The best primary school in England, St Stephen's in Newham, East London, received a lot of criticism and hence, decided to reverse its ban on children under the age of 8 wearing hijabs at school.
Chairman of the education select committee, Robert Halfon, said that it was “wrong” for the school to be receiving such criticism. This has led to the resignation of the chairman of governors at St Stephen's, Arif Qawi. Robert Halfon said, “I am certainly in support of this school. It has very good results. We have to be very careful that very, very young children are not being forced by more hardline elements outside the school to do things that may not be right for the children.”
