{"id":1277912,"date":"2022-02-07T09:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T14:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1277912"},"modified":"2022-02-07T09:24:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T14:24:09","slug":"uk-government-to-investigate-critical-race-theory-lessons-in-brighton-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-government-to-investigate-critical-race-theory-lessons-in-brighton-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Government to Investigate Critical Race Theory Lessons in Brighton Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuk-government-to-investigate-critical-race-theory-lessons-in-brighton-schools%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1277912&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1249401995-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The UK\u2019s Department of Education is set to investigate Brighton and Hove city council after reports surfaced that up to 300 educators in the area are teaching \u201cconcerning\u201d CRT-style race theories.<\/p>\n<p>Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi has announced that officials from the Department of Education will be investigating Brighton Council following reports of illegal, and potentially racist content being taught by up to 300 teachers in Brighton schools.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Breitbart London&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/31\/diversity-training-tells-teachers-that-kids-arent-racially-innocent\/\">reported<\/a> in January that around 300 teachers from Brighton schools have undertaken divisive racial training \u2013 described as \u201cRacial Literacy 101\u201d sessions \u2013 so far, which are said to be intended to inform \u201cspecific racial literacy-focused lessons\u201d for pupils at school.<\/p>\n<p>It was revealed in a report from&nbsp;<em>The Telegraph<\/em>&nbsp;that primary school children \u2013 as young as seven \u2013 are currently being taught at school that they are&nbsp;not \u201cracially innocent\u201d because of the CRT-informed belief that white people are \u201cat the top of the [racial] hierarchy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Zahawi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/02\/05\/nadhim-zahawi-intervenes-councils-concerning-race-lessons-children\/\">told<\/a>&nbsp;<em>The Telegraph<\/em> that \u201creports like this one are so concerning\u201d, and that \u201cthese issues can be incredibly divisive if covered in the wrong way, and I am clear \u2013 as is the law in the country \u2013 that any contested theories and opinions must not be presented to young people as facts\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy officials are in contact with Brighton and Hove Council to further understand the exact nature of these materials\u201d, Zahawi continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A number of teachers in the UK have been told that kids as young as seven years old are not \u2018racially innocent\u2019 during mandatory diversity training. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0bKIlePgNW\">https:\/\/t.co\/0bKIlePgNW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1488492295796178951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking to Breitbart former teacher turned GB News Host <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/calvinrobinson\">Calvin Robinson<\/a> \u2013 who self-describes as being of mixed racial heritage \u2013 described the racial training as \u201cwicked and wrong\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo teach young people that they are inherently racist and guilty of being white is not just a \u201ccontested idea\u201d, it is an abhorrent viewpoint and has no place in education\u201d, Robinson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis idea of ancestral sin has become very popular among the hard-Left, the premise being that children are somehow guilty of the sins of their ancestors, regardless of what their involvement may or may not have been during the transatlantic slave trade. It\u2019s anti-white discrimination; racism. Any other form of racism would be stamped out immediately, so we must do the same here\u201d, Robinson continued.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The former teacher also said he was \u201cglad\u201d to see the Education Secretary \u201cstepping in\u201d, as \u201cwe\u2019ve had enough rhetoric from the Government, we need them to start enforcing the political neutrality laws schools should already be obeying\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Schools Ordered to Teach Eight-Year-Olds That \u2018Boys Can Have Periods Too\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k01OOBoogs\">https:\/\/t.co\/k01OOBoogs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1074332070254600192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Brighton\u2019s leftist council has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/07\/13\/brighton-pledges-to-become-britains-first-anti-racist-city\/\">long<\/a> history of endorsing so-called anti-racism talking points, with the council declaring the seaside city to have the first \u2018anti-racist\u2019 local authority in July 2020 after 10,000 people marched for BLM in the city and 1,700 people&nbsp;(now 2,463) signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/brighton-hove-city-council-declare-brighton-hove-to-be-an-anti-racist-city\">petition<\/a> demanding the city be declared \u2018Anti-Racist\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Party\u2019s Councillor Hannah Clare who is the Deputy Leader and Chair of the Children, Young People and Skills Committee for Brighton and Hove City Council, has defended the city\u2019s decision to teach \u201ccritical race theory\u201d \u2013 which is currently prohibited by the government to be taught as fact in schools \u2013 and claimed that teaching CRT is simply \u201ctalking about racism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in defence of CRT, Clare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0bhpt5z\">told<\/a> BBC Radio Sussex\u2019s Allison Ferns last week, \u201ccritical race theory is being used as a bogeyman here. And can I be clear what critical race theory actually is? Critical Race Theory is the idea that racism is part of everyday life\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t some covert thing it\u2019s been going on for over a year,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-left councillor also suggested that white people \u201cpotentially experienced benefits from their race\u201d and that was something the training aimed \u201cto tackle\u201d in schools, as well as teach how \u201cwhite privilege and institutional racism impacts our city\u2019s pupils and staff\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Clare also attempted to suggest that there was widespread support for this training because of the \u201clarge number of signatures\u201d on the city\u2019s BLM petition. That petition had 2,463 signatures out of Brighton\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brighton-hove.gov.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-01\/brighton-hove-city-council-plan-2020-2023.pdf\">290,395<\/a> population and, remarkably, the petition launched against the city teaching CRT in schools now has nearly twice as many signatories, the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10481909\/Education-Secretary-steps-concerning-racial-theories-taught-Brighton-Hove-schools.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brighton Council\u2019s deputy leader finished her interview by comparing the Holocaust to the racism people have experienced in recent years in Britain, as a way of justifying why it is acceptable to teach children about Critical Race Theory.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Hart of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dontdivideus.com\">Don\u2019t Divide Us<\/a> campaign group told the programme that forcing children to constantly \u201cponder their skin colour\u201d serves to disrupt their sense of \u201cwho they are\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt creates a sense of guilt and responsibility for white kids and a sense of victimhood on their black and brown friends,\u201d Hart said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s Department of Education is set to investigate Brighton and Hove city council after reports surfaced that up to 300 educators in the area are teaching \u201cconcerning\u201d CRT-style race &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}