The article ‘Jewish school racial discrimination case goes to supreme court’ on the Guardian website, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/26/jewish-school-discrimination-case-court, discuses ongoing suit against a Jewish school who denied a student admittance, possibly due to religion.
The court of appeal said that the admission criteria were unlawful because children with Jewish mothers were given priority. From the article, it is unclear if this is true or not, but the school did say that it does give priority to children of Jewish faith. I think the article could’ve been stronger by including more information about the child like his faith or his school record. According to the article, this school is the best Jewish school in Britain and it is only natural that they can’t accept everyone who applies. He could’ve just been a bad student. But it is important for a private school with religion to try to get as many people from that religion, because the parents’ intentions of putting their children in these kinds of schools is to help them develop their faith and meet more people who share the same faith.
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