VOODOO PARENTS OBJECT TO JUJU ASSEMBLIES
A SCHOOL headteacher has resigned after voodoo parents demanded the right to withdraw their children from assemblies that included juju.
Publish Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:00:01 +0100 Read more...
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Head teacher tries to scrap the separate assemblies held by a parent for the muslim kids and introduce ones which embrace all faiths, and she gets called a racist.
Is multiculturalism racist now, and we've totally missed the point for the last thirty years and what people from other faiths really want is to be recognised as different and distinct?
Last edited by FatherJack on February 11th, 2009, 16:10, edited 1 time in total.
I think it says a lot for the integration of different races and religions in the UK. Whatever their belief and skin tone you still get some parents being utter fucking bell ends.
Without trying to sound too BNP-esqe, why the fuck are that child's parents living in the UK if they object to their child being taught on some level in a multicultral environment?
Not only are they pushing their own views on their child (I've ranted about that before as I think it's disgusting behaviour for adults), but they're insisting their child needs to kept with it's own "ilk" and seperate from the rest of the school, making the children stand out and be different, which is detrimental to the child.
Not to mention it's only fucking primary school assemblies. I mean ffs, a resignation of a trained teacher (which this country is lacking) over assemblies!? Madness.
It makes me cringe when people start a conversation with
"i'm not a racist..."
that's normally followed by
"and I have asian friends"
and
"one of my best mates is black"
I doubt anyone's opinion here is actually racist, its just because of some tossers somewhere that people feel like they need to apologise before they can have an opinion on anything remotely encompassing race/religion/culture.
amblin wrote:As an example: I believe being British comes with certain criteria; being polite, queuing in an orderly fashion, not taking up more room than is strictly necessary and not referring to women in any way which suggests they are either property, objects or in some way lesser than men. (Excepting for humourous and non-serious purposes, mostly around you lot.) I do not believe the Muslim subjugation of women, the Chinese barging approach to queuing, the West Indian culturally influenced music (rap) and fashion (see any chav honkey in the street trying hard to look black) have any place in British society. That's an entirely racist view based upon my upbringing, personality and environment, which hasn't changed despite all attempts at multiculturalism in this country.
I doubt there is anyone here that wouldn't agree with that view.
Racism to me is about disliking a person based on something they can't change. i.e. skin colour, country of birth. It is not disliking someone because they behave like a twat.
Fear wrote:
Racism to me is about disliking a person based on something they can't change. i.e. skin colour, country of birth. It is not disliking someone because they behave like a twat.
You're lucky you have chavs to blame, our "chavs" live in the cities and consist of (mostly) ethnic minorities, and you can't say anything bad about them or you're branded racist for the rest of your life. By white people mind you.
Education should be secular and anyone that doesn't agree is a racist, possibly also a paedophile. There's children involved so I'm sure that a case for it somewhere in the argument.
This is the sort of incident that has led to a massive rise in support for the BNP in my home town. It's one misguided reaction in opposition to an equally misguided action. Racism is overused and misunderstood, and I'd like to use feminism as a parallel:
I consider myself a feminist. Many women who consider themselves feminists would disagree. Those women think men are inferior, and that a feminist is someone who promotes women over men. I think women are equal to men, in the overall scheme of things. It's not about one over another, it's about equality, about judging someone on their actions rather than who they are. I got my views on feminism from my Sister, who got it from Germaine Greer. I have the same opinions on race; I don't care what colour or culture someone is. I got my views on this from growing up with a mix of Asian and white guys. Whichever were in the minority were abused by the majority. I've been the subject of racist abuse, and I've even been told I would be the only white guy who would be safe in the college common room because I stood up for an Asian guy who was on the recieving end of some, which I thought was just as bad as the abuse he was getting.
Anyway, the point I was making was that the people accusing this teacher of racism no more understand it than the women who hate men understand feminism.
I stick with misanthropy - don't discriminate against skin colour or religion, my default opinion is that most people are generally cunts until proven otherwise. Well, I say that but I'm generally very nice to people.
I've never been able to class myself as anything. I'm most certainly not religious, but I hate to brand myself atheist because of twats like Richard Dawkins, and agnostics always seem like complete fence sitters.
I'd always previously considered myself to be British/English, but over the years I've become more and more embarrassed at being associated with my fellow countrymen (anyone who has been abroad and other Brits are there will know what I mean). Especially when you see Facebook groups with names like 'This is England not Poland so fuck off', and you read the uninformed, hateful bile that these low life scum bags spew onto the internet.
I mean fuck, I was always resentful of school assemblies as a child because even from a young age I thought religion was ridiculous. I hated christians when I was younger because I always made to feel like some sort of delinquent by teachers when they found out I didn't believe what they did. Fuck the Muslims, Christians and Jews - when will Humanists be represented in school assemblies.
Aargh, this sort of stuff makes me angry, and I don't need that after a bastarding 12 hour day at work.
Religious involvement in schools is something that gets to me. I feel it has no real place - children should be taught the basic moral concepts that allow us to function in society, and as it happens form the basis of most religions.
Whilst the various common faiths should be covered, it should be treated along with various other cultural choices with an aim to understanding and tolerance.
My time at school has probably shaped this, our teaching focused on how great Christianity was, then when other faiths were covered it was more to look at how this was inferior.
randomgazz wrote:My time at school has probably shaped this, our teaching focused on how great Christianity was, then when other faiths were covered it was more to look at how this was inferior.
I had an RE teacher at high school who was married to a vicar, almost all the lessons were very Christianity biased, and underhand comments were made about other religions.
Needless to say, I spent my time making the bitch miserable until I got a bollocking, at which point I invoked the fearsome parent defence tactic.
End result was that the teacher got sent away for 6 months of retraining
VOODOO PARENTS OBJECT TO JUJU ASSEMBLIES
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