News Round-Up
18 June 2025
Joanna Gray says she was too kind to describe schools as institutionalised childcare. The reality is even worse. Often they're just a holding pen, or even a pre-custody suite.
After 14 years of schooling, Joanna Gray argues that her son's paltry academic gains reveal a deeper truth: schools are less about learning and more about socialising and keeping children occupied so that parents can work.
Woke teaching materials being promoted in schools claim that black people built Stonehenge and that Emperor Nero married a trans woman – while Waterloo and Trafalgar are quietly dropped from the curriculum.
Renaud Camus – the French thinker banned from the UK over his Great Replacement idea – deserves to be listened to on another key topic of our times, says Dr Nicholas Tate: the destruction of Western education.
The UK's SEND sector is an expensive, infantilising job-creation scheme for middle-aged women that fails to improve outcomes and urgently needs cutting back, argues Mary Gilleece.
Michael Rainsborough watched Adolescence expecting to see stale, regime propaganda. In fact, he thinks it's a deeply subversive, vituperative satire of post-liberal Britain.
PETA's schools programme tells children that animals are "just like us" and it's wrong to have pets and zoos. An organisation that has likened farming to the Holocaust has no place in the classroom, says Brian Monteith.
A council-funded sex education presentation shown in schools to teenagers as young as 14 has told them how to 'safely' choke their girlfriends during sex, saying it must always be done "with consent".
GCSE exams are becoming tools of 'anti-racist' indoctrination, says Steven Tucker. Since 2020, works are studied because of the message they push, not their literary merit. And woe betide a pupil who dares to dissent!
A top state school has published its Relationships and Sex Education materials online and the content is damning, says Caroline Ffiske. Stuffed with gender ideology pseudoscience, no wonder teenagers are confused.
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