Posted on 12/13/2005 6:45:03 PM PST by Pikamax
Parents' fury over sausage roll row
Dec 12 2005 South Wales Echo
SHOCKED parents are threatening to take their children out of school after a mix-up led to Muslim pupils being offered sausage rolls.
Parents with children at Mount Stuart Primary School, Butetown, Cardiff, were distraught as pork is forbidden for Muslims.
School governor Mohammed Islam said: “It is shocking. I don’t understand how this has happened.”
One Muslim woman, who has a son and daughter at the school, said: “Half the community is Muslim, so everyone has been affected by this.
“A lot of people are panicking.”
Mr Islam, 33, of Grangetown, who has three children - aged four, eight and 11 - at the school, said: “My daughters didn’t eat it, but my son is only four and didn’t know what it was.
“Lots of people are very upset. My daughters were crying when they came home. We’re giving them packed lunches now and thinking of taking them out of the school.
“We are trying to find out if this has happened before.”
The school has now held a meeting with parents to reassure them it won’t happen again.
Mr Islam has written to Cardiff council’s chief schools officer, Hugh Knight, calling for an investigation.
“The Muslim communities in the Butetown, Grangetown and Riverside areas are very upset after hearing of this incident.," he said.
A Cardiff council spokeswoman said: “A lapse of supervision by catering staff at Mount Stuart Primary School in Butetown occurred on Tuesday, December 6, when children with a preference for non-pork products were served meat-based sausage rolls from a wide range of foods offered.
“Pupils did not consume the food as the mistake was detected in time and the food was removed immediately.
“Representatives from Cardiff council’s schools catering service have met with parents, teachers and governors at the school to discuss the incident and ensure that additional safeguards are in place so there is no repeat.
“We take this issue very seriously and apologise for this regrettable and isolated incident.”
THEY are the visitors. They are in a foreign land. Let THEM adapt.
My goodness! How horrible! Next thing you know the teachers will begin hacking the heads off these children!
Yiy, yiy, yiy, yiy, yiy!
Chill, folks.
their = they're
Pardon me while I barf!
Where does it say that they ate sausage. I don't see the big deal.
Merry CHRISTMAS, and Happy Chanukkah to Mr. "iSlam" and his family!
If they won't eat bangers and mash or toad in a hole, they ain't Brits.
I heard it caused such a flap that they almost cancelled the martyrdom enrichment classes.
“Pupils did not consume the food as the mistake was detected in time and the food was removed immediately.
But,but,but....they might have SEEN pork and.....wondered.
Bad odds when all you can arm yourself with is a cricket bat.
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Wow...can't find the part of the article that states Muslim students were FORCED to eat sausage.....
Those distraught parents should immediately apologize for this little hissy fit thrown over nothing.
So muslim parents were upset their kids got porked?
"“Half the community is Muslim, so everyone has been affected by this."
Tragic if true.
Sure, I'm shocked, shocked, too. (Not really.)
Laughing.
Yes... back when we were scientifically ignorant, and didn't know that pork needs to be cooked fully, it made sense to avoid pigmeat so as to not develop trichinosis.
But there aren't any "unclean" meats as opposed to clean ones.
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