Segregated education at the secretive Gloriavale sect will not be investigated despite concerns for children’s rights, a select committee has decided.
The Education Review Office was called before the Education and Science Select Committee today to explain why the extreme fundamentalist school was allowed to teach separate subjects for girls and boys, and stop education early.
Green MP Catherine Delahunty was hoping for an investigation into the isolated community’s school, saying it was breaching the rights of children to a broad education, however it was decided against. Continue reading
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