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A Muslim free school in Derby will be closed unless "unacceptable" teaching standards improve and discrimination against female staff and pupils stops. In a letter to the chair of the Al-Madinah Education Trust, Education Minister Lord Nash laid out 17 issues. These included forcing female teachers to cover their hair and failing to carry out background checks on staff. The interim principal said its pupils were treated equally. The school's trust said it was seeking legal advice. Aftab Rehman sends his two daughters to the school, and in this extract he speaks to Â鶹Éç Radio Derby’s Satvinder Rana…