Stuart Waiton has written a troubling piece in the Spectator about woke indoctrination in Scottish schools. Here’s an excerpt:
Nicola Sturgeon may be on her way out – but after 16 years of SNP rule, Scottish schools are still places of indoctrination. This may sound like a hyperbolic thing to say, but that’s the only conclusion you can draw when you look at what Scottish educators and the Scottish Government are saying themselves.
Take the General Teaching Council for Scotland’s Standard for Headship, which sets out the professional framework for what a headteacher, teachers and schools should be all about.
You would expect such a document to be all about imparting knowledge and aspiring to teach every child as much as possible. Instead, it is a horrifying mix of therapeutic new-speak that stresses the need for teachers and headteachers to focus on the matter of social justice.
In the 16-page Standard for Headship report ‘social justice’ is mentioned seven times. We are informed, for example, that the very culture of Scotland is “based on social justice”, that we now have “professional values of social justice”, and that social justice is about a commitment to “sustainable policies and practices in relation to protected characteristics…. and intersectionality”.
The terms sustainable or sustainability appear 23 times in the document. This includes what some would see as a Malthusian demand for “respect for our natural world and its limited resources” as well as a call for “learning for sustainability”, whatever that means.
According to Waiton, pernicious and discredited ideas like Critical Race Theory are imposed upon teachers.
As one educational expert told me, if student teachers, “don’t subscribe to the particular interpretation of ‘social justice’ that is currently in vogue, then they won’t achieve registration for the General Teaching Council.”
Elsewhere the Scottish Government and Education Scotland have worked to ensure that teachers are “Embedding race equality in school”. This is not simply about treating people equally, quite the reverse in fact. Rather it is about the promotion of Critical Race Theory and the divisive and self-loathing idea of ‘white privilege’, which is endorsed by Education Scotland.
Furthermore, the dangerous and radical trans ideology that was the undoing of Sturgeon is still rampant in the school system.
Perhaps worst of all is the Supporting Transgender Pupils in Schools guidance document, a policy that would fit comfortably on the shelves of the most extreme trans activist.
Schools, for example, have to ensure that children, “demonstrate an understanding of diversity in sexuality and gender identity”. From age 12 children can self-identify and receive support and validation from schools. The school will develop a “support plan for the transgender young person”, thus creating a “safe space for transgender young people to be themselves and have their identities respected”.
If parents don’t support this development it is implied that they are a wellbeing concern. But then, many parents will not even know that this gender fluid ideology is being adopted or that their child is being transitioned with the help of the school as, “it is best to not share information with parents or carers without considering and respecting the young person’s views”.
Worth reading in full.
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“Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man.”
Modern education is all about indoctrination and effectively embedding the future dystopia.
This won’t end well.
Indeed. That is one thing that St. Ignatius of Loyola and Vladimir Lenin both could agree upon. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
It is happening all over the western world, but most certainly in Scotland. Teaching children “what to think” rather “how to think” is part of the “indoctrination” that you speak of.—– Imagine if a 13 year old were to ask a question in school like “How much CO2 is in the atmosphere, and how much of it comes from human activity and what evidence is there that it is causing or will cause dangerous changes to the climate”?———————- First of all the teacher would be totally aghast, and then almost certainly not be able to properly answer that question. The teacher would resort to the Argument from Authority, and likely claim that “All scientists say it is true and therefore who are we to disagree”? ——-So, kids are to be instructed in “Official Science” rather than “Science”.——- And ofcourse no 13-year-old would have the wherewithal to challenge that teacher with “Please Miss, but science is not decided by a show of hands from government funded data adjusters” or all hell would break loose. The fact that Liberal progressives attempt to indoctrinate does not surprise me, but what does surprise me is that parents do not kick up a stink on all manner of woke issues being passed off as education and ultimate truth.
Well I’m sure they’ll be embracing the nonsensical censorship of kids’ favourite books in Scottish schools, as per the Roald Dahl travesty. I hadn’t given much thought to whether the books will continue to be translated into foreign languages using the new woketard version or if countries outside of the UK will be up in arms about all of these changes. This Dutch publisher is none too happy and even Salman Rushdie has complained;
”British publisher Puffin has made the changes so that “everyone can enjoy Dahl’s books.” For example, the character Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is no longer called “fat” but “huge,” the Oompa Loompas in the same book are not “little men” but “little people,” and in the book The Creeps, the main female character is no longer describes as “ugly.”
The director of De Fontein admits in Trouw that there are clichés and exaggerations in Dahl’s books. “But that’s where his humor lies. Children recognize them, and they make children think about right and wrong. That also makes them timeless. If you take all that away, it loses its power.”
https://nltimes.nl/2023/02/19/dutch-publisher-critical-altered-passages-roald-dahl-books-said-offensive
the character Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is no longer called “fat” but “huge
Erasure of small fat people! Somebody sue them!
I wonder when Little Red Riding Hood will be re-written …. with the Big Bad Wolf re-written to become the Large, Misunderstood, Victim of Discrimination?
We have ‘anti racism’ training tomorrow at work so I guess I will find out if it’s the same in England.
You are guilty!
Send ’em down!
Oh dear. Looks like South Park might be next to get the Harry and Meghan Treatment;
”Royal commentator Neil Sean has stated the couple’s legal team is now watching the series closely for any more attacks.
Sean said: “According to sources close to the ex-royals, it appears that, like so many things with Meghan and Harry, this may have legal ramifications attached.
“Their legal team are casting an eye over the episode to see what is wrong, and what could be turned into something more sinister.”
However, Fox News have stated it has not yet been confirmed whether legal action will be taken or not.”
https://www.gbnews.uk/royal/meghan-markle-and-prince-harrys-lawyers-are-looking-into-south-park-after-sussexes-ruthlessly-attacked-in-new-series/444846
Harry and Meghan really have some paper-thin skins, it seems! They can’t seem to take even a tiny fraction of what they dish out.
Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others.
Well done SNP. You have successfully trashed what was the best educational system in the UK and you don’t even recognise the damage done in your name.
God help us.
I doubt if State “Education” in England is much better.
Go private if you can afford it, or Home School, or emigrate …… if you don’t want your children turned into brain-dead, indoctrinated drones.