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UK Schools Stopping Teaching Controversial Subjects
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/3288 ^

Posted on 04/01/2007 2:28:48 PM PDT by chessplayer

SCHOOLS AXE CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECTS

Schools are dropping controversial subjects from history lessons - such as the Holocaust and the Crusades - because teachers do not want to cause offence, Government research has found.

The way the slave trade is taught can lead white children - as well as black pupils - to feel alienated, according to the study by the Historical Association.

Some teachers have even dropped the Holocaust completely from lessons over fears that Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic reactions in class.

And one school avoided teaching the Crusades because its "balanced" handling of the topic would directly contradict what was taught in local mosques.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crusades; dhimmitude; education; eurabia; holocaust; islam; rop; thecrusades; theholocaust
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Good grief.
1 posted on 04/01/2007 2:28:50 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

Iran is almost the least of the UK's problems.


2 posted on 04/01/2007 2:32:12 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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I think they should stop teaching reading and writing because sometime in the future each of these kids will read or write something that will offend someone else.

PC run amuck.


3 posted on 04/01/2007 2:32:22 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
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To: chessplayer

Welcome to Dhimmitude.


4 posted on 04/01/2007 2:33:02 PM PDT by Captain Rhino ( Dollars spent in India help a friend; dollars spent in China arm an enemy.)
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Leaving students ignorant wouldn't be so bad in the US if the schools didn't also leave them illiterate. At least someone who knows how to read can find out things for himself. Learning ancient history (anything before 1980) doesn't come by osmosis.


5 posted on 04/01/2007 2:37:33 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: chessplayer

April Fools, right?


6 posted on 04/01/2007 2:38:28 PM PDT by conserveababe (Candidate Rudy Giuliani is turning many on this site into anti-gunners.)
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To: chessplayer

As far as I know this is not an Onion-like article. Please, someone, prove me wrong.


7 posted on 04/01/2007 2:39:19 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: chessplayer

Adieu Britain...once you were Great.

8 posted on 04/01/2007 2:39:39 PM PDT by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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To: chessplayer

More here:

Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1810297/posts?page=45


9 posted on 04/01/2007 2:40:17 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: sgtbono2002

Who says they haven't?


10 posted on 04/01/2007 2:40:29 PM PDT by Khepera (Do not remove by penalty of law!)
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To: chessplayer

Political Correctness in the United Kingdom seems to run about 2-5 years ahead of here, so expect to see this bull$hit here in a short time. The NEA, ACLU, Media, NAMBLA, NOW, DNC, CAIR are all on the same page, working towards socialism/communism in the USA.


11 posted on 04/01/2007 2:47:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Iran delenda est)
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They should drop teaching math, as it will teach logical thinking and then they will want to learn about the other suubjects.

As a matter of fact they should just cancel shchool all together, they are all idiots already.


12 posted on 04/01/2007 2:53:40 PM PDT by stockpirate (Giuliani, McCain and Romney, liberals masquerading as conservatives. Cross dressers if you will.)
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The biggest problem they have is the same one they had at the beginning of WWII,.......no guns. This time I don't think Americans citizens will be shipping their rifles to Briton. All the problems we attract for ourselves can be solved if we keep the Second Amendment. They, however are defenseless. I was very disappointed in the Aussies giving up their God given rights. I've always been intrigued by the insanity of volunteering to be a slave. It has something to do with self loathing. I can just hear the liberals all agreeing that somehow we've out grown this and we are beyond violence, and it must be "different now. They will live long enough to wittiness their children's heads being sawed off with a dull pocket knife and wonder how this could be in a "civilized" world.

We have once again voted people into office that has in their genetic makeup, an aversion to freedom, self defense, and common sense. They haven't been in power 3 months and the gun bans are stacking up to be voted on. I don't want to seem too harsh on the Brit's and Aussies when we did the same thing. A .308 165gn BTHP in the hands of the citizenry can solve many problems very quickly.

13 posted on 04/01/2007 3:09:41 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: chessplayer
A strangely prescient movie.
14 posted on 04/01/2007 3:11:08 PM PDT by aft_lizard (born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
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To: chessplayer
The way the slave trade is taught can lead white children - as well as black pupils - to feel alienated, according to the study by the Historical Association.

Some teachers have even dropped the Holocaust completely from lessons over fears that Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic reactions in class.

This line is about where I stopped reading. School isn't supposed to be about feelings, it's supposed to be about reason, logic, and facts. Slavery is bad, but it's still going on in Africa which suggests maybe, just maybe, whitey is not the root of all evil. The Crusades were nothing more than a delayed reaction by Christian Europe to the Jihad of the Arabs.

As far as the Muslim students cheering for the Holocaust, there is a place for them since Hell is not an immediate option. They can be placed on suspension or expelled, then mommy and daddy to can send them to a madrassa in Pakistan for a "proper" Muslim education in Arab supremacy and Jihad./rant off

15 posted on 04/01/2007 3:22:17 PM PDT by Quick or Dead (Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms - Aristotle)
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To: chessplayer

Close the schools.
They might upset someone.


16 posted on 04/01/2007 3:39:04 PM PDT by Overseez
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Does this mean they can stop teaching global warming because it may offend those who don't believe in it?


17 posted on 04/01/2007 3:39:29 PM PDT by teacherwoes (A fugitive from a Democrat Congress)
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To: sgtbono2002

Once more, the "merits" of diversity on full display. Diversity merely breeds contempt and a feeling of differentness. Homogeny and shared cultural values breeds a sense of belonging.

Now what is important in drawing those lines is diffferent from society to society, but it just goes to show what an immediate and universal failure multi-culturalism is going to be.


18 posted on 04/01/2007 3:43:30 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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To: CheyennePress

My sentiments exactly on Diversity, I have never seen where it does anything except lower the higher standards to a common denominator.

It can be seen in American schools every day.


19 posted on 04/01/2007 4:36:57 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
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To: chessplayer

Calculus will soon be dropped because it makes the kids feel uncomfortable.


20 posted on 04/01/2007 4:40:07 PM PDT by Malesherbes
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