Monday, April 16, 2007

Gloriously failing the Tebbit test

By Emdad Rahman

Baljeet Ghale, the first ethnic minority president of the National Union of Teachers, believes that ordering schools to teach “British values” merely incites racism.

During the NUT’s annual conference in Harrogate last week, she said that plans to put Britishness on the curriculum risked encouraging the "shadow of racism."

Conference Professor Gus John said attempts to teach British values would be "fatuous", whilst further claiming that all schools must assume that they are institutionally racist.

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