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New curriculum will 'make every lesson politically correct'
The Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 25th January 2007 | LAURA CLARK

Posted on 01/28/2007 6:25:34 PM PST by Mount Athos

Children will be taught race relations and multiculturalism with every subject they study -from Spanish to science - under controversial changes to the school curriculum announced by the Government.

In music and art, they could have to learn Indian and Chinese songs and instruments, and West African drumming.

In maths and science, key Muslim contributions such algebra and the number zero will be emphasised to counter Islamophobia.

And in English, pupils will study literature on the experiences of migration - such as Zadie Smith's novel White Teeth, or Brick Lane, by Monica Ali.

One critic accused Education Secretary Alan Johnson of 'politicising' lessons with the new agenda. Tory MP Douglas Carswell, a member of the Commons education select committee, said schools will be vehicles for multicultural propaganda and classrooms turned into 'laboratories for politically-correct thought'.

Mr Johnson was also attacked over attempts to put Britishness on the curriculum as it emerged that suggested core values are so woolly they could apply to many countries.

With concerns that standards in the three Rs are unacceptable, ministers will also face accusations that they are diverting attention away from vital subjects.

Under the recommendations - put forward in a report by former headmaster Sir Keith Ajegbo -teachers will be expected to make 'explicit references to cultural diversity' in as many subjects as possible.

A new central theme covering 'identity and diversity' will be added to citizenship classes, which have been compulsory since 2002.

Pupils should be encouraged to discuss topics such as immigration, the legacy of the British Empire, the Commonwealth and the EU.

Teaching on immigration, including recent population movement from Eastern Europe, should touch on the benefits it brings to the economy and society, while also bringing 'political discontent and criticism'.

Pupils could even be tested on their attitudes to diversity in A-level and GCSEs, which will be redrafted to ensure they include 'issues related to diversity'.

But Professor Alan Smithers, of the University of Buckingham, asked: 'Do the Government have in mind a Britishness test for youngsters born in this country, as they do with people who arrive from other countries?'

Meanwhile, information technology lessons would involve joint Web projects or video-conferencing with youngsters around the world.

Sir Keith, whose report was commissioned following last July's suicide bomb attacks in London, warned that pupils could become 'disaffected' and 'alienated' if they felt unable to discuss cultural issues in subject areas.

'Education for diversity must be viewed as a whole-curriculum focus,' he said.

However, Mr Carswell said: 'This report is prescribing precisely the wrong medicine to heal the wounds of a society that multiculturalism has divided. This is a stark example of the politically- correct lobby hijacking the citizenship agenda.

'Recent arrivals to this country have all the more reason to be given a sense of what we are all about so they can become part of it and share it. But instead this will give the green light to every politically-correct Left-Wing educationist to further undermine our society.'

Teachers' unions warned that the curriculum is too crowded already to cope with extra demands.

John Dunford, general secretary of the headteachers' union ASCL, said: 'Once again, the burden is falling on schools to fix a problem which has its roots in the wider society.'


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: goodthink; hindu; india; indoctrination; littleredschoolhouse; mathematics; multiculturalmafia; publikskoolz; reeducationcenters; suicidebysocialism; thoughtcrime
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1 posted on 01/28/2007 6:25:35 PM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos
What's unimportant is you know your ABC's and a command of basic arithmetic. What's important is you are a good leftist. Weelcome to the all-new publik skrools.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

2 posted on 01/28/2007 6:30:30 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Mount Athos

The mission to whitewash history in curricula is going on all over the place. Funded by a variety Soros orgs and others in the globalist 3rd way movement these manipulators and trashers of truth must be stopped!


3 posted on 01/28/2007 6:30:40 PM PST by eleni121 ( + En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great))
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To: Mount Athos
the number zero will be emphasised

"Zero" as in what the kids will end up knowing in terms of useful knowledge.

4 posted on 01/28/2007 6:32:42 PM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Mount Athos

And zero was not invented by Muzzies! It was discovered as far as we know by Mayas and Hindus. Why do they insist on perpetuating this baloney?

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen99/gen99535.htm


5 posted on 01/28/2007 6:33:01 PM PST by eleni121 ( + En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great))
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To: Mount Athos

more Brit insanity; pathetic.


6 posted on 01/28/2007 6:33:32 PM PST by motorola7
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To: eleni121

Too late for them, they aren't getting my kids. (of course this is England anyway)


7 posted on 01/28/2007 6:34:04 PM PST by Shimmer128 (Pain is necessary, suffering is optional)
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To: Mount Athos
In maths and science, key Muslim contributions such algebra....

Although the word 'algebra' is Arabic in origin, the origin of algebra itself goes back to ancient Babylonians.

8 posted on 01/28/2007 6:36:39 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mount Athos

Is the Telegraph the one that's lying and attributing zero to the Muslim rather than the Hindus, or the proposed British curriculum?

Either way, I suspect a lot of British Hindus will be up in arms.


9 posted on 01/28/2007 6:38:06 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: metmom

Ping-a-ling.


10 posted on 01/28/2007 6:38:33 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: eleni121

Way too late to stop. 60 or 70 years ago, maybe, but I doubt it.


11 posted on 01/28/2007 6:39:54 PM PST by Freedom4US (u)
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To: Mount Athos

The multicultural mafia at work.

So the madrassas in London will be instituting this new touchy-feely kumbayah kurriculum as well?

Didn't think so.


12 posted on 01/28/2007 6:41:37 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: Shimmer128

Oh, don't kid yourself -- serious versions of this go on everywhere, here. I taught a university class which censored itself -- the students themselves refused to allow people with conservative viewpoints to give their views in class -- as the teacher, I had to wrestle with the class impulse in order to keep the forum open. Pathetic but true.


13 posted on 01/28/2007 6:42:06 PM PST by Thywillnotmine (take the wings of the morning)
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To: Mount Athos

The Brits have gone barmy. They are in a hole and they are designing better shovels.


14 posted on 01/28/2007 6:49:16 PM PST by rogue yam
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To: Mount Athos

I can't wait until grade two math class consists of a troupe of homosexual chippendales performing an interpretative dance, set to ethnic tribal drumbeats, to illustrate the proper way to sheath a surgically mutilated 3-pronged phallus with a gonadal-diversity-approved, union labor, halal tri-condom, followed by the proper procedure to initiate a partial-birth abortion (with real demonstration!) using fair-trade eco-friendly products, in the event that heterosexual intercourse was involved (rare), the condom failed, and the owner of said phallus was indeed truly male (50% chance, via government diversity quota). Following math is sex-ed.


15 posted on 01/28/2007 7:05:00 PM PST by M203M4
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16 posted on 01/28/2007 7:10:20 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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To: RKBA Democrat; DaveLoneRanger; 2Jedismom; Aggie Mama; agrace; Antoninus; arbooz; bboop; blu; cgk; ..

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17 posted on 01/28/2007 8:03:26 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Mount Athos
In maths and science, key Muslim contributions such algebra and the number zero will be emphasised to counter Islamophobia

Ever notice how moonbats talk about "root causes" of problems when doing so is downright stupid, yet fail to bring up the concept when it is truly relevant?

The root cause of Islamophobia is not failure to acknowledge "key Muslim contributions." If the true cause went away, Islamophobia would go with it.

18 posted on 01/28/2007 8:18:37 PM PST by freespirited (Honk for disbarment of Mike Nifong.)
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To: Mount Athos
I especially like the part about emphasizing zero. It fits well into the rest of the curriculum.
19 posted on 01/28/2007 8:25:54 PM PST by Malesherbes
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To: Mount Athos
In maths and science, key Muslim contributions such algebra and the number zero will be emphasised to counter Islamophobia.

Teaching children that muzzies invented algebra is supposed to make the like them more?????

20 posted on 01/28/2007 8:30:43 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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