Why was a GCSE student disqualified for criticising halal meat?

[rangerrebew]

Why was a GCSE student disqualified for criticising halal meat?
 

Brendan O'Neill

19 August 2019

3:12 PM

We have to talk about the schoolgirl who was disqualified from a GCSE exam on the grounds that she had made ‘obscene racial comments’ about Islam. This bizarre incident is being chalked up to overzealous wokeness on the part of some GCSE examiners. But it’s more than that. It tells us a bigger story about 21st-century Britain and the creeping criminalisation of any questioning of Islam. Too many institutions now believe it is their role to monitor and even punish anti-Islam ‘blasphemy’.

The girl — Abigail Ward — is 16 years old and a strict vegetarian. In her GCSE Religious Studies exam she wrote some critical comments about halal meat. She described the butchery involved in the preparation of halal meat as ‘absolutely disgusting’. The exam board OCR accused her of having made ‘obscene racial comments’ and disqualified her exam paper. Her school appealed, and won. OCR apologised for the ‘upset and stress’ it had caused Miss Ward.

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/08/why-was-a-gcse-student-disqualified-for-criticising-halal-meat/

[Sanguine]

A rare win in this war.

[Wingnut]

A Daily Mail investigation found this week that OCR - which oversaw 163,000 A-level entries this year – offered A-level ‘assessor’ roles to a reporter in two subjects in which she had no qualifications.

The reporter applied online for two marking roles in history and Latin using fabricated CVs.

At no stage did OCR or its management company, Cambridge Assessment, check any of her claims, seek any references or verify any of the qualifications.

The reporter was then added to OCR’s ‘approved assessor’ list.

OCR insisted the reporter would have been put through ‘robust’ training and ‘standardisation’ tests before actually being given any papers to mark, but did not explain why its staff had failed to check references before approving the application.

Anyone wanna bet on where the offending "reporters" allegiance laid?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7368563/Vegetarian-GCSE-student-disqualified-obscene-racial-comments-halal-meat-RS-exam.html