Krishna Avanti School
Well done to Harrow for providing the first state-funded Hindu School in Britain. It's not before time - after all, there are nearly 1m Hindus living in this country, most of them law-abiding tax-paying citizens, and they are almost certainly net contributors to our economy.The UK has thousands of state-funded Christian denominational schools, so it is only fair that other faiths should be accorded the same privilege.Some interesting facts about this new school:-It has a strictly vegetarian diet for school dinners;It abides by the National Curriculum;It has regular yoga sessions;It is already five times over-subscribed;Its intake includes a number of pupils who are not of the Hindu faith;It has already won plaudits for its environmental credentials.The largest minority ethnic group in Harrow are the Gujaratis (most of whom are Hindu) but the borough also benefitted from being the 2nd largest recipient of the Ugandan Asians (after Leicester), whose passage of entry into the UK was granted by the late Sir Edward Heath - in the teeth of opposition from the odious Enoch Powell. Many of these Ugandan Asians are also Hindu.I predict that the new school will achieve exceptionally good results, both in terms of academic attainment and in terms of maintaining the cultural identity of pupils.Identity IS important.
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