Schools are cesspits, I finished high school relatively recently, kids were on phones constantly, throwing food at teachers whenever they turned away, shouting constantly, throwing calculators, pens at each other, picking on anyone visibly different whether it was a disability like autism, being visibly gay, or even a different skin colour, and this school was rated ‘Outstanding’ by ofsted multiple times in a row, and still is, I dread to think what it’s like now
Just goes to show how many parents are spouting off racist rhetoric at home. Crazy to think there’s kids in year 1 & 2 being chucked out for racism, I look at my niece and nephew who have just gone into those year groups and I can’t imagine them ever coming with anything hateful.
Is anyone else over this decade? I feel like everything is getting worse. Like the path we’re following is gearing up towards something catastrophic.
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That’s what happens when you embolden bigotry. I can’t see why anyone is surprised at this.
There appears to have been a significant increase in bigotry of various kinds in recent years, and it’s distressing but not surprising that kids are picking it up by osmosis.
Let’s look at this from another perspective. What are the schools defining as racism?
I’m 100% not saying that there isn’t a problem with emboldened racists, no doubt passing that into their kids.
But a friend’s child (diagnosed autistic) was excluded for 2 days after suggesting that a teachers hair looked like black sheep’s wool. The teacher’s hair was black and curly. She also happened to be Black. It was perceived as being racist because of the use of the wod ‘black’ sheep, rather than just sheep on its own.
Racism is learned behaviour, unfortunately these kids have been indoctrinated by their stupid (Probably Reform supporting) parents.
10 year black lad in my kids school got suspended for constantly saying N***a.
In my experience of Primary schools, I found that kids are generally oblivious to the notion of race, if left to themselves (although the more their families push religion on them, the more they will project in-group superiority – not exactly race, but often ethno / cultural). They dont really start seeing colour until they encounter social justice drives at school (Floyd and Arday adulation; Black History Month, etc) – that’s usually the point at which they start echoing race-based antagonism. And we are only going to see more social justice in the curriculum.
Not sure what sending kids home, presumably to the parents from whom they picked up that language, is supposed to achieve.
Indeed I can imagine problem kids using this as a way to get themselves sent home because they don’t want to do double maths this afternoon or whatever.
Unfortunately a few primary school aged kids in my family have been the victims of this (classmates being racist towards them, to be clear). It’s very sad on a few levels because racism from kids this young is 100% coming from the parents and you just wonder what kind of hateful attitudes they’re picking up from their home environments, it’s a curse for the kids doing it too.
Also for their victims — every person of colour remembers the first time they experience racism, and it’s tragic that it’s happening to them this young.
Are we sure they dont have a different definition of “racism”
So instead of being taught that its wrong and why its wrong, they simply send them home where they are most likely going to get told they did the right thing or some shit. This country is a fucking joke.
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This seems like a cultural problem. Like yeah primary schools are intense but the ones ive seen outside the UK seem waaaaay less problematic
Speaking as a teacher of ten years.
When I first started, bigotry from the students was nigh unheard of. Whenever a student DID drop a slur, either they genuinely didn’t know what it meant, or it was so shocking that emergency assemblies had to be held. Even the more “laddish” boys were repulsed if one of them said anything homophobic or transphobic.
Ten years later, things have changed massively. Suspensions for bigotry against staff and students are a daily occurence, and more often than not the parents will complain that their kids are being sanctioned for “hurty words that don’t hurt nobody”.
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Schools are cesspits, I finished high school relatively recently, kids were on phones constantly, throwing food at teachers whenever they turned away, shouting constantly, throwing calculators, pens at each other, picking on anyone visibly different whether it was a disability like autism, being visibly gay, or even a different skin colour, and this school was rated ‘Outstanding’ by ofsted multiple times in a row, and still is, I dread to think what it’s like now
Just goes to show how many parents are spouting off racist rhetoric at home. Crazy to think there’s kids in year 1 & 2 being chucked out for racism, I look at my niece and nephew who have just gone into those year groups and I can’t imagine them ever coming with anything hateful.
Is anyone else over this decade? I feel like everything is getting worse. Like the path we’re following is gearing up towards something catastrophic.
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That’s what happens when you embolden bigotry. I can’t see why anyone is surprised at this.
There appears to have been a significant increase in bigotry of various kinds in recent years, and it’s distressing but not surprising that kids are picking it up by osmosis.
Let’s look at this from another perspective. What are the schools defining as racism?
I’m 100% not saying that there isn’t a problem with emboldened racists, no doubt passing that into their kids.
But a friend’s child (diagnosed autistic) was excluded for 2 days after suggesting that a teachers hair looked like black sheep’s wool. The teacher’s hair was black and curly. She also happened to be Black. It was perceived as being racist because of the use of the wod ‘black’ sheep, rather than just sheep on its own.
Racism is learned behaviour, unfortunately these kids have been indoctrinated by their stupid (Probably Reform supporting) parents.
10 year black lad in my kids school got suspended for constantly saying N***a.
In my experience of Primary schools, I found that kids are generally oblivious to the notion of race, if left to themselves (although the more their families push religion on them, the more they will project in-group superiority – not exactly race, but often ethno / cultural). They dont really start seeing colour until they encounter social justice drives at school (Floyd and Arday adulation; Black History Month, etc) – that’s usually the point at which they start echoing race-based antagonism. And we are only going to see more social justice in the curriculum.
Not sure what sending kids home, presumably to the parents from whom they picked up that language, is supposed to achieve.
Indeed I can imagine problem kids using this as a way to get themselves sent home because they don’t want to do double maths this afternoon or whatever.
Unfortunately a few primary school aged kids in my family have been the victims of this (classmates being racist towards them, to be clear). It’s very sad on a few levels because racism from kids this young is 100% coming from the parents and you just wonder what kind of hateful attitudes they’re picking up from their home environments, it’s a curse for the kids doing it too.
Also for their victims — every person of colour remembers the first time they experience racism, and it’s tragic that it’s happening to them this young.
Are we sure they dont have a different definition of “racism”
So instead of being taught that its wrong and why its wrong, they simply send them home where they are most likely going to get told they did the right thing or some shit. This country is a fucking joke.
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This seems like a cultural problem. Like yeah primary schools are intense but the ones ive seen outside the UK seem waaaaay less problematic
Speaking as a teacher of ten years.
When I first started, bigotry from the students was nigh unheard of. Whenever a student DID drop a slur, either they genuinely didn’t know what it meant, or it was so shocking that emergency assemblies had to be held. Even the more “laddish” boys were repulsed if one of them said anything homophobic or transphobic.
Ten years later, things have changed massively. Suspensions for bigotry against staff and students are a daily occurence, and more often than not the parents will complain that their kids are being sanctioned for “hurty words that don’t hurt nobody”.