Sir Michael Wilshaw, where are these illegal schools run by the ‘Jewish community’?

Apparently, there are secret Jewish schools in Britain where children are taught nothing but the Jewish faith, where they are exposed to homophobic literature, where all music and the arts are banned and where they are indoctrinated by extremists. How do we know? Because Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has told us. Admittedly he didn’t quite say so in those terms but that is what he ended up implying on Radio 4’s PM programme earlier this week.

Interviewed by Eddie Mair about the 100 or so illegal schools reported to be operating behind the backs of education inspectors, Sir Michael described the problem. Parents abuse the law providing the right for home education by taking their children out of mainstream schools. But instead of educating them at home, what they in fact do is pay for them to attend clandestine schools in old factories and warehouses. Some have running drains through the middle of the classroom.