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LeroysBoots 9:41 Wed Oct 11
Education in the UK

Any of you lot have kids at school or college ?

Do you think you know what is being taught to your kids, without your permission ?

My wife is a personal tutor at a college

They have an HR department that instructs the staff to call all the kids they

They insist on a virulent woke agenda throughout everything they do

Latest, they all had to stay behind ( in their own time ) to listen to a trans in pigtails talking about how great it is to be them.

99% of all staff hate this agenda but are being bullied to accept it or face "consequences".

I said to my wife it sounds like indoctrination akin to the Nazi regime

I said to her thank god we don't have kids at school these days

The head has assemblies where she doesn't address the kids as boys or girls

What the fuck happened to our country and why is this allowed to continue dye to a vocal minority of cunts

She leaves at Christmas as she's had enough

LeroysBoots 9:42 Wed Oct 11
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Due, not dye

mallard 9:43 Wed Oct 11
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Does your wife teach using multiple spacing in between sentences?

LeroysBoots 9:49 Wed Oct 11
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Very helpful

goose 9:55 Wed Oct 11
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Boots where is the school you’re talking about? My missus best pal is a teacher and was telling us about how many kids (mostly white girls) have now decided they are non-binary or queer or some such nonsense.

Mine are both at primary school and thankfully the head mistress is very old fashioned.

Eldest goes to secondary in a couple of years and I think we’ll send him to the catholic school in Bishop Stortford.

SecondOpinion 10:00 Wed Oct 11
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So glad I got out of education after 29 years of this kind of bullshit, mostly driven I would say by women

LeroysBoots 10:36 Wed Oct 11
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Second has it spot on, head and her leadership team are all women

It's a college in East Sussex

Mad Dog 11:10 Wed Oct 11
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I'm a teacher in secondary (noy sure ive mentioned it)

Being in maths most of the woke / inclusive stuff flies by me. They do the odd inclusive assembly an ld I will say kids are far more tolerant today than they used to be.

However it's no shock to me that at the last school I was at where there was a big push on this we had at least 7 trans kids. My current school which is 3 x the size doesn't have any.

As Bill mahr pointed out. Its regional.

Mike Oxsaw 11:15 Wed Oct 11
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I think education started deteriorating ("modernising" itself) in the late 1960s, when the majority of teachers, by then, had no actual experience of the Second World Way and it's following austerity.

I (can still) recall a few days with my younger brother (by 2 years) who was being taught "new maths".

Both my father and I tried to help him but were firmly told by the school that we should stay out of it as working out a solution "the old way" was no longer acceptable.

He was distraught, as was I for having what was, a year earlier, a perfectly acceptable solution to his problems, which was now fully off-agenda. I was still able to use that same solution at my school, however.

He eventually conquered it but it set him back a whole year in trying to do so.

It was equally noticeable with the apprentice intake that followed mine (in 1973) over the next few years - each year appeared less and less prepared for life in the real world.

Council Scum 11:19 Wed Oct 11
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My daughter and step daughter go to the same grammar school.

The often come home talking about how awful Tories are, how rich they are and that calling someone a Tory is a genuine put down.

If I try to explain that not all people who vote Tory are rich, I get told I'm talking rubbish. We have a marvellous left wing education system.

BRANDED 11:52 Wed Oct 11
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When I was at school we loved being racist, sexist and violent.

Hammer and Pickle 12:07 Wed Oct 11
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Do they teach anything apart from woke these days?

Only asking like.

yngwies Cat 12:11 Wed Oct 11
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My son goes to a decent school, really wanted to go as it's got a decent sports set up

Well that's before COVID

Now it's an exam factory and just seems to push the kids to do well so it can maintain its ofstead score. Good if your bright but the rest fall by the wayside.

He's really fucked off that the football seems to have stopped.

Still on the plus side, they really do have some right sorts teaching. Dunno if they are woke or not. I really do look forward to parents evening.

martyboy 12:44 Wed Oct 11
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The problem i have with teachers is they take there work home with them. What i mean by that is they like to talk down to people, and dont ever question what they are saying. We have one involved in the local football team. and shes always on the touchline lecturing all the adults about what you can say, do, and think. The women's a delusional beast, and hates it when told to shut up. Talks to adults like they are kids!!

zebthecat 12:56 Wed Oct 11
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The school my son went to (local comp) was very good when he was there. He has just started the final year of his degree.
There wasn't any noticeable political cant going on as far as I can tell as its main focus was giving the pupils the best exam results that they could and it worked - my son took five A-levels and two of them were extra options. It was a pretty narrow focus but they did have a very good rugby team and Drama dept and there were opportunities for extra curricular stuff like Duke of Edinburgh awards and NCS.
I will qualify that by saying that we live in an achingly middle class town in Sussex so it is in no way representative.

WHU(Exeter) 1:00 Wed Oct 11
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It’s not just education.

My mrs works in an area involved in dealing with calls from elderly and infirm callers, who may/may not need urgent medical assistance. A triage type thing.

Whilst she doesn’t personally take the calls, she does know that in the last few weeks, those who do take the calls now have to ask a number of extra questions, some of which relate to gender.

She’s involved in resourcing this and estimates that the extra questions will add on a minute 30/ 2 minutes to each incoming call, and will also be aimed at people who at their age will mostly be very frustrated and confused by the questions asked.

Still, it’s not as if it’s what could be a critical service, which is already under resourced.

It’s incredible.

Mike Oxsaw 1:19 Wed Oct 11
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During my final year in Oman, I was constantly bombarded by demands from the corporate HQ in America to complete 2 "Awareness" questionnaires, which I totally ignored, choosing to focus on my work.

Eventually, the Project Manager received a call from his boss (also in the US) to say that if I didn't complete the questionnaire, they would have to let me go - a real cut-off-your-nose job, if ever there was one.

I just shrugged my shoulders and said, "OK, bye," and went to empty my desk and clean my company laptop before handing it back.

My PM came rushing up to me 10 minutes later saying "It's OK, I've sorted it," and, indeed, when I checked on my corporate personnel file, I had completed said questionnaires, with top marks.

Turned out that he'd got "Someone in IT security" to solve the problem and HQ HR were now "well happy" for my contract to continue.

Seems that just saying you're not racist/sexist/any-ist is not enough these days - you have to prove (PROVE) it by answering a given set of questions.

Glad I'm out of all that shit. Fucking madness gone mad.

zico 1:23 Wed Oct 11
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Also not education but a good friend of mine works as a Radiographer and they have recently been told just to cover themselves that when they ask the usual questions, eg, name, age, address etc they now have to ask men, even men that are 100% definitely men, if they are pregnant!

Mike Oxsaw 1:35 Wed Oct 11
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zico 1:23 Wed Oct 11

The deeper worry there is if patients feel under pressure, whether implied or actual, to answer all the questions under fear that if they do not do so then they won't receive the treatment they need.

That's blatant abuse in my view.

LeroysBoots 2:11 Wed Oct 11
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If government is not advocating this woke agenda who is driving it through ?, how is this being allowed to infiltrate everything we do whilst the massive overwhelming majority of people are against it

Mike Oxsaw 2:34 Wed Oct 11
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I suspect that "the massive overwhelming majority of people" simply just want to get on with their lives, leaving the path open for the extremists to storm in and "take charge".

This is doubly so now, what with inflation and coming off the back of the Covid lock-downs.

There does need to be a kickback though; I simply refuse to give my custom/money to companies that give me the slightest impression that they're "Going Woke", but it's not my role in life to fight everybody else's battles; they, too, need to do as they see fit if they want this bollocks eradicated.

I fear that, being British, they'll tell you/me to fuck off while they get on with the important things in life, like watching the latest soaps/reality TV show and then, when it's too late and starts to affect them on a personal level, demand to know why "we" did nothing to "stop this shit" earlier.

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