Simon Darby BNP personality interviewed by pupils in their classroom

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A comparison central in the British National Party was invited to residence a classroom on either the hijab should be banned, The Times has learnt.

Simon Darby, the BNPs emissary leader, was phoned by 14-year-old students in Rochdale, Lancashire. The pupils, supervised by a teacher, asked him questions over the phone about the French anathema on the hijab. The BNPs process is to anathema Islamic skirt in schools.

Andy Rymer, the head of Matthew Moss High School, told The Times that the students were you do a plan on headlines stating and had referred to contacting the BNP. He said: We ask kids to be critically curious. This was something they were meddlesome in and longed for to check out. They did so in a upheld approach with an smart teacher.

(The school) is not enlivening people to hit or widespread the truth of the BNP. Equally we have a poignant series of kids in here for whom those issues are really real.

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However, the move lifted regard from a little relatives and Paul Rowe, the areas Liberal Democrat MP who alone participated in the discussion.

Mr Rowe pronounced that there were copiousness of alternative domestic parties that could have been consulted and that it was inapt for students to plead issues with the BNP. He said: Im endangered that anybody is giving succour to the BNP.

Some Asian relatives at the school, in the Castleton area of the town, spoke of their regard at permitting the BNP a voice in the classroom.

Jamil Khan, whose daughter wears a headscarf to school, said: I do not feel gentle with the participation of the BNP in the classroom. They are extremists, full stop. They can usually paint the design one way.

However, most relatives pronounced that they were happy to leave the make a difference to the option of the clergyman and the school. Its governors pronounced that as prolonged as the issue was rubbed carefully, there was no reason to bar the BNP as the celebration was active in the area and students would come opposite it eventually.

Ted Flynn, a administrator and internal councillor, said: Ive no magnetism with the BNP at all. But the pupils are smart sufficient not to be wavered by Nick Griffin and his compatriots opinions.

Mr Raymer pronounced that a organisation of Asian students were endeavour a plan on headlines stating and had motionless to examine the British greeting to the French Governments preference to anathema the hijab from schools.

He pronounced they were not confident by Mr Darbys reply on the issue as he referred to British propagandize uniforms.

Mr Raymer said: At the finish they were indignant their subject hadnt been answered properly. The contention incited to how reporters work to get answers.

On his blog, Mr Darby said: It was calming to think that even in 2010 politically scold Britain there are still teachers who demand on the old proverb that if you dont have entrance to all the information, you will never come up with the right answer.

It comes as a supervision examination is due on either BNP members should be prevented from apropos teachers. Police and jail officers are already barred from fasten the party.

A orator for the Department for Children, Schools and Families said: We certitude head teachers as professionals to safeguard suitable visitors are invited in to their propagandize and that student gratification and reserve issues are considered.

The orator pronounced the graduation of narrow-minded domestic views was forbidden, adding that there were safeguards in law to ensure opposite inequitable or lunatic teaching.