EDI prefects

[ChristinaXYZ]

A teacher friend has been explaining about the new EDI prefects in his school - where kids are taught often contested views on gender, race and other issues and then are expectsed to lead by example and cascade these contestsed views to the rest of the school. It is getting kids to indoctrinate kids. It is also quite cunning as it means the staff are not actually doing much teaching of poltical views, as it is coming from the kids many of whom given enough leeway will go further than the staff.

If you google EDI prefects you can see how many schools have them.

Whilst some will be quite innocently trying to promote a school free of bullying we all know what issues with the gender diversity can be in shcool and with race not eeveryone thigns racism is best solved by focusing on race all the time. So that is contestsed too. EDI is an industry and survives by group-think and having prefects heading this up in schools feels really wrong to me. Also group-think encourages more bullying not less - as with the recording of the girls being called disgusting by a teacher for having their own views on identity.

As with most EDI stuff it seems the EDI prefects are most prevalent in private schools (my friend teaches in a private school) but many state schools have them too. If you are concerned about gender teaching in your child's school as well as lessons it might be worth seeing what the prefects are expected to do too.

Yes, it's the same way it spreads on the workplace - people keen on "giving back", getting extra kudos or just being a part of a special community within their work join LGBT allies programmes and get indoctrinated into this stuff along with their LGB colleagues who know what it's like to be discriminated against themselves, and the key way for allies to help is to challenge wrongthink and be evangelical with colleagues at every opportunity.

Of course, they've been empowered by the trainers that the best way to be an ally is to not be a bystander and to publicly challenge people for expressing wrongthink, and so it quickly spreads through an organisation (whether a workplace, school or elsewhere) that no-one can get away with wrongthink and everyone else is forced to fall in line.

Give kids the extra incentive of "this will look great for your UCAS applications", plus the temptation of wielding power over other kids and playing teacher, and why would they turn it down? Prefects are drawn into this in the same way as adult allies at work are - with flattery and the promise of reverence and doing important work.

I loved being a prefect at school and having special privileges and feeling like an honorary teacher and guiding the younger kids - it's the exact same feeling you get when you're lecturing colleagues on how unenlightened they are - you feel so self-righteous and generous being able to impart the latest nugget of wisdom from Stonewall to all the wide-eyed heathens around you, with constant praise from leadership as to what an amazing job you're doing.