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A theology graduate has complained that a display about 17th century attitudes to witchcraft put together by school pupils as a history project encourages discrimination.
Theology graduate Pauline Charles said the 17th Century attitudes had no place in a 21st Century classroom.
She saw the exhibition when she went to an adult education workshop at the college and was shocked the paintings were stereotypical images of old women with bulbous noses and tall hats.
She said:I was horrified schoolchildren should be encouraged to discriminate in this way.
A local 'white witch', Marina Pepper, did not feel oppressed on being told about the exhibition and was keen to see it.
It sounds very much like this was a proper history project to me. I would be intrigued to see the paintings. I am sure the students will have learnt from it that religious fundamentalism in any form is wrong.
School in 'witch discrimination' row - The Argus, 19th March 2003.
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