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This is a normal post Maybe.
But since it's never happened in this country, you've little to worry about.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 21:23, Reply)
This is a normal post I wonder
"Schools with a significant number of Muslim pupils should try to avoid scheduling swimming lessons during Ramadan to remove unnecessary barriers to full participation"

what if my child was in the minority here and prevented from attending swimming lessons during their Ramadan? Or even another religious faith with no observance to Ramadan?

That entire report is complete bollocks
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 21:32, Reply)
This is a normal post Hmmm...
But there's a difference between being prevented from having swimming lessons, and being prevented at a particular time. And if there's a lot of people in the class who would reject lessons at that time, it may be better - in the sense of less faff - just to bite the bullet.

I take your point, and I'm generally pretty sympathetic - but I'm not wholly convinced that it's all that big an issue.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 21:35, Reply)
This is a normal post To be honest
It's silly little reports like this which just float down gently into the hands of cunts like the Daily Mail or the Sun

Why give them the ammunition?
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 21:42, Reply)
This is a normal post This ^
When we were at school, we did swimming for probably about 1/4 of the year? So if swimming during Ramadan is going to mean finding something else for a large portion of the class to do, wouldn't it just be easier to schedule swimming for some other time?
 (I helped save b3ta! Incredibly Ordinary Dave needs your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 21:44, Reply)
This is a normal post Fuck that
My original point:

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 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 21:55, Reply)
This is a normal post But they will go swimming, just not at that time.
I'm guessing other schools are the same as mine was, and swimming doesn't happen all year 'round anyway, so what difference does it make if it takes place at some other time of the year?

If they don't want to go swimming during Ramadan, you're not going to change their minds, and short of throwing them into the swimming pool, that means you'll have to have another teacher sit with them and find them something else to do, which is a pain in the bum, so why not just have the swimming in some other month?

If kids really want to go swimming during Ramadan, there are plenty of "Kids swim free" type schemes around.
 (I helped save b3ta! Incredibly Ordinary Dave needs your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 22:02, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh dear
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 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 22:07, Reply)
This is a normal post But it wouldn't stop them from swimming.
And it's got nothing to do with hurting their sentiments.

That's what I'm trying to say. =/
 (I helped save b3ta! Incredibly Ordinary Dave needs your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 22:25, Reply)
This is a normal post *Sigh*
For fuck's sake geezer

"I'm guessing other schools are the same as mine was, and swimming doesn't happen all year 'round anyway, so what difference does it make if it takes place at some other time of the year?

If they don't want to go swimming during Ramadan, you're not going to change their minds, and short of throwing them into the swimming pool, that means you'll have to have another teacher sit with them and find them something else to do, which is a pain in the bum, so why not just have the swimming in some other month?"

I don't want any disruption to my child's schedule due to religious belief; why is this so hard to grasp?
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 22:37, Reply)
This is a normal post It might teach the non-Muslim kids acceptance of other peoples way of lives
Which is no bad thing
 (I helped save b3ta! applehead herp derp, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 21:51, Reply)
This is a normal post i agree
this is a document prepared by:

"EMAS: The Ethnic Minority Achievement Service"

that then states:

"Schools with a significant number of Muslim pupils should try to avoid scheduling
swimming lessons during Ramadan to remove unnecessary barriers to full
participation."

so then the other kids are the minority but their rights are sidelined and the musilim kids rigths come first.

ok.
 (I helped save b3ta! Avast is still alive!!!!, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 21:54, Reply)
This is a normal post I doubt that it would ever happen...
Why?

Because Ramadan lasts for 1 month, usually throughout August and sometimes the first week of September.

This BARELY overlaps with the first week of the new school year.

Ergo, much ado about FUCK ALL!
 (I helped save b3ta! mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 22:32, Reply)
This is a normal post from Enzymes link below
the document states that:

"The Islamic calendar is based on a lunar cycle, therefore, the month of Ramadan
begins 10 or 11 days earlier each year on the Gregorian calendar; hence it takes
Ramadan about 33 years to move through the seasons from January to December"

thus is can be in any month.

www.moderngov.stoke.gov.uk/Published/C00000117/M00003568/AI00022934/$Ramadan1doc.docA.ps.pdf
 (I helped save b3ta! Avast is still alive!!!!, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 23:01, Reply)