An English boarding school has come under fire for asking pupils to wear a “yellow badge” to show they are exempt from using a face mask. The Telegraph has more.
Farringtons School in Kent, which charges £34,050 per year for boarders, has made it compulsory for children to wear face masks in classrooms and corridors following a rise in cases of COVID-19.
In a letter to parents, David Jackson, the school’s headmaster, said that pupils who are exempt from wearing masks “should wear a yellow badge to indicate this”.
The move has been criticised by family groups, who say it is “deeply inappropriate” given the “historic connotations” with yellow badges.
Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe were forced to wear a yellow star so they could be easily marked out for segregation and discrimination.
Molly Kingsley, co-founder of parent campaign group UsForThem, said: “Asking children to wear some form of exemption marker has been quite common in schools and unbelievably this specific example of asking them to wear a yellow badge is not in isolation.
“It should not need explaining why this is a deeply inappropriate thing to ask a child to do. This has historic connotations which are deeply uncomfortable for many people.”
She added that children who are medically exempt from face masks may already be vulnerable, and asking them to wear a yellow badge will only serve to “stigmatise” them even more.
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History is evidently not the headmaster’s strong subject.
Who in the hell comes up with this stuff? This is Naxi Germany! I should have thought you Brits had enough of that. I am certain your parents did.
How do idiots like this become headmasters? Perhaps he/she should wear a yellow badge with the words DUMM KOPF written across it.
Words cannot express— I cannot believe the utter insensitivity of the headteacher. Maybe s/he is one of the post war, ignorant ones who regard Churchill as a warmonger, the war as an irrelevance to modern life and loves Extinction Rebellion and BLM. Whoever it is should be sacked asap. The child’s status should not be questioned. What are they doing insisting on masks in school, anyway? Do they not know they are worse than useless (Ignorance again – that head has a lot of it)
Herr David Jackson.
Possibly an avid reader of “Mein Kampf”.
The Unsceptical find parallels between Nazi Germany and our current regimes the most upsetting commentary of all. Too close to the truth, perhaps?
Surely, not wearing a mask would be the most obvious sign?!
Exactly. That’s what I discussed with my wife and teenage son. School has mandated masks again. Son “Exempt”. School expects Lanyard. Me “FFS not wearing a mask is the clue” 🤬 Clown World.
Well if I were paying for my child to attend that school I would now be looking for an alternative.
Here we go again. Why does the human race never learn?
We’ve fallen into a very deep and dark hole with no means of escape.
This appalling spectacle is reult.
Unbelievable!
Headmaster is either incredibly ignorant, or a psychopath.
My money is on both of the above. The real villains in this are the school Governors
Well, what do you expect when you lash out a measly 34K p.a. to buy a “better” education?
Not for much longer, though. Come the 4th Industrial Revolution all our children will be homeschool using AI and an updated version of Bill Gates’ disastrous Common Core bulk brainwasher.
In a gig economy with hardly any jobs, our offspring will be placed on notional “career pathways” and milked 24/7 for their data so hedge fund investors can gamble on their progress.
And you thought comprehensives were bad!
https://wrenchinthegears.com/2020/09/22/blockchain-education-a-ticket-to-digital-serfdom/
(Bet they don’t teach this stuff at Farringtons!).
1) Do they have any science teachers in this school? 2) Do they have any history teachers in this school and 3) Doesn’t lack of a mask enough of an indication of an exemption? Two years nearly and we are still facing the same utter nonsense.
Recognize this?
And very soon afterward…Lest ye forget!
They test for the flu since they’ve never isolated Covid-19. Which makes me wonder how they can tell there is a delta variant. They never isolated the virus but they use a test to show the damage of a solution does on monkey kidney cells then show the cellular debris as proof of the virus. So, they can use this method to claim an UNENDING! amount of variants. A lot of cancers and “viruses” are probably just different forms of parasites. Since the tests can’t differentiate between cold and flu and covid then doesn’t that mean ivermectin cures both the cold and the flu? Welcome to “they’ve been lying to us our entire lives about everything”. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Yellow badges. How original!
Luckily you don’t have to pay for a yellow badge at our (state) college, they’re free! Although the school nurse sent an email saying that, shockingly, some of the students who applied for one were not actually exempt. Otherwise, students are expected to wear a mask all day, although they may be allowed to take them off in lesson if the teacher says so. They have even roped in teachers to police public areas at lunchtime (presumably to insist the kids put their mask on in between bites)
Feel free to write! https://www.farringtons.org.uk/contact
“Farringtons School in Chislehurst slammed after insisting mask exempt children wear badges likened to yellow ‘Nazi stars’ worn by Jews”
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/bexley-and-bromley/news/school-asks-mask-exempt-pupils-to-wear-badges-likened-to-na-257973/
“the school says it was selected after consulting the government website for advice and has insisted no offence was intended and is “horrified” such comparisons have been made.”
-they must be a bit thick at that school then.
So when they had a meeting to discuss this (which they presumably will have done), did it not occur to anybody that this comparison would be made? As you say, they must be a bit thick!
The Head Teacher has got to be a secret antivaxxer – just to see how many sheep will swallow even this, .. words fail me.
There can be no other credible explanation.
I know we are in Clown World/down the rabbit hole … but Yellow badges FFS!
Lol.
Kudos to the Head.
Alternatively I think I may actually be dead and have arrived in Hell.
I truly didn’t know the devil admired a sense of humour.
Well, I wait by the riverbank…
So the unvaccinated are going to infect the vaccinated who are already infected becasue the vaccine cant prevent transmission or infection i dont understand !!
You’ve made the mistake of trying to apply logic to a completely illogical situation!
obvious i know but WHY ARE THEY WEARING MASKS .It snot a legal requirement and in fact theres more chance of it becoming illegal as time moves on
I’ve just seen this today and I’m horrified. I was a pupil at this school from the age of 5-18 yrs old. I left in year 2008 and am still local to the area. The irony is I went on to study history (my specialist subject being genocide) at Uni primarily because I was so horrified and became very interested in what we learnt about nazi Germany at Farringtons thanks to a brilliant history teacher. Obviously it’s a long time since I’ve been there and teachers have changed but I can’t believe that a school that taught me about the horrors of the past chose a yellow badge to discriminate against students. The whole idea of identifying certain students is terrible but also it’s just plain stupid choosing a yellow badge. It was a nice school, very inclusive, very sensitive to the pupils (probably too soft on us if anything). I always felt glad I went there it was a good experience for me and now I feel so embarrassed and angry and I will be letting them know my thoughts. Like everyone is saying here surely a child not wearing a mask shows they are exempt…
More to the point, why are people paying £34,000 a year to have their children educated by the poorly educated
The educated in falsehoods.
This is so horrible in so many aspects I cannot even formulate a response. The parents fail to see a problem as well?
Are these kids being taught biology by someone who thinks a piece of cloth protects against a virus? Do their history teachers not understand the implications of the divisive badging?
Parents paying the school’s rather high fees are not getting good value for money.
It’s doublethink in action. I am sure that the biology teachers are very good at biology, and the history teachers very good at history. What they are not good at is applying their knowledge to real world situations especially in cases where their knowledge is telling them that they are right and the majority/accepted narrative wrong. Lack of courage to go against the herd. You could argue that their intelligence is functionally useless if they are unable to apply it when it matters.
Their children don’t need to be educated – you just pay the fees and the school will find them a good career, or Mummy and Daddy will have the connections. It’s just expensive child care, where the parents hope they don’t come away with a drug habit or a criminal record.
We are approaching ‘who will rid me of th(ese)is turbulent priest(s)’ advocating useless vaccines and unscientific NPIs and poisonous ‘standards of care’ (Remdesivir a.k.a. “RUN” death is near).
At some point we the people will recognise what has been done to them and demand accountability.
I can’t see any reason for a badge when the kid will not be wearing a face covering. It should be voluntary and not encouraged anyway. Pandemic’s over. Let it go.
Did the “pandemic” ever start?
Dunno. But it may never end.
Once they changed the definition they can have several every year.
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Private schools are breeding grounds for fascists! Who knew? but …
while septic heads are full of head chaff, the police state is consolidating: https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1463282056490852357
Plenty of state schools round my way insisting on masks, distancing and bullying kids into getting tested and vaxxed
agreed, to be fair I didn’t claim exclusivity but I do claim primacy
Designed for your pals at XR and IB.
… plus other Soros pet projects like Antifa, BLM & Occupy
House! First anti-Semitic scumbag comment
“The move has been criticised by family groups, who say it is “deeply inappropriate” given the “historic connotations” with yellow badges.”
I think it’s highly appropriate.
Just what I was going to post.
Never forget: the German holocaust (defined as mass murder of captives) started with those who were classified by medics as physically or medically disabled.
Let’s be clear: the medics murdered thousands of their patients, and then after they achieved high success rates the SS then came for the Jews, Gypsies, gays, etc. some time later.
In 2021 what symbol resisters wear when we choose to wear one (not when we are forced to) is a tactical matter only.
Referencing the German camps, and German badges-on-clothes policy generally, seems the obvious thing to do. It should not be done lightly, but it isn’t being done lightly, so that’s not a problem.
In other news: the general strike in Martinique is showing the way forward. The strike is
against the compulsory vaccination of health workers for free testing for infection with a pesticide used in banana plantations, chlordecone, a toxin that has caused high rates of prostate cancer and premature births against high fuel prices People in Guadeloupe aren’t far behind.
The people of Martinique sound very sussed about the pharma-state, and they are doing something about it. They put the people of Britain to shame. But it isn’t too late. I… Read more »