School administration threatens to have 8-year olds documented as racists

[Kyriakos]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-threatening-letter-parents-met-outrage.html

Children of 8 are 'racist' if they miss Islam trip: School's threatening letter to parents is met with outrage
Headmistress Lynn Small wrote to parents about multicultural school trip
Children will attend 'Explore Islam' workshop at Staffordshire University
'Racial Discrimination' would appear on permanent record if they didn't go
Parents at Littleton Green Community School in Huntington complained
Staffordshire County Council stepped in and head had to apologise

Parents were ordered to send their children to a workshop on Islam or have them labelled as racist for the rest of their school career.

They were sent a letter warning that the primary school pupils would have a ‘racial discrimination note’ put on their records if they did not go.

Families were told to pay £5 per child for the Explore Islam trip next Wednesday to Staffordshire University, which would involve Year 4 and Year 6 children being shown Islamic artefacts.

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The very friendly letter from the school Head:

I support this. 8-year old pupils should be labeled as racist in their school record, if their parents do not want them to learn about Islam. I mean that is part of school

'All absences on this day will be investigated for their credibility and will only be sanctioned with a GP sick note.'

Yesterday parents at Littleton Green Community School in Huntington, Staffordshire, said the threat to the pupils aged between eight and 11 was ‘ludicrous’. Gillian Claridge, 55, said: ‘How dare they threaten to brand the children racist at such a young age? It’s going to make them feel like little criminals.

Her Majesty's School

 

[Synobun]

I'm pretty sure you can't make field trips mandatory, especially when the parents have to pay. That kind of goes against the whole mantra of "school for all, even the poor". The management of this school needs to be fired immediately.

 

[bhsup]

I love how they think Islam is a race. From a school no less. Brilliant.

Newsflash, headmistress:

 

[Borachio]

Mrs Small's career ends today.

 

[Bugfatty300]

These workshops seem like the stuff that fundamentalist Christians in the US have been cramming into public education under the guise of "fairness" and "tolerance."

"Religious education" simply doesn't belong in a public school curriculum at all.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Hell no, they won't go!

"This is my choice, not hers, and she shouldn't have to pay for it."

Mum-of-four Tracy Ward added: "I was shocked by the letter. To be told my kids have got to attend this workshop is disgusting.

Her sister Donna, whose daughter also attends the school, said: "It's not our religion. We should have a right to stop our children going."

Another parent Gillian Claridge, 55, added: "To be told we had to pay for the trip as well was just a kick in the teeth.

She said: "We are a mainly Christian school, but we have to cover at least one other religion as part of the national curriculum.This visit is part of that.

"They would not be taking part in any religious practices. We have had similar workshops on a variety of religions in the past - including one on Islam with no problems at all and the children have absolutely loved it.

"We have pupils and teachers at the school who belong to the Islam faith and it is right for the children to understand and appreciate their faith as well as their own."

The school, which was told it "required improvement" in an Ofsted report earlier this year caters for 341 pupils aged between 3 and 11.

The school seems to have a real problem with parents having their children come down with mysterious illnesses on the days when such field trips were planned in the past.

But labeling the children racists when it is actually the parents who are the bigots is obviously going too far. I'm surprised that the school system doesn't realize this and have this instruction provided within the classroom, instead of using field trips, so the parents couldn't block their kids from being "reeducated" for their own good.

BTW this is a "replacement school". What does that term mean?

 

[Silurian]

Looks like the school should withdraw the threat or someone should call the police,

From UK Government

Headteachers or governing bodies may ask parents for a voluntary contribution towards the cost of:

•any activity that takes place during school hours
•school equipment
•general school funds
Children of parents who are unable, or unwilling, to contribute may not be discriminated against. However, if there are insufficient voluntary contributions made to cover the cost of the trip, or activity, and there is no alternative method to make up the shortfall, then the school should cancel the activity.

http://www.education.gov.uk/popularquestions/a005627/school-trips

 

[Formaldehyde]

They already did long ago. It is even clearly stated in the Daily Fail article.

 

[Silurian]

They already did long ago. It is even clearly stated in the Daily Fail article.

Where

 

[Borachio]

BTW this is a "replacement school". What does that term mean?

As far as I can tell it's part of terminology used in the Priority School Buildings Programme.

It seems to mean, literally, a school which has been built to replace a decrepit one.

 

[Kyriakos]

As far as I can tell it's part of terminology used in the Priority School Buildings Programme.

It seems to mean, literally, a school which has been built to replace a decrepit one.

Children of the age that school has are too young to examine theoretically the concept of irony, so they are being provided with an empirically observable example of it

 

[Formaldehyde]

Where

Right here:

However, the school backtracked just one day later after council officers intervened.

A revised letter sent out on Thursday apologised for ‘inaccuracies’ and told parents: ‘On reflection, disregard a section from the earlier letter.’

 

[JollyRoger]

You've got to shoot a black kid in a hoodie to be labeled not racist.

 

[Darkflight]

You've got to shoot a black kid in a hoodie to be labeled not racist.

I've never been labeled a racist and I never shot anyone. Is it cause I is norwegian?

 

[Quackers]

This is a masterful demonstration of a passive aggressive threat. The teacher has sabotaged her own objective of getting children to attend the workshop and alienated the parents. She won't last long in her job.

I'm glad someone in the council has the common sense to force the school into withdrawing the threat.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Children of the age that school has are too young to examine theoretically the concept of irony, so they are being provided with an empirically observable example of it

It is "ironic" that so many of their parents apparently have "decrepit" bigotry and xenophobia, which was even more common in the past than it is now?

This is a masterful demonstration of a passive aggressive threat. The teacher has sabotaged her own objective of getting children to attend the workshop and alienated the parents. She won't last long in her job.

I'm glad someone in the council has the common sense to force the school into withdrawing the threat.

I agree. She should have somehow targeted the parents who would have apparently pretended that their children were suddenly struck by illness on that particular day. After all, it isn't the fault of the kids that they are being brought up in an environment where prejudices continue to be reinforced instead of eliminated.

 

[Kyriakos]

I've never been labeled a racist and I never shot anyone. Is it cause I is norwegian?

 

[Quackers]

I agree. She should have somehow targeted the parents who would have apparently pretended that their children were suddenly struck by illness on that particular day. After all, it isn't the fault of the kids that they are being brought up in an environment where prejudices continue to be reinforced instead of eliminated.

You are quick to target the parents but where is your evidence that the parents would have pretended their child was ill? Anyway, it would be a legitimate protest against the outrageous threat used in the letter.

 

[JollyRoger]

Who really asks to see grade schools records later in life except for birthers?

 

[Angst]

Omg the comic sans.