The Hand that Rocks the Cradle - Labour Plans “diversities of our society” Curriculum Change

Labour Education Secretary , Bridget Phillipson , thinks the British Curriculum for schools is too “mono-cultural” and we should teach kids about the “diversities of our society” and help kids “appreciate the diversity” of Britain because actual British history is too White oriented and full of conquest.

The article published today from former Conservative government Senior Special Adviser James Price explains more about this dangerous move to further dumb down our kids and denigrate our Country.

We must resist this, and that starts by calling it what it is: evil.

You may think this is hyperbole, trotted out after too much festive frivolity. But allow me to make my case, and to call for you to join me on the barricades.

The most obvious and egregious front of Phillipson’s war is her “review” of Britain’s curriculum. The terms of reference for the Department for Education’s review will explicitly call for a curriculum that reflects the “diversities of our society” and help produce young people who “appreciate the diversity” of Britain. In other words, old dead boring white men will be replaced with ahistorical teachings that are meant to align young people with the false but modish trends that have already had too much power in Britain today.

Just as the tide of woke is receding in its place of birth, the USA, British kids will be forced to lap up more of it here.

Beyond the curriculum “review” (as if we don’t already know exactly what nonsense it will recommend), Phillipson is determined to attack our education system on multiple other fronts.

There are the disgraceful punitive attacks on those who have scrimped and saved to send their child to a private school, whose efforts are punished with a new tax. We know that this will disproportionately hurt children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities whilst barely affecting Eton. Bridget Phillipson doesn’t care.

Or the scrapping of funding for the Latin GCSE in state schools midway through a year, hurting those few kids who dared to think they were allowed to rise above their station (and messing up their A-level chances). Bridget Phillipson doesn’t care.

Nor the removal of freedom for academies in how they teach, leading to greater parental choice and better results. Bridget Phillipson doesn’t care.

Nor the cancelling of the Free Speech Act that would help students and scholars alike at British universities have redress against the cloying cancel culture that is ruining higher education. Bridget Phillipson doesn’t care about that either.
thecritic.co.uk...

The Police Turned Up In A Pub To Vet The Conversation.

a reply to: gortex

They're #ing idiots.
This insanity has to stop.....NOW.

No need to teach kids about the diversity, they can see it walking down any high street in the country. A policy that is designed to align those "diverse" people with the Labour vote.

But, diversity is your strength!

Will the people ever wake up to the gaslighting?

a reply to: stosh64

Will the people ever wake up to the gaslighting?

I think they have started mate , membership of our only viable opposition party Reform UK is steadily rising and public opinion of the government rapidly falling , a recent poll showed 61% of respondents were unhappy with this government.

It's going to be a long slow road but we are getting there , a statistical research company says growing polling numbers suggest Reform could form the next government.

With 28pc of the public's vote, just 6pc more than their current support, Reform would become the largest party in parliament with just under 200 seats. In this scenario, Reform could be governing in a coalition with the Conservatives, likely with Nigel Farage as Prime Minister and Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch as a deputy Prime Minister.

If their vote share increases to 31pc, Reform would get an overall Commons majority. In this case, Reform could govern on their own and Nigel Farage would be Prime Minister and able to choose his cabinet freely. This would represent an exceptional scenario, as it would be the first time in over a century when neither of the two British mainstream parties, Labour or the Conservatives, would be in power.
www.electoralcalculus.co.uk...

a reply to: Freeborn

This insanity has to stop.....NOW.

Vote Reform in this years Local Elections and start the ball rolling , use your voice.

Reform membership now stands at 161,522.

a reply to: gortex

I voted Reform at the last General Election.
Unless there is an outstanding local independent candidate I will in most likelihood be doing so again at the local elections.

I've never been a member of a political party and never will. I see most party members blindly following the party line and the party becomes more important than the actual policies.....one of the biggest problems in my opinion with our party political system.
I vote for the candidate that most represents my opinions and who hopefully has at least a modicum of integrity.

That's 2 new petitions in your OP
Mischevious Rainbows
Jane

a reply to: gortex

Tax on private schools.

I'll ask again.......is home schooling NOT an option in UK?

a reply to: Cvastar

I'll ask again.......is home schooling NOT an option in UK?

Is home schooling up to the standard of Private Education , I'd say it isn't nor is it up to State school education unless the parent is qualified , kids also miss out on life lessons and social interaction when home schooled.

This tax is driven by ideology not what is best for the child.

a reply to: Cvastar

Yes it is, and growing.

In 2023, it was estimated that between 125,000 and 180,000 children were homeschooled in the UK, a number that is rising significantly each year. In the UK, homeschooling is gaining momentum and popularity amongst families as homeschooled students demonstrate its success, both academically and socially.

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Rainbows
Jane

a reply to: gortex

Is home schooling up to the standard of Private Education , I'd say it isn't nor is it up to State school education unless the parent is qualified , kids also miss out on life lessons and social interaction when home schooled.

Not quite true Gortex. I know many families (and growing year on year) who home school their children. I know many of these children too. They are all kind, curteous, respectful, switched on, smart, well adjusted and bright children. They give me hope for our future.
Most are supported with formal classes by private tutors. Most also experience every day 'life challenges', which makes them more emotionally mature to deal with them. There's a massive support network for parents and children being home schooled by professionals and teachers alike.
Rainbows
Jane

a reply to: gortex

You know, I read a lot of you UK folks post about stuff going on there, and some of it is pretty disturbing (much like here in the US). This one is particularly disturbing...police coming into public gathering places like pubs and controlling what people can talk about. It's not necessarily their overt actions, but just the simple fact they show up to scare people into not being able to speak freely.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

It's a new warped 'law' thing our current vomitment has introduced under their employment act or some such. If staff at a pub feel they personally are 'offended' by something a patron says, or overhears a patron saying something they don't like, they can report it to the landlord and said landlord has to take action, otherwise, wait for it..... the employee can sue him for damages!!! So, I have heard landlords are jumping this new 'law' by calling the police to deal with it. In this case though, it was a group of other people in the next booth that reported the 6-8 men who were talking about Trump (in general) and 9/11.
We've gone to hell in a handbasket as you good folks over the Pond call it.
Rainbows
Jane

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

We're at a point now where thoughts written or spoken can land you in court , I guy was arrester for praying in his head last year although the case was thrown out that it happened at all in a "free society" like Britain is chilling , I forecast a Summer of discontent as this governments swallows come home to roost.

Lord Michael Ashcroft's updated biography on Starmer "Red Knight" in which a few cats should be let out of bags is due this Spring , that should be interesting.

You're all a bit late, the teachers (or should I say some teachers and some schools) have been teaching the children from over 5 years ago. Example:- At my granddaughters school, 5 years ago, the stopped teaching any Christian based lessons but were given homework and class room tasks to read up and learn about the 5 Pillars of Islam. Now go figure.

originally posted by: angelchemuel
a reply to: Cvastar

Yes it is, and growing.

In 2023, it was estimated that between 125,000 and 180,000 children were homeschooled in the UK, a number that is rising significantly each year. In the UK, homeschooling is gaining momentum and popularity amongst families as homeschooled students demonstrate its success, both academically and socially.

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Link to Government website
Rainbows
Jane

Thanks for that. I did a bit of research and found that "home education", what it's called in UK, is quite the up and coming thing in UK. It's the future of primary education in the US and Is growing quite rapidly as the public schools systems degenerate into "schools to prisons" pipelines with heavy handed Marxist indoctrination and forced castration of kids.

a reply to: gortex

Well, Mr. Gortex, you might just want to do a bit more research on those points.

Home education has grown up as it were in recent years. The "online resources" are ever bit as good and in some cases better than what's available in the State schools; as well, private tutoring has become quite the thing.

In the US, my friends have joined "home education (schooling) "pods" or groups wherein parents with particular skills such as maths, English, Science (real, not political-otherwise known as the "hard" sciences such as chemistry, biology, etc.), and the like, teach or "tutor" the kids in their homes once or twice a week. The pods give the kids exposure to a variety of subjects with "expert" teachers in a variety of settings and with "class mates". As well, the "pods" provide social interactions for the kids with kids their own age. And there's "home education" sports leagues where the kids can learn and participate in team sports.

What I'm really saying is that as the US public school system has collapsed, the "Home Schooling/Education" programs have evolved and adopted to better meet the needs and the growing demands for better ways to educate.

Give it a look........you might find your skills, intellect and education are in demand as a tutor! And YES, skills learning is available also! I have two grandsons in the home education programs, one to be a Welder and one to be an Electrician!. And both programs include "On the Job" training for real life experience!

a reply to: gortex
Not related to the labour shcool indoctrination program,but I just read that 20 labour councilors have today resigned en masse in Broxtowe over their disgust at the current leadership-
uk.news.yahoo.com...

Hopefully a load of schools will go on strike once they see the new cirriculum changes which are about to be forced upon them.

a reply to: onestonemonkey

Wow , thanks for the link mate.

Council leader Milan Radulovic had been a party member for 42 years before he walked away from Labour on Thursday.

"I cannot support and will not support another centrist government intent on destroying local democracy and dictating national policy from a high pedestal," he said.

"I believe the concentration of power in the hands of fewer people and the abolition of local democracy through the current proposals of super councils is nothing short of a dictatorship, where local elected members, local people, local residents will have no say over the type and level of service provided in their area," he said.

Ouch , that's gotta hurt.

Dictatorship is a fair description of this government I think , well a wannabe dictatorship at least.