The secondary school I attend is exceptional. The ethos, staff and support provided are unmatched in my locality, having significantly aided my progress. I began my journey in the middle set in Year Seven, yet now find myself among the top achievers across all subjects. The school fervently promotes the expansion of one’s horizons, motivating students to pursue excellence in areas beyond the classroom. They facilitate events and excursions for those who excel in various disciplines, be it music, drama or sport.
The safeguarding team’s support is formidable, with dedicated spaces for those in need of mental health assistance, while the careers adviser diligently meets each Year 11 student. She invites local colleges to visit, thus broadening our choices for future educational pathways.
However, it is lamentable that the Government’s educational policies threaten to undermine the splendid reputation my school rightfully holds, imposing a rigid educational framework that panders to the woke agenda, disrupting our learning experience unnecessarily.
This year is pivotal. I face weeks of GCSE examinations in early summer. The results will serve as my passport to a future rife with opportunities – enabling me to apply to good universities, Oxford included, and, ultimately, secure a rewarding career.
To realise this ambition, I must devote myself to diligent study. Yet as I navigate the autumn term of Year 11, I find myself burdened with assignments about maintaining health, advocating for veganism and a reduction in meat consumption – all, weirdly, part of preparing for my GCSE in French. Furthermore, I endure lessons on multiculturalism, racism, mutual respect and the purported benefits of mass immigration.
Though such lessons may seem trivial, they serve as persistent distractions.
We partake in one ‘Life’ lesson per week, a version of PSHE, currently under trial. It is anticipated that this will eventually morph into a GCSE subject. One would hope to gain practical life skills such as financial literacy or critical reasoning from this class, but instead we are lectured on multiculturalism and identity politics. While the subject matter may shift next half-term, these hours squander valuable time that would be better spent on revision. We could benefit from an additional maths lesson – we currently have four per week – or enhance our French, where only two hours are allocated weekly, or even focus on assisting those students who grapple with specific subjects. After all, last year’s grades were not commendable enough to warrant such distractions.
During one lesson under a substitute teacher, we were given a worksheet exploring inclusivity, racism, and discrimination. We were tasked with analysing case studies related to racism and responding to questions concerning the Kick It Out campaign and the LGBT community. Thankfully, many pupils switched their attention to homework or idle chatter, seeking refuge from the onslaught of ideological ‘instruction’.
In our French classes, we have countless themes to cover. Rather than engaging in sophisticated dialogue or ordering a baguette, we are compelled to say – in French – how we intend to help the environment and promote public health. Phrases like “je mangerai moins de viande” (I will eat less meat) and “je deviendrai végétarien” (I will become a vegetarian) dominate our learning.
Ironically, despite the plethora of phrases regarding pollution and recycling, we are not given the opportunity to voice counterarguments, such as “mais ça pollue quand même” (but that still causes pollution). This is a clear instance of indoctrination masquerading as education, but it’s not the school’s fault – it’s just teaching the French GCSE syllabus.
Teachers find themselves with little choice but to comply with these directives.
Future cohorts of Year 11 may endure even more time-wasting nonsense. I hope they’ll see beyond the distractions and focus on their ambitions and academic achievements.
Jack Watson is a 16 year-old schoolboy in Year 11. You can read his Substack about following Hull City FC here.
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This should be a breach of the Education Acts and subject to competence and disciplinary proceedings.
It is important Reform make their position clear so the teachers and eslites cannot, in future, claim they were repeating opinions and values held across the political spectrum.
The Reform education spokesman, if they have one or when they do, should call this out in clear terms.
Another cracker, Jack.
More people like you in the world, please.
I wish you great health, wealth and happiness.
And if you get to Oxbridge, please sort them out, too.
Yes indeed. Very intelligent young man. Clearly presents the brainwashing and lunacy that is ‘education’. I am sure in French they will have to repeat (after the 5 minute hate scream), ‘je ne suis pas un homme, en fait, je voudrais d’etre une fille, une fille noir, une fille noir et enceinte par un Musulman…’
You regurgitate state dogma, therefore you are.
Jack, it’s refreshing to know that we have eloquent young people like you going through our “education” system and still able to exercise critical thought. Never be shaken from your determination to uphold free thinking and free speech!
As an erstwhile Modern Languages teacher, I’m so glad I changed career a couple of decades ago and thus escaped the pressure to force all this woke and net zero doctrine into the ears of my students.
Reading this gave me hope for the future; we need way more Jacks’s and a hell of a lot less Gretas and the world will be a much better, cohesive and free world!
”Education comes from the Latin educere, meaning ‘to draw out’ the pupil. That is to say, true education is less about what you put into the student, and more about what you draw out of them.”
I think it is Ron DeSantis who talks about education not indoctrination, I do not agree with everything he says but I am with him on that one. When I was a secondary school governor I used to find it heartening in a way that after the anti-smoking classes so many would nip of round the bike shed for a drag to get over that tedious session. If we truly believe in education we would present all sides of the argument and let them decide. But they will not do that in case people make the wrong decision!
If you are really going to indoctrinate people it is difficult and you have to do it from all angles but it is coming. Katie Hopkins is talking about our restricted society and how it is becoming the norm, it is a short clip and in my view worth a look and listen;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv7hNK_SVu0
Thank goodness for Katie Hopkins.
Sadly I was distracted by her setting for the video – walking in a field in the countryside – holding what seemed to be a smartphone recording this as a selfie video. So whilst I was speculating on the setting and the distraction of it all I did not take in a word of what she says.
Sorry folks if her words are wise. I have no idea if they are or not because I heard the sounds but not the words – distracted by the ever changing setting.
Only one of many questions was how she managed to keep the picture so steady as she walked in a field which looks uneven ground.
Maybe it is a high end phone with awesome picture stabilisation?
Who knows?
I don’t spend good money on such fripperies if there are such phones.
Can anyone tell me please?
Meantime, sorry Katie but maybe the only way I will take in what you are saying is by reading the transcript.
But right now I have no incentive or interest in doing so even for just a 6 minute video.
I am more interested to know what kind of camera you were using because with most phones the image would be jumping around all over the place.
PS. I used to video club competitive sports hence my interest in the video quality.
it’s just teaching the French GCSE syllabus
Translating all the phrases supposed to be programmed into your head into French doesn’t turn endless repetition of them into teaching French.
Marxists have completed their long march through the institutions. Conservatives need to get organised and start the long walk back.
No. Conservatives cannot be trusted as this was done during the past 14 years of arrant stupidity and dereliction of duty.
Parents need to get political themselves.
In fact we all need to get political ourselves and actively so.
And to be effective at it too.
Only a small part of this is commenting on DS and sharing views with others.
There is a lot more to it.
Get cracking and get yourselves out there and do it now.
I assume John’s talking about true Conservatives not this bunch of idiot politicians passing themselves off as conservatives.
“true Conservatives”?
Wot’s them?
What we have now is not going to change any time soon and what should they change to?
What is the political philosophy of ‘true Conservatives”?
What in general terms are the policies ‘true Conservatives’ espouse?
Belief in ‘true Conservatives’ is like believing in Anglican or Roman Christianity or Judaism but without the creeds of those faiths.
And then when you get a creed you end up with dogma.
Dogma + broad liberal education = death of dogma [after some time for the education to work].
Epi, I think you got my comment right. I meant conservatives, not the current lot of Tory Conservatives. Just people with conservative values, that’s all.
La Multiculturalisme? Ça me retourne les tripes!
Oui, ca me fait sentir malade!
“The safeguarding team’s support is formidable, with dedicated spaces for those in need of mental health assistance, “
I thought it was a school not a lunatic asylum.
But it tells us much about our schools.
But then the author is surprised that… “… imposing a rigid educational framework that panders to the woke agenda, disrupting our learning experience unnecessarily.”
I’m not – safeguarding teams and woke propaganda are stable mates.
The mental health focus is not about childrens’ mental health.
It is a much more subtle version of the USA’s teen screen programme which bit the dust after about 12 to 14 years after Senate investigations led by – from memory – Senator Grassley which showed it was no more than a scheme to get healthy US teens onto psych drugs with seriously damaging side effects.
The UK’s focus on ‘mental health’ is a direct descendant of a more blatant US version.
I love the fools who say ‘I have mental health’ as if that was a health disorder or disease.
Yes darling, we all have ‘mental health’. If we did not we would be dead.
Whenever I despair of the younger generation of brainwashed, compliant people, along comes another great article by Jack Watson, daring to fight back against it all.
Where are the parents in all this? Why aren’t they complaining to the school at parent-teacher meetings, complaining to their local councils, complaining to their MPs about this appalling waste of their children’s time and energy, being force-fed Communist Propaganda?
My heart bleeds for you pal good luck with your fight back try and mobilise your mates.
Give the blighters some serious push back.
Nuclear power good. Carnivore diet good. Enforcing borders to protect the English working class good.
Wind power totally shite, and less green than Nuclear or gas. Vegan diet totally shite requiring topping out with factory produced chemicals. Mass immigration totally shite leading to a low trust divided society, with worse outcomes for all except a political establishment totally isolated from the consequences of their catastrophic policies.
For instance.
“mobilise your mates”
Bingo.
Surround yourself with people who make you feel good.
tu dois manger les insectes
“What to think” ————-or————- “How to think”——–A Tyrannical regime always chooses the former.
Thank you for keeping us informed. Not being in education and having grown up children, I have no idea what is going on in schools.
How old are your grown up children. If they are in the 20s they will have been subjected to some of this. It has been going on for at least the best part of two decades.
And you will only find out about it if your kids express the views that the have been indoctrinated with.
A 16 year-old wrote this? Really??
I’m astonished.
It is a little known fact that extremely bright students – those in the top 1-2% – are consistently and repeatedly failed by the education system. Jack Watson seems to be at a good school and seems to be flourishing.
This by him is encouraging for him personally but not necessarily for others:
“To realise this ambition, I must devote myself to diligent study.”
A common problem is that very bright students don’t have to study.
One I know who dropped out of university explained that he only revised for an hour before exams. If he had three exams he would do 20 minutes revision of each on the day of the exams.
The problem is that when students like that get to second year A level they have not developed the skills needed to study and to learn by study so have no idea how to do it.
They are challenged suddenly for the first time.
Just being very smart is not enough to work out how to do things all by one’s self after 18 years not needing to learn how to.
There are skills which need to be taught by good educators.
Other very bright students hit problems earlier with bullying because they are ‘different’ and get picked on.
This can happen at infant school reception classes or later.
I remember seeing one child [call him ‘Tom’] who suffered in this way one day crying walking 20 to 30 metres behind his mother who had no time for him leading him reluctantly and painfully slowly to school.
He did not want to go. This was 10am in the morning – an hour after school started. This must have been happening every day.
Sadly for him and fortunately for another [call him Fred], Fred’s parents took Fred out of that school because of bullying and put Fred into a school for high achieving children.
That was Fred’s third infant school and it worked well for Fred.
By pure coincidence ‘Tom’ had replaced Fred at Fred’s first school.
And ‘Tom’ also left that first school.
Again by pure coincidence Tom had again replaced Fred at the second school.
Sadly for Tom his mother was not up to meeting the very real needs of her child so never bothered to discover what the cause was or if she knew she did not have the time for her own child to resolve it.
Good for Fred. Not so good for Tom.
‘Tom’ and ‘Fred’ are pseudonyms.
Hello Jack,
I am interested in knowing more about how other students react.
How many if any recognise this is political brainwashing?
It has lead to a degree of social destabilisation by indoctrinating children with alien ideas and setting them against their parents.
But if enough students recognise this for what it is then perhaps it will be counter-productive?
Sadly however this probably works on George W Bush’s hallowed rule that ‘you can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time so those are the ones to concentrate on’.
So as maybe 10% recognise it for what it is 90% do not and follow like sheep.
Goodness I wish I’d had Jack’s maturity when I was his age. Another excellent piece thank you.
It’s not just educational establishments the workplace is just as bad.