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Schools branded 'racist' for trying to improve pupils' vocabulary because tackling the 'word gap' between middle and working class children 'has colonial roots'
Daily Mail ^ | October 10, 2022 | ELEANOR HARDING & Julie Henry

Posted on 10/11/2022 2:00:02 PM PDT by gitmo

An academic at a teacher training college has claimed efforts to improve vocabulary in schools are ‘racist, classist and ableist’.

Ian Cushing, lecturer in English and Education at Edge Hill University, believes tackling the ‘word gap’ – the difference between the language range of typical middle class and working class or disabled youngsters – has ‘colonial’ roots.

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To: chief lee runamok

This school is in England.


41 posted on 10/11/2022 2:49:57 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: gitmo
--- "...tackling the 'word gap' between middle and working class children 'has colonial roots'."

Fleming has a supporter in the Daily Mail comments, posting several times. She challenged someone to read his work, with providing a link. One finds his articles through the university page, and so I read one. It is in English and rather white he uses big white English words rooted in "colonial roots." If England is continued to be attacked as colonial, is parallel it should be recognized that the anti-slavery movement began in earnest in England. Additionally, the anti-colonial last decades have been one of Britain supporting others, not pillaging and raping and thieving. Fleming has published word salads at the PhD level with plenty of assertions that his research and analysis has "proven" something. It has not, says another PhD. Fleming's work is rather like the Daily Mail article characterizes it. This proves the academic Left of the Anglo zone shares its abiding racism across the Atlantic, Berkeley to Edge Hill. Leftist political claptrap dressed up as research.

42 posted on 10/11/2022 2:51:15 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow Government)
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To: gitmo

Even the English language is racist to Communists.


43 posted on 10/11/2022 2:53:43 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: PGR88
Why can't the English teach their children
44 posted on 10/11/2022 2:58:45 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: gitmo

“Keepin’it real”
Yeah, real dumb.

CC


45 posted on 10/11/2022 2:59:01 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: gitmo

ya... as I strain to understand wtf the person is saying as I order at the drive thru... I mumble to myself, catching myself and lowering the volume so they dont mess with my food. but I want to scream it!! SPEAK F*****G ENGLISH!!!


46 posted on 10/11/2022 3:00:39 PM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: gitmo

CRT

https://freebeacon.com/courts/federal-court-critical-race-theory-is-a-resource-to-transform-judiciary/


47 posted on 10/11/2022 3:02:22 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: gitmo

They don’t think it be like it is, but it do.


48 posted on 10/11/2022 3:10:35 PM PDT by Bloodandgravy (One can combine liberty with fraternity but neither of them with equality)
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To: gitmo

And the intelligence gap between any physics prof and the lecturer in English and Education at Edge Hill University also has colonial roots? Occam’s razor says otherwise.


49 posted on 10/11/2022 3:14:06 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: gitmo

Illiteracy is not a virtue


50 posted on 10/11/2022 3:14:49 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: gitmo

The permanent underclass. Beasts, who look like people.


51 posted on 10/11/2022 3:15:03 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: gitmo

So let’s all be stupid and uneducated.


52 posted on 10/11/2022 3:16:36 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: gitmo

53 posted on 10/11/2022 3:16:51 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: gitmo
Meanwhile there's this:

Dumbass-Black-Idiot

54 posted on 10/11/2022 3:22:59 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: dfwgator

Bingo.


55 posted on 10/11/2022 3:27:56 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gitmo

Gimme dat ding

Gimme dat

Gimme gimme dat


56 posted on 10/11/2022 3:29:16 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ( Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law the left understands)
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To: gitmo
So a white liberal wants to make sure Blacks and minorities stay disadvantaged.
Now who is holding the Black Man back?
This is the kind of white racist the POC's should be protesting against.

57 posted on 10/11/2022 3:31:51 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: RatRipper

Can’t argue with that. Your father was a good man. Everything he said is the basis for a stable family & life. This applies to everyone. It is universal.


58 posted on 10/11/2022 3:32:03 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: gitmo

To be so privileged as to be born and raised in an English speaking country, the language used internationally as a common denominator in areas of business and technology, but then to reject it is probably the most asinine idea ever.

Yes, it is rooted in English colonialism. YOU ARE WELCOME. That wasn’t all a bad thing, it brought institutions of health, education, and built roads, bridges, and railways. It raised the standard of living and brought a LANGUAGE common to many.

This is just anti-white, hate filled, bigotry and is cutting off your nose to spite your face.


59 posted on 10/11/2022 3:36:53 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: gitmo
Trying to make your own way in life is racist. Trying to earn a living is racist. Being diligent is racist. Hurrying is racist. Customer service is racist. Learning is racist. Math is racist. Science is racist. Being healthy is racist.

What the Left is teaching is what?

Being a sissy isn't racist. Changing your gender isn't racist. Being gay isn't racist. Being a pedophile isn't racist. Being a tattooed freak isn't racist. Killing babies isn't racist. Being a loser isn't racist. Mooching isn't racist. Being lazy isn't racist. Smoking dope isn't racist. Being pitiful isn't racist. Enabling other losers and wimps isn't racist. Self-pity isn't racist. Hatred of whitey isn't racist. Hatred of employers isn't racist.

Bottom line:

Living is Racist.

Curling up and dying of self-pity isn't...

Real message to humans: If you want to be a loser...be a Leftist.

60 posted on 10/11/2022 3:41:42 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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