Religious symbols and clothes in state schools

[TalkinPeace]

Is this the daftest yet?
www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/13642059.Families_furious_after_Southampton_schoolgirls_forced_to_remove_turbans/

NB
The older girls have been at the school for years.
They were born in the UK

Answer is in the first paragraph. They're attending a Catholic school.

I think they should be permitted to wear what they wish. It's school not church. Either that or no religious symbols at all in school.

They should be able to wear them if they want to. My kids all go to "religious" private schools and the Muslim girls are still allowed to wear their headscarves etc. They still have to go to religious services but they can wear their scarves no problem.

The school thought they were a fashion item, not a religious one. Its an all or nothing scenario really isn't it. Either people can ornament themselves with religious wear/symbols as they see fit or they can't.

Either people can ornament themselves with religious wear/symbols as they see fit or they can't.

we have religious freedom in this country, don't we?

I must confess I have never heard of Sikh women wearing turbans. You learn something new every day, I guess.

I have never heard of Sikh women wearing turbans either.

I wonder whether the older ones were wearing them last year, I am guessing not from the article. So I can see why the school might have considered it fashion rather than religion (because if it was religion the school might have thought they would have been wearing them before).

But it seems to have been sensibly resolved.

I think the school messed up, seems totally inappropriate to start taking of the older girls turban or suggest they wear hijabs like the Muslim girls.

If you are allowed to wear a turban on a motorbike without a helmet due to its religious importance is seem's totally out of kilter for the school to think turbans have such little importance to their wearers.

But as they have apologised it is probably an non issue now.

More and more Sikh women are wearing turbans. I worked with a Sikh girl for a couple of years who wore one. It was more practical for her as their religion doesn't permit them to cut their hair.