cause he is Jewish

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Apologies cant see a thread about this.
Staff at Bristol Brunel academy blocked a visit by Damien Egan, their local MP because he is Jewish. Clear case of antisemitism. AIBU to thinking that headteacher and those driving this decision should be sacked and reported to the Teacher Regulation Agency?
(Apologies thread title isnt correct, but i can't edit it)

I'm not shocked at the teachers, parents or the union.

A section of the new breed of teachers has forgotten that the pupils are/should be their main concern but seem to want to put either political dogma or certain ideologies before the health, safety and well being of the pupils in their care.

As for the NEU it too seems to have forgotten that its main purpose in existing is to protect the rights of its members. Something that it should try really hard to get back to before protecting ill thought out political goals.

What, the ridiculous question "Do you think it’s ok to put children at risk"?

If "not putting children at risk" meant giving in to any bully or blackmailer who threatened to harm children if they, the bullies, didn't get their own way about whatever they chose, our society would have lost its principles completely and not be worth saving.

Your turn.

So your answer is "yes", you do think that its ok to put childrenat risk.

That disturbing, but good to know.

Weak.

Grow up.

If that's your best response then you have some growing up to do yourself.

Hardly. Not sure it dignified any response, let alone anyone's "best". Think I'll save my energies, thanks. Nighty night.

I think the more nuanced response is that I think the children are ‘more’ at risk by having this cancelled. The risk of internalising that you shouldn’t listen to anyone you disagree with about anything and that it’s ok to be a bigot. The risk that comes with it going ahead is that there’s a peaceful protest correct? That seems fine.

So are you going to answer my question now?

I’ll repeat it for you: Do you think anyone should be able to dictate which events at a school are allowed to take place, by making threats of what they will do if events they disagree with are held?

Yes, it's very worrying that this seems to be the direction of travel. An event is planned. A group of people threaten to disrupt it. The event is cancelled. Rinse and repeat.

Is that what's in store for this country?

It seems that Yes, you can get something cancelled by doing just that. Israeli football team? Hell, yeah.

Once pesky Jews have been driven out of the country or at least forced to cower in secret, then it will be on to the next “unapproved” section of society.

Beautifully put, PurpleThistle7 - after all we're constantly told that demonstrations are full of peaceful people with good intents, and why would the children be at any risk from that?

That will be the infidels then.

What "risk" would the children have been at? Are you saying those opposing the MP's visit were threatening to harm the children if they didn’t get their own way and the visit wasn’t cancelled?

The only risk the children were at is indoctrination. The bad apples in the teaching staff need chucking out. Schools promote British standards, yet this situation opposes them. If it wasn't so serious, it would be hilarious. Correction, I meant British values not standards.

If there are people in the community who might harm schoolchildren for receiving a visit from the local MP, I would expect people to see them as the villains and be up in arms about it. They are terrorists in waiting who pose a serious danger.

If people are actually totally chill about this as long as they can just restrict and punish the Jewish MP who sees two states as a better solution than destroying the Jewish state, it's pretty obvious what the true motivation is.

It is worrying if this extends to, say, a school visitor who just happens to be Jewish. For example a peripatetic music teacher with an identifiable Jewish surname.

It’s all so unacceptable but the prevailing wind seems to be “everyone look the other way”. Certainly a section of society has scored a blinder getting left-wing teachers/civil servants on-side.

In an Ideal world I would agree with you.

If this was a university visit or even a college visit I would agree with you.
As we would no longer talking about children and we expect adults (even young adults to be able to put there own risk assessments in place.

But we are talking about children, and we regularly protect them and restrict what they can do or see.

I have already posted that I agree that the organiser should be investigated and I would extend that out to any teacher that is going to protest this as well.

But my original point was aimed at those having a go at the head for doing his job correctly.

YABVU and ridiculous. The school was in a really difficult position and had to make the right call for its pupils.

This has been hyped up and inflamed by certain media and people to create headlines and division.

The MP had already had the visit rescheduled before this all kicked off in the press when presumably they can engage police, protesting groups etc while keeping their pupils safe.

I feel you are being deliberately facetious.

Would you send your unaccompanied 11 year old children into a heated protest?

Because that was the potential outcome.

The school is being investigated by Ofsted. The banning of the visitor met the criteria for racism and bullying.

this was hyped up and inflamed by certain staff at the school they were the ones creating the division, they were the ones being hateful and determined on causing a scene they were the ones causing an unsafe situation. They should be the ones banned from the school.

Very rarely do I agree with people getting sacked for principles, but In this case, I absolutely hope they do. I'm predicting nothing will happen though. It will be another case of ' lessons learned, no antisemitism found, look the other way everyone....'. The whole system as it stands is massively stacked in favour of a small section of society, whose rights trump everyone's else's.

@Omeompost covers who was causing the division. The people planning to protest.

Calling out antisemitism isn't ridiculous. Interesting choice of word from you.

So much misinformation in these posts.
You don't know the situation, you don't work at the school or with the MP.
It's things like this that can lead to terrible and shocking events like the sad death of Ruth Perry.
I wish people would use their critical reasoning skills before blindly making judgements on a scenario they know nothing about.