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Does this show that education and religion should be separated?

Girls as young as four are being “forced to wear the hijab” as uniform at state-funded Islamic schools, new research has found.
More than two in five Islamic schools in England that accept girls require them to wear a hijab as school uniform, according to the research.
Some 59 of 142 (42 per cent) of Islamic schools, including 27 primary schools, have a uniform policy which states a head-covering is compulsory, the National Secular Society (NSS) said.
The body has written to Education Secretary Justine Greening to express its concern over the figures, which also showed eight of the secondary schools and three of the primary schools were state-funded.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/educ...-a3642331.html