet:

It was announced earlier this week that Islamic Help, a national charity, had scrapped plans to convert the seven-acre site into a 5,000-pupil boarding school for Muslim girls.

But it was revealed that the 50-pupil Ghausia High School for girls, based in Nelson, will still look to move to the site and the trust will look to create a sports centre for the whole community, alongside a commercial village housing start-up businesses. &

Clitheroe Road Residents Association, which now has a 1,000-person petition against the plans, vowed to continue their fight.

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A proposed Muslim girls boarding school is facing opposition from a residents organization in the British town where it hopes to open. According to a Nov. 12 article on the website of the British newspaper The Burnley Express, the Brierfield's Clitheroe Road Residents' Association is disseminating a pamphlet with the following text:

A group called Islamic Help has now placed a deposit on Brierfield Mills and is proposing a 5,000-student boarding school of single sex and single faith.

The residents' association is made up of members of different cultures, religions, age groups and sex, and are opposed to the proposals, which we feel will divide the communities and cultures of Brierfield and Pendle.

A plan for Brierfield Mills, from a company based in Birmingham, will cause deep-rooted divisions in our town and Pendle as a whole, which would end all the good work that we have all contributed to over the years.

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Working under the guidance of one of their peers, 30 students from a Quaker day and boarding school in Great Britain decorated and displayed a rainbow of umbrellas during a peace vigil during the nations Quaker Schools Week.

An Oct. 14 article in The York Press provided the following details about the project:

Anna Webster, 17, a pupil at The Mount School, in Dalton Terrace, said she was inspired to run a silent vigil in which about 30 participants carried umbrellas featuring all the colours of the spectrum, after learning about Matt Lamb Umbrellas For Peace Project  which promotes inclusivity.

She said: I thought that it would be a really positive thing for people to do; individuals could think about what peace means to them, and all stand and support each other in our views with a silent vigil. It could be a striking statement about our commitment to peace and also a lot of fun."

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