A state-funded free Christian school in the United Kingdom will be forced to shut down after government inspectors deemed the school "inadequate" and claimed that the school's students displayed "discriminatory views" toward people of other faiths.
After the British government created new guidelines for how school inspectors rated schools, inspectors were told to evaluate schools, in their annual Ofsted inspection reports, on how school's promote "British values."
After inspectors visited the Durham Free School, which educates 94 students aged 11 to 13, last November, it was deemed that the school did not meet the required standards for just about every aspect of the inspection: leadership and management, behaviour and safety, quality of teaching and achievement of pupils.
Although the school was praised by the U.K.'s former education secretary when it first opened in September of 2013, the inspectors' report stated that the quality of the student's work was low, teachers didn't have a high expectation of their students, and progress did not meet the necessary standards.
Additionally, the report stated that the school placed "too much emphasis on religious credentials" when hiring staff and the school didn't put enough emphasis in recruiting teaching candidates with "excellent leadership and teaching skills."
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