A group of students at a collège in the centre of the rose city of Toulouse walked out of music class because their teacher played them a Beatles song during Ramadan. They were reprimanded by the headmistress, who made a report to the headmaster’s office.
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The music education teacher plays a Beatles song to investigate the structure of the piece. A pupil stands up and refuses to continue following the lesson on the grounds that he is not allowed to listen to music during Ramadan. He leaves the room, followed by seven other students, “not all of whom are of the Muslim faith and who followed their classmate out of peer pressure rather than religious conviction,” explains Mostafa Fourar, the headmaster of the Toulouse academy.
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According to our information, another incident of this kind occurred at Collège Les Chalets, almost at the same time. A teacher reported: “I think it happened in the third class a few weeks ago. A group of girls asked their teacher not to sit next to the boys because they were menstruating and it was the time of Ramadan. The young teacher, a little put off by their request, complied. After that, everything was fine again. However, the teaching team intervened so that something like this would not happen again.”La Dépêche