More Hot Air?

[youngmafbog]

Or will this actually do something for a change and bring some sort of normality back to the classroom?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10521311/New-rules-schools-ban-teachers-discussing-topics-Black-Lives-Matter.html

[youngmafbog]

I wasnt dodging the question at all, hence the common sense point. Naomi has made it clearer.

Did you really not get that? What exactly do you think were the good points in the Holocaust then?

[mushroom25]

// I hope they can't just say the Holocaust was a bad thing, they must be ordered to quote David Irving's views in order to be balanced and impartial. //

But David Irving doesn't take the opposite view to "holocaust was a bad thing" - he claims it never took place, in flat contradiction to the Nazi government's own record keeping. your assertion is flawed.

[naomi24]

Jno would like Holocaust denier David Irving’s views taught, YMB.

[naomi24]

Cross-posted mushroom.

[jourdain2]

Late as usual - sorry. I am a retired teacher. So far as I have read this initiative I am very pleased that it is trying to interpose to remind current staff of the basic rules.
We were always enjoined and expected to teach without expressing bias. As a simple e.g. when I taught about the slave trade I also taught about the 'white slavery' going on in the mills at the same time.
Impartiality was a duty and I do not remember this being rescinded. perhaps it has not been made plain enough to the younger people who entered the profession. I am very, very glad that this is now being addressed.

[Old_Geezer]

Who is checking ?

[jourdain2]

Just read back and it seems that the Holocaust has been raised. I have never taught that it was anything other than horrific. I have tried to explain how it came about and the attitudes and circumstances that brought it about. No-one could teach that it never happened and that in itself it was so appalling. If anyone tried - he/she should be sacked.

[naomi24]

//I have never taught that it [the holocaust] was anything other than horrific. //

I'm pleased to hear it, jourdain. The mind boggles at any other suggestion - and that's putting it mildly. Where some people's brains are is anyone's guess.