(BBC) A school led by former government social mobility tsar Katharine Birbalsingh is being challenged in the High Court over a policy allegedly amounting to a “prayer ban.”
Michaela School in Brent, north London, introduced a policy in March 2023 “banning prayer rituals.”
A Muslim student at the school told the High Court on Tuesday the policy is discriminatory.
The school will set out its defence in court on Wednesday.
The hearing was told that the school’s stance was first introduced in March last year by its founder and headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh and later “re-made” by its governing body in May.
