Teachers ordered to avoid ‘biased’ views of BLM and Stonewall

[McDuffy]

In the Times today, article is mainly on BLM and Churchill but good to see more coverage;

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a3c27a26-8f67-11ec-8d28-50e05b644342?shareToken=d1d558ba721f891126535db0ba4d3095

Teachers must avoid using material from campaigning organisations such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Stonewall that may have “partisan political views”, government guidance on impartiality states.

Schools are already required to teach in an impartial way but new guidance from the Department for Education (DfE) advises teachers on how to “tackle sensitive issues in a politically impartial way”.

The great British menu in.....Britain....!!!

Shocking.

If this is a new thing and the organisations mentioned will be kept out of schools due to it then good news

The difficulty is the reasons that exclusions aren't spread evenly across all groups in the school aren't particularly straightforward.

It's not, as people often seem to imagine, that the people in charge are just giving more or more serious punishments to kids they have some kind of racial animosity towards.

Schools are not always - usually aren't - in a position to affect the things that make for different outcomes among different demographic categories. The approach that some school have taken of simply not having exclusions (or whatever tool they are using) because it's not spread out equally across demographics has some pretty poor outcomes too.

This is a big part of the problem with groups like BLM - they push these very simplistic solutions that aren't solutions at all - stuff like defund the police - which ultimately are the worst for the people they are supposed to be helping.

OnceuponaRainbow18 · 17/02/2022 14:27
@JoAnnewithanE

Because everything is white centric, the pics around our school, on the school website, the curriculum, the lunch menu, black kids
Are 7Xs more likely to be suspended or excluded in my school.
That’s a few reasons why

Sorry to derail, but have you put up some pictures of great African art like the bronze sculptures, which took not only great artistry but advanced technical knowledge? And examples of the influence of African art on the West e.g Picasso?

Or put up pictures of the kids that are actually in the school. That would mean it would reflect all the kids there. It could be a pretty fun project for an art class.

The menu thing seems to undermine the whole complaint though, as if the kids who aren't white aren't actually British.

You know, I’m sure someone was flinging around accusations of this sub-forum being riddled with racism the other day. 🤔

How strange this thread should be excavated during the Night Watch for @OnceuponaRainbow18 to be subjected to multipost racist nonsense 🤨

Have you seen any progress/change with your school? I hope you’re able to enjoy the summer & take some time to yourself to recharge - burnout is so very real. I wondered if you might be able to use the BLACHIR Report (especially Section 3 on Children & Young People) to push for change in the school - & support from external bodies as per its recommendations. That way it stops being “just you”, as it were?