An SNP training programme allows teachers to take the equivalent of three days out from the classroom to learn how to “decode racial microaggressions”. The Telegraph has the story.
The Building Racial Literacy programme – delivered by Education Scotland, the quango – trains teachers to “decode race and racial microaggressions”.
This refers to subtle, often unintentional acts that convey a negative attitude toward someone of a different race.
The course also examines “intersectionality”, the ways in which racism interacts with other factors such as class and gender.
It features a specially written poem, ‘Seeds of Antiracist Education’ by Tawona Sithole, which talks about “racial trauma leading to mental unwellness” and an “unfair burden placed on people of colour”.
Teachers who choose to sign up attend seven online webinars and events, spread across five months, adding up to 18.5 hours – more than three full school days.
The programme’s website said more than 400 people had “experienced it”, with a further 340 “being welcomed” in the 2024-25 financial year. As well as teachers, they included nursery staff and those who write exams.
Stephen Kerr, the Scottish Tory MSP, said that meant more than 400 teachers had been pulled out of school, at a cost of more than 7,400 teaching hours, which he argued exacerbated staff shortages. …
Scottish schools have dropped down international league tables under the SNP, with pupils falling behind their English counterparts in literacy, maths and science.
The most recent Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) global study also found that Scotland had the widest attainment gap between the wealthiest and poorest pupils for maths of any of the U.K. home nation.
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Non-essential tasks the ruination of real work. Bad enough before I left corporate life a decade ago, and that was before the DIE industry had come in all bonkers blazing.
The course is a macro aggression against white people
More anti-whitism. More race-based hate. More bigotry. More poisonous bilge. All enabled by the British Establishment. It’s time the anti-whitists either give up their evil ideology (“intersectionality”) or foxtrot oscar. And it’s time to get rid of our deeply inadequate rulers.
Tawona Sithole…?
Is that for real?
If it is, then that’s a perfect example of nominative determinism.
FFS. Enough of this bullshit. What a waste of time and money.
Scotland can spend loads of money on this nonsense as the English pay for it. That makes this thing twice as ridiculous
Perhaps in the next referendum on independence, we English can vote to get rid of Scotland.
I thought the Microagression had resigned months ago – is she still around?
What about acts casting aspersions on certain demographics that are not so subtle?
Like stabbings, and the organised rape of vulnerable girls? What does the SNP propose to do about that?
Well done to MSP Stephen Kerr for exposing yet more Leftist Insanity!
It would be interesting to see data on how many teachers actually sign up for this nonsense. Also to see why they attended. But to attend is to freely admit you don’t know how to properly conduct yourself in society. You are admitting your parents didn’t do a very good job of raising you and for some reason you are riddled with guilt most likely brought about by this endless political preaching that we in the western world are all racists and just don’t realise it. —-I reject that nonsense, and if I were a teacher today I would seek some other kind of employment outwith the captured institutions as I will not be made to feel like some kind of race criminal by squirming politicians determined to stuff agenda’s down my throat.
It is astounding that anyone in their right mind would sign up for this. It amounts to literally admitting that you have a racism problem and you need to enrol yourself on some programme to cure yourself of it. Or are they doing it just out of sheer curiosity? Or perhaps taking the opportunity to crusade against wokeism by defiantly opposing the course content?
I know I’d be tempted just for that reason!
It would be fascinating to be a fly on the wall of one of these course venues. I wonder how they pan out in reality… Does everyone just nod along and agree on fear of losing their jobs, or are there fierce debates and challenges to the woke ideology being presented? Have all the staff signed up for the programme only to be defiant?