Militantly liberal teachers demand that schools should stop promoting ‘British values’.

Posted by Kumiko Oumae on Tuesday, 29 March 2016 13:31.

Sometimes I notice stories that are so awful that I almost think it’s some kind of joke, before I realise that it’s actually serious.

Here’s one such example of this:

Daily Mail, ‘Militant teachers demand schools stop promoting ‘British values’ as it makes children from other cultures feel inferior’, 28 Mar 2016:

You are about to be culturally enriched.
That moment when memes meet reality.
  • Guidelines want to encourage children to appreciate British values
  • But teachers reject the move, which they say is linked to colonialism
  • Critics have accused teaching unions of waging ‘ideological war’

Teachers are demanding that schools stop promoting ‘fundamental British values’ over claims it could make children think other cultures are inferior.

The National Union of Teachers said telling children about the country’s democracy, law and traditions could encourage ‘cultural supremacy’ and urged a new focus on ‘international human rights’ instead.

Under government guidelines, which are aimed at tackling extremism in the wake of the Trojan Horse scandal, children must be taught about being a British citizen as well as tolerance other faiths and lifestyles.

However, union leaders said the term was demeaning to other cultures ‘particularly in the context of multicultural schools and the wider picture of migration’.

Delegates passed a motion in favour of campaigning to scrap it during the NUT annual conference in Brighton today.

Christopher Denson, an NUT representative from Coventry, said: ‘We need to fight to reject this notion of British values, to fight for notions of human values and human rights.

‘We have to stand together across communities to bring down barriers, bring down borders, to say no to Islamophobia, no to anti-Semitism, no to fascism and any form of racism.’

The motion said that migrants make a ‘huge economic, political and social contribution’ to the country and that public services and businesses would ‘face severe difficulties’ without them.

It criticised the government for only taking in a ‘minute fraction’ of refugees and vowed to campaign for ‘policies that welcome’ them to the country.

The union agreed to ‘gather and collate’ teaching materials on migrants and refugees for members to use in classrooms from now on.

Mr Denson said he disliked using the term ‘fundamental British values’ in his classroom when many of his pupils had ancestry in countries which had encountered British colonialism.

He said: ‘The inherent cultural supremacism in that term is both unnecessary and unacceptable.

‘And seen with the Prevent agenda, it belies the most thinly veiled racism and a conscious effort to divide communities.’

He added: ‘It’s our duty to push real anti-racist work in all schools. And that doesn’t mean talk of tolerating other’s views, but genuine, inclusive anti-racist work.’

He said he had requested a week of themed assemblies every year in his school, with topics including apartheid and the rise of Islamophobia ‘in the context of anti-Semitism in the 1930s’.

‘This year we focussed on the migrant crisis in Calais, the Mediterranean and beyond,’ he added.

‘We organised a politics day for Year 8s [aged 12 to 13] in the week before Easter.

‘They had a day to form a political party in their tutor groups to come up with a manifesto, film a broadcast, and make banners and take part in a debate.

‘Apart from the quality of the work, the other thing that really made my proud was that every single tutor group had as a policy, ‘refugees welcome, open the borders’.

‘We need to be pushing at every level for anti-racism to be in the core curriculum for every child.’

Many of the activists at the conference said they had been to migrant camps over the channel to take food and provisions.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the NUT said: ‘Schools and teachers play a key role in welcoming migrant and refugee children and young people to this country, and supporting their progress within schools.

‘The NUT condemns the Government’s inadequate response to the current migrant situation, which has exacerbated the suffering for so many, including school-age children and young people.

‘The NUT has produced a guide to Welcoming Refugee Children to your School and has a dedicated section on its website for teaching resources which have been provided by teachers for teachers, on the issue.

‘The NUT will continue to work with Show Racism the Red Card, Hope Not Hate and others, to campaign for Government policies that welcome migrants and refugees to this country. The NUT will also continue to press for anti-racism work to be enshrined within the curriculum of all schools.’

The requirement on schools to teach fundamental British values was introduced in 2014 in a bid to crack down on extremism in schools.

It followed the Trojan Horse scandal, in which state schools in Birmingham were infiltrated by hardliners who tried to impose an Islamic agenda.

Ofsted, the schools regulator, has been penalising schools which do not sufficiently show that they are promoting British values.

Chris McGovern, of the Campaign for Real Education, said: ‘Teachers should not be playing the role of fifth columnists in the ideological war currently being fought over our national identity and our national sovereignty.

‘Teaching children that British values are part of “cultural supremacism” will, at best, make them feel guilty about being British and, at worst, radicalise them in order to ‘make up’ for the sins of their fathers.

‘If one wishes to destroy a nation and build a “brave new world” you begin by indoctrinating and brainwashing the children.

‘This process of ‘re-education’ has started some years ago in our schools and we are, now, seeing its consequences in the suppression of free speech on our university campuses.

‘The notion of ‘value relativism’ - that all views are equally valid - has reached saturation point in our schools.

‘In many classrooms this has led to the views of terrorists being given equal weigh to those of the victim of terrorism. Against this background the latest motions from the NUT come as no surprise, at all.’

The Department for Education has been contacted for comment.

I’m sure that the Department for Education will be just as speechless as I am right now.



Comments:


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Posted by DanielS on Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:52 | #

Thank you, Kumiko. Very good cull, a perfect example of the anti-racist NUTwork:

Christopher Denson, a NUT representative from Coventry, said: ‘We need to fight to reject this notion of British values, to fight for notions of human values and human rights.

‘We have to stand together across communities to bring down barriers, bring down borders, to say no to Islamophobia, no to anti-Semitism, no to fascism and any form of racism.’

‘The NUT condemns the Government’s inadequate response to the current migrant situation, which has exacerbated the suffering for so many, including school-age children and young people.

The NUT has produced a guide to Welcoming Refugee Children to your School and has a dedicated section on its website for teaching resources which have been provided by teachers for teachers, on the issue.

The NUT will continue to work with Show Racism the Red Card, Hope Not Hate and others, to campaign for Government policies that welcome migrants and refugees to this country. The NUT will also continue to press for anti-racism work to be enshrined within the curriculum of all schools.’


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Posted by Ryan on Tue, 29 Mar 2016 22:38 | #

Is it not too far fetched to think that the decision by the union is not just political theatre to make there look to be this deep political divide between mainstream left & right and most importantly that the Tories are some kind of bulkwork against ultra nihilists.

What the Conservatives call ‘British Values’ are positions which are framed to indoctrinate that multiculturalism is legitimate and opposing it is ‘hate’. All together a thing colour-blind cuckservatives think is stopping liberals but is actually just embracing the last generation on liberals.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 29 Mar 2016 23:55 | #

Educational theory was probably on its way to being a lost cause back in the 1860s or so, never mind the 1960s.  The Department of Education, or whatever it calls itself today, has been a hotbed of radical, not to say insane educational ideology for decades.  Even 18 years of continuous Tory rule did not dent it; and the madness survives to this day.  The whole academic structure has to be de-loused and its missionary zeal to make our children citizens of some frightful neo-Marxistic, post-racial, post-knowledge utopia ground to dust.


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Posted by McGruber on Wed, 30 Mar 2016 07:52 | #

There is often some solidarity between the lower-classes and immigrants. Not in the way a college-marxist might envisage or because Soros is paying off leftist unions… but the situation is common. e.g. If i’m in a factory and the African guy (come from halfway around the world from his wartorn shithole) next to me is also breaking his back each day… then he is not my enemy.

Yeah they’re taking our jobs/lowering wages, but who caused the situation?


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Posted by White American mom deported from UK on Thu, 14 Apr 2016 22:24 | #

White Genocide Project, “UK deports White American mother, separating her from her baby, but Muslim men welcome”, 11 April 2016:


American-mother-deported

The UK Home Office, in charge of immigration, is again showing its anti-White bias by deporting an American mother who started a family with an English man.

English-born Dominic James and his American-born wife Katy have a two year-old daughter who was born in Eastbourne, England.

Katy has lived and worked in Britain since 2003, and has never claim benefits (welfare). The couple have been married for nine years, but she has been separated from her baby daughter after the Home Office deported her back to the US, because the family temporarily moved there in 2009.

Dominic James said “We recently applied for a visa, requesting the Home Office to consider an application for my wife to remain in the UK. We included 15 letters of support, including personal messages from close friends, our doctor, our daughter Madeline’s nursery, our parish priest and bank manager.”

“Our family wrote the stories of how my grandfathers fought and died in the wars for our country, to secure the freedom of their future generations. But it was all to no avail: the Home Office says that my wife can return to the US on her own, leaving me to look after our daughter without her mother.”

“They refused our application on the grounds that breaking a family apart is a reasonable and justifiable decision, even though Madeline’s life will be broken apart.”

“I rue the day I decided to try life in America for a temporary period in 2009 as I had no idea that the UK government would close the door on us and deny us the right to return. All of us who find ourselves unable to live here with our non-EU spouses never expected it; a betrayal of our rights as British citizens, locked out of our own country, exiled for the mistakes made by previous immigration policies.”

“Our life has been on hold since we applied. Their verdict is a great blow to us and will impact the life of all our close family, and especially my daughter.”

Last September, we saw the anti-White agenda on display again when a 14 year-old Ukrainian Orphan girl was being deported, despite her English adoptive parents begging not to send her back to her war-torn country.

Meanwhile, Britain, a White Christian country, has plenty of room for “thousands” (David Cameron’s words) of “Syrian” men that Brown Muslim countries aren’t interested in helping.

You see, even though Britain may have a Conservative government, but they, like a Liberal or Labour government also want to “diversify” the country.

Whether left-wing or right-wing, those in the top parts of society are aiming to destroy White majority countries by mixing us with non-White people.

If this was done to any other group on the planet, Tibetans for example, it would be called genocide, and only an evil psychopath would support such an agenda.

However, we are living in a world where White genocide is not only acceptable but desirable, and to publicly oppose this agenda can get you in trouble with the law, in some countries.

Fortunately, it is perfectly legal to call them out and say “diversity” is just a code word for White genocide – they can’t take that from us.



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