From time to time there are complaints by parents that British State schools are departing from the path of education and instead are indulging in Left wing indoctrination. We’ve seen schools relentlessly pushing the political doctrine of multiculturalism and engaging in some appalling acts of pro-Islam propaganda. Sometimes these acts of political indoctrination are done with the full knowledge, if not with the explicit consent, of parents, but there are other instances where the teachers seem to have gone out of their way to keep parents in the dark about what is going on within the school.
The arrogance and the haughty ‘we know best’ attitude of some teachers and school Senior Management Teams, sometimes beggars belief. In the case below this arrogance is shown by a school’s willingness to classify any child who steps outside the Leftist indoctrination as an ‘extremist’ and are quite willing to use the organs of the state to assist in their propagandising.
According to the Daily Express newspaper in the United Kingdom (see links below), a school in Southampton on Britain’s south coast has twice been caught up in scandal by indulging in some quite worryingly arrogant political indoctrination. Wildern School held a mock general election in which children were forbidden, yes forbidden by teachers from casting their vote for the United Kingdom Independence Party. In another incident the school also called in anti-terror police when they found a pupil had accessed the UKIP website on a school computer. It does make one wonder just what else is going on at this school and what other political and pro-Islam indoctrination is going on there? The parents, and the rest of us I might add, deserve to be told.
This case is yet more evidence, to add to the growing pile, of a serious problem in British schools with political, pro-multiculti and pro-Islam indoctrination. This Wildern School case is just one among many where schools have gone against parents wishes and set work that is either of an overtly Left wing nature or astonishingly pro-Islam. Schools in the British Isles have sent their children on mosque visits, set pro-Islam homework and invited Islamic evangelists into schools, in some cases hiding these activities from parents or defying parents when they object. This is a situation that urgently needs to change. Unfortunately such change cannot be left to the government or the teaching profession themselves as these entities are part of the problem. Only parents can help make this change.
It’s vital that parents of school age children in the UK become ‘active parents’, by which I mean not trusting the schools to do the best for their children or have their children’s best interests at heart. By sitting back and coasting parents are leaving the way clear for schools to pump their children’s heads full of all sorts of guff. This guff can range from the highly dangerous, such as teaching children the lie that ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ or stuff that parents may object to on political or moral grounds for example teachers telling four year olds that transsexualism is cool. It’s plain to many parents who are concerned about the levels of propaganda going on in schools that the teaching profession is no longer to be trusted as much as they once were.
We as parents need to be more pro-active when dealing with schools, we need to be informed of our rights, such as the right to withdraw our children from ALL religious education and we need to protest when schools bring inappropriate visitors or educational materials into the school. If the bulk of parents continue to be inactive then the schools will have free reign to pump what ever Leftist or pro-Islam stuff they like into our children’s heads. Such a situation would be to me and many other parents, absolutely unacceptable.
We must not only cease to trust our children’s teachers but also let these teachers know that we don’t trust them. British parents need to learn to be much more of a pain in the arse to teachers and make those who teach their children more accountable to parents. At the moment the teaching profession is not accountable to parents and in some cases are highly dismissive of parental wishes and parental concerns. The only way that situation will change is for parents to become more involved in their children’s education and that means scrutinising curricula and subject teaching guides and monitoring homework. It can even mean temporarily withdrawing your child, even at risk of a fine, from the sort of lessons and activities that give you concern.
If we make the mistake of again leaving education to the teaching profession then we will have yet another lost and dumbed down generation of young people who know few hard and useful facts to build future success on, but who know an awful lot about the Left’s pet subjects such as racism, Islamophobia, transgenderism etc. Teachers are public servants and should start to serve us the public and not use their time, which we’ve paid for through our taxes, to fill our children’s head with dangerous rubbish or bully children into thinking that there is only one way of politics or one way of looking at life.
As teachers cannot be trusted with our children, it’s now time for parents to take control. The teachers have slipped all too easily into being indoctrinators as opposed to educators, and a clean out of the Augean Stables that is British education is long overdue.
Links
Daily Express articles on anti-UKIP propaganda in Wildern School, Southampton
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/647539/Ukip-UK-Independence-Party-school-police-called-website
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