I long to know which story by Arthur Conan Doyle was judged, by the censors at Yesodey Hatorah senior girls’ school, to be so contaminating to young female minds, that bits had to be hidden. Did it feature cocaine? Bare wrists? Or was the presence, within the same room, of Holmes, Watson and an unchaperoned Mary Morstan more offensive to leaders who also redacted sections of a text on Elizabethan England that mentioned, Ofsted reports, “the Queen’s supremacy”.
These, anyway, were just two of the extensive educational oddities uncovered by Ofsted inspectors: their new report ranks the Haredi-run school as “inadequate”. It found: “Leaders do not encourage pupils’ respect for other people because they do not acknowledge some groups in society.” The word “homosexual” was, for example, redacted in text about the Holocaust.
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