{"id":1296189,"date":"2022-02-14T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T17:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1296189"},"modified":"2022-02-14T12:53:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T17:53:16","slug":"education-not-indoctrination-uk-minister-demands-schools-uphold-political-impartiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/education-not-indoctrination-uk-minister-demands-schools-uphold-political-impartiality\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Education, Not Indoctrination&#039;: UK Minister Demands Schools Uphold Political Impartiality"},"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\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin 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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-1219953215-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Schoolchildren need to be afforded the ability to make up their own minds on political matters rather than being \u201cindoctrinated\u201d into particular positions by teachers, Education Secretary Nadhim Zawahi said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Amid growing concerns about far-left ideologies such as Critical Race Theory being pushed upon British schoolchildren in school districts such as Brighton, Conservative MP and the government\u2019s Education Secretary, Nadhim Zawahi called on schools to maintain impartiality.<\/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>Zawahi is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/07\/uk-government-to-investigate-crt-style-anti-white-lessons-in-brighton-schools\/\">reportedly investigating<\/a>&nbsp;Brighton and Hove city council over teachers being coached up on the latest leftist views on race in&nbsp;\u201cRacial Literacy 101\u201d courses that told teachers that children are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/31\/diversity-training-tells-teachers-that-kids-arent-racially-innocent\/\">not&nbsp;\u201cracially innocent<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In an open letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/17634521\/schools-must-not-teach-activist-propaganda\/\">written<\/a> in <em>The Sun<\/em> newspaper on Sunday, the education secretary \u2014 who is supposedly in charge of England\u2019s national curriculum \u2014 stressed the importance of schools being free from political proselytising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren need to form their own views at the same time as they learn to respect those of others,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThis is how we prepare young people to take their place as a well-balanced and tolerant member of society.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThat is why parents and carers need to be able to trust schools to be totally impartial.&nbsp;They need to be confident that their children can learn about political issues and begin to form their own independent opinions, without being influenced by the personal views of those teaching them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo school should be encouraging young people to pin their colours to a particular political mast\u2026&nbsp;Put simply, it means education, not indoctrination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The education secretary admitted that while \u201clegal duties on political impartiality have been in place for many years,\u201d the government has not clearly defined the perameters of play when discussion contensious polical issues \u201clike the legacy of the British Empire or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a veiled comment on the Marxist Black Lives Matter movemet, Zawahi said that when teaching lessons surrounding racism, teachers should impress upon children that it has \u201cno place in our society\u201d but should refrain from endorsing organisations \u201cthat have widely contested political aims or views.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that to combat the alleged confusion of schools surrounding political impartiality, guidance will be published for teachers next week by the government to prevent such indoctrination from occurring.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Schools Should Stop Teaching \u2018White Privilege\u2019 as a Fact, Says Education Secretary Zahawi <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MinsDPb9Ht\">https:\/\/t.co\/MinsDPb9Ht<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1452218308141355011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The op-ed from Zawahi comes amid ongoing controversy surrounding the teaching of Critical Race Theory in the Brighton and Hove council.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In January, it was reported that the Green Party-controlled city council had embarked on conducting seminars for teachers in which they were told that children as young as three and five-years-old could be the beneficiaries of so-called \u201cwhite privilege\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview earlier this month, Green Party Councillor Hannah Clare questioned why the teaching of CRT principles was seen as controversial, claiming that the Marxist doctrine merely seeks to \u201ctalk about racism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She said that because&nbsp;white people \u201cpotentially experienced benefits from their race\u201d it was important for teachers \u201cto tackle\u201d how &nbsp;\u201cwhite privilege and institutional racism impacts our city\u2019s pupils and staff\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Deputy Leader and Chair of the Children, Young People and Skills Committee for the city council went on to say:&nbsp;\u201cThis isn\u2019t some covert thing it\u2019s been going on for over a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Critical Race Theory creeping its way into the UK education system, there has been a longstanding push to \u201cdecolonise the cirriculum\u201d by leftist educators in response to the alleged deliterious impacts of the British Empire and slavery \u2014 a practice first abolished by Great Britain, which took great pains to stamp out slave trades throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>Targets of the woke decolonising drive have included&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/04\/26\/white-saviour-isaac-newton-benefited-colonial-era-activity-claims-left-wing-university-report\/\">Issac Newton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/03\/29\/woke-oxford-music-profs-claim-western-sheet-music-complicity-white-supremacy-report\/\">sheet music<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/02\/06\/woke-university-pushes-decolonised-curriculum-to-replace-medieval-english-courses\/\">Medieval English literature<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/06\/09\/cancel-the-queen-oxford-students-vote-to-remove-colonial-portrait-of-queen-elizabeth\/\">the Queen<\/a>, Charles Darwin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/05\/10\/charles-darwins-theory-of-evolution-promotes-white-male-supremacy-claims-woke-academics\/\">theory of evolution<\/a>, and even lectures on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/07\/12\/decolonise-covid-university-to-teach-anti-racist-study-of-viruses\/\">tropical viruses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nigel Farage: \u2018Marxist\u2019 Educators Want White People to \u2018Hate Themselves and Their Country\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TZFeLxVB4F\">https:\/\/t.co\/TZFeLxVB4F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1452928651247472650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schoolchildren need to be afforded the ability to make up their own minds on political matters rather than being \u201cindoctrinated\u201d into particular positions by 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