Safeguarding and conspiracy theorists to report?

The latest one is that the chemical they're giving cows to stop them farting Co2 was invented by Bill Gates. The purpose is to get it into OUR bodies via consumption of dairy products and then he can brainwash us to do his will. My colleague (who has a degree!) said Bill Gates is evil. But of course Mainstream Media won't tell us such things!

She's not going to say what the theories are. I bet it's that he thinks covid escaped from a lab in Wuhan. Remember when people said only crackpots believed that and it was censored on every SM platform?

He's a bit vague but overall he's not far off. Anyone who knows anything about politics and history knows this.

Think back to September when you should have done your PREVENT training again.

It said it in there, didn't it?

He's a teacher who wears a t-shirt to work that says his pronouns are 'told you so'?!
That literally doesn't make sense in the English language. I'd be concerned about his intelligence levels. Have parents made any comments or complaints about him?
As for his conspiracies, they certainly shouldn't be presented as fact in terms of his job teaching/guiding kids, if at all.
Teachers should be as neutral as possible politically, religiously etc around their students. While teaching about different perspectives in a balanced way.
Do you think he'd accept feedback from you or would it need to go higher up?

My colleague holds these views and she works with young children. She doesn't impose them on the kids though. It's is a bit scary. During Covid she used to laugh at her DH's ideas and now over the past 4 years, she's bought into it. We used to have good chats about the world but I can't anymore.

Anyway, suffice to say if she started on the Bill Gates stuff with the 4yos I would be reporting her.

There are a LOT of people now believing this stuff, I work with a vocal supporter of it. Fortunately, it is not in the educational environment.
We get bombarded daily with his beliefs. If it comes from mainstream, he doesn't believe it.
He just says everything he says comes out eventually, and everything gets hidden from us it's all online though and we don't know shit as 'they' want to control us.

And this is why the OP needs to give context

Is he discussing CT in order to get kids thinking critically about what they see on the news - not everything reported turns out to be true, so that type of discussion wouldn’t necessarily be a concern.

If he is pushing CT as fact, in a way that could be harmful to children, then that would be something I would report.

Of course children shouldn’t be taught conspiracy theories at school, can’t believe that’s something worth a debate

Report it to the head of department or headteacher OP, he shouldn’t be teaching children his views like that.

This is a very good point, to a devout atheist religion seems like a conspiracy theory…

Am curious - if he was speaking about religious beliefs would you be as concerned?

I do think some conspiracy theories are probably not far from the truth and the majority are miles from the truth. I think the problem comes when it becomes an obsession but I would say the same about any belief e.g. religion etc.....

I doubt he is telling them things they don't know. Also I think their ( the kids ) own browsing history is much wilder than his

I don't think the vast majority would dispute that Hollywood (which has lots of men with significant power) exploit and abuse young people and cover it up with their wealth, and that there are lots of bystanders to this? Men do this all the time (look at Giselle Pelicot), it's just on a larger scale in Hollywood. We've all seen what has happened to young female Disney stars over the years. It's hardly a conspiracy to recognise that men (and especially wealthy men) commit horrible crimes.

But, that does not mean celebrities are wearing clothes and making symbols hinting that there are part of the Illuminati. It does not mean there is a child eating cabal who drink Adrenochrome to stay young. That is Christian propaganda. We do not live in a Dan Brown novel where people litter hints about a secret Satanic society.

And some things aren't opinions. It is a fact that the MMR vaccine has saved millions of people and prevents the spread of disease. The reason my 'opinion' is correct (as opposed to someone who believes this vaccine is somehow dangerous) is because there are numerous peer reviewed journals backing this up. Joe Bloggs ranting about vaccines on a YouTube video is not evidence. People who watch these have not 'done their research', despite what they say.

Some things are backed up by statistical evidence and numerous studies.

That t shirt wouldn’t be allowed in my school. This person is completely unprofessional, and I think it would be good for you to tell someone that the way they speak to the children can be inappropriate and it makes you uncomfortable.

What sort of things is he actually saying OP? Remember that ‘Covid comes from a lab in China’ was a conspiracy theory once, and mention of it on some platforms was banned until it was proven to be true.

I find CTs interesting. I do not believe them all, in fact you never can know if they are true or not so I don’t ever pick a hill to die on, I just find it interesting to discuss alternatives or ‘what ifs’
In fact, I think it’s stranger not to believe ANY CT’s… do you really think that everything we have ever been told and will ever be told is true?? I find that hard to believe.

Anyway, without any context about what he is actually saying I would say YABU. Better to teach people to think critically rather than silence speech in most instances

Usually concern about a member of staff should be reported to the head. It is much better to report and there be to nothing in it than to stay quiet. You don’t have to go in all guns blazing but an email or conversation laying out your concerns similar to hope you have here.

Report to DSL.

Your Code of Conduct should definitely have a section on social media and likely something about sharing political or religious views.

Teachers can't come out with this stuff so support shouldn't either.

If it was one of my pupils I'd be making a Prevent referral.

It's been known for many years that Hollywood producers, singers, actors, etc abuse the people they work with. It's been brushed under the carpet, accepted as the price of rising through the ranks, etc. That was never a conspiracy theory just something that was tolerated.

When I told my mum that sexual abuse in Hollywood is strife etc with Pdiddy, JayZ etc years ago I got called a conspiracy theorist.

Funny when the Pdiddy thing came out, how I was in fact correct

Why is her opinion wrong? Why isn't yours?

Or low level allegations policy - again I’d expect referral to head or hr