The West Midlands school is belatedly celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid and told its pupils and teachers to don traditional Muslim dress for the day.
All 257 pupils, most of whom are Christians, and 41 teachers – two of whom are Muslims – dressed up.
Teachers were told to dress as Muslims to promote diversity at a primary school
A morning assembly was held to mark the event and an afternoon party was strictly for women only, because Muslim husbands object to wives mixing with other men. Sally Bloomer, head of Rufford primary school in Lye, West Midlands, told The Sun:
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‘I have not heard of any complaints. It’s all part of a diversity project to promote multi-culturalism.’
But a relative of one of the staff reportedly said:
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‘Who would put their job on the line? They have been told they have to embrace the day to show their diversity. But they are not all happy.’
