Monday, January 17, 2022



Frosty reception for British school that banned pupils from wearing ‘status symbol’ winter coats

Parents say Bishop Heber High School’s policy, under which pupils have had their jackets confiscated, is ‘nonsensical’ and ‘ludicrous’

A school has banned children from wearing their own coats outside in case they “push boundaries” with expensive “status” coats.

Pupils at Bishop Heber High School, in Malpas, Cheshire, are only allowed to wear a branded school jacket on school grounds.

The school says that if pupils were allowed to wear their own coats, it would “erode the great relationships we have with the students” because they “might push boundaries” and wear coats and hoodies than undermine standards.

The school’s "behaviour and discipline policy" states that: “Students may wear any coat to and from school. However, these must be removed once the school day starts (9am). Only ‘Heber’ school coats may be worn throughout the school day (until 3.30pm).”

It adds that students who repeatedly wear non-uniform coats will have them confiscated.

But some parents criticised the ‘nonsensical’ and ‘ludicrous’ policy and one mother told Cheshire Live: “They confiscated his [my son’s] coat yesterday - outside - which I thought was absolutely ludicrous. He has asthma, which he is on constant medication for, so getting cold does him no good whatsoever.”

She added that her son was put into isolation as punishment and the uniform policy was “nonsensical” and “common-sense” should prevail.

Other parents said their children had been left “absolutely frozen” and that school policies are “absolutely archaic”.

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Woke School District Pays Tens of Thousands for a Kindergarten to “Disrupt Whiteness”

Want your 6-year-old to learn basic reading, writing, and math skills in kindergarten rather than the insane ramblings of delusional critical race theorists? Well, if you send your kids to a kindergarten Hayward Unified School District, a school district in the Bay Area, you’re out of luck; they’ll be learning ridiculous CRT concepts whether you like it or not.

News on that comes from an excellent article in The Federalist, which reports that HUSD “dedicated $123,000 for a variety of critical race theory training programs for staff and students that expressed extreme sentiments. This expenditure included an organization called “Woke Kindergarten” that received $57,000 to teach public school teachers and staff how to “disrupt whiteness.”‘ How nice.

The Federalist then provides a link to a contract in which the Board of Education hired a company called “Race-Work” to provide training and sessions for “Student Leadership Anti-racism Movement (SLAM) Program and staff professional development sessions for equity and AB/AR.”

The contract, worth $50k, provided that students and teachers were to “learn how to use Woke Kindergarten’s resources and pedagogical approaches in practice as a way to disrupt whiteness” and “white dominant/settler colonial narratives.” SLAM is a program meant to “empower and mobilize them as catalysts for change through an anti-racist leadership youth movement.”

Remember, this is for an elementary school. While it would be bad enough if college students were being taught this trash, it’s young elementary school students that are having this toxic nonsense being pushed on them relentlessly by the CRT-possessed wokies.

But that’s just the beginning. The Federalist also reports that “A separate contract with Woke Kindergarten revealed that the district paid an additional $7,000 for them to implement learning practices through an ‘abolitionist lens.”’

They did so through pushing videos on the kindergarten pupils that fawned over Stacey Abrams, presented pictures of the Jan. 6th trespassers alongside the few images of BLM “protests” that didn’t turn into riots, and pushed the “defund the police” slogan. Sounds difference from my kindergarten.

And what is “Woke Kindergarten?” Well, as the name implies, it’s a far-left organization full of insane people that want to push leftie propaganda on young children. As the Federalist reports:

The organization’s Instagram account boasts the same extremism, with one post encouraging children to support the “eradication” of America’s borders, which are allegedly “invisible man-made ideas that colonizers created.” In another post, the organization’s founder complains that critical media coverage amounts to far-right violence.

As the name implies, the organization was made to indoctrinate young children into left-wing politics. One post explains that Woke Kindergarten began when its founder led a protest in what appears to be a kindergarten classroom where children made protest signs and chanted “no Donald Trump.”

Yikes. I remember learning about reading and writing in kindergarten, along with messing around on the playground. Not participating in anti-GOP protests.

Still, that’s not all. The insanely woke school district also hired an organization called Quetzal Education Services which, The Federalist reports, “specializes in injecting CRT into math courses with its anti-racist math workshop series.” Now even math must be woke.

What all that shows is that schools, especially in blue states, are pushing ever crazier propaganda on their students. Without men like DeSantis to watch over them and crack down on the nonsense, the leftie teachers will get crazier and crazier. They must be stopped before the youth are indoctrinated beyond the point of no return.

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Australian Attorney general defends religious schools’ right to sack teachers for views on sexuality

Michaelia Cash’s department has defended religious schools’ right to sack teachers for their views on sexuality and appeared to confirm safeguards for gay students will be delayed until after the religious discrimination bill.

The attorney general’s department’s submission to two inquiries states that changes to the Sex Discrimination Act will wait for a further review 12 months after the bill passes, despite a purported deal with four Liberal MPs to prevent expulsion of gay students at the same time, in exchange for their support of the religious discrimination bill.

Cash also personally walked back her reported commitment in December after a backlash from religious groups including the Australian Christian Lobby and Christian Schools Australia which threatened to scupper their support for the bill over the deal.

Liberal MPs Katie Allen, Dave Sharma, Angie Bell and Fiona Martin claimed they had won Cash’s agreement to remove section 38(3) from the Sex Discrimination Act, which allows schools to discriminate on sexuality and gender grounds.

The department’s submission reiterates that “the religious discrimination bill does not affect the operation of the Sex Discrimination Act”.

“In particular, the existing exemptions for religious educational institutions provided in section 38 of that Act are not affected.”

The department said religious exemptions will be considered by the Australian Law Reform Commission inquiry, to report back 12 months after the bill passes.

The department noted although the bill does not affect schools ability to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation it “would allow a religious school to consider a person’s religious beliefs about issues such as sexuality” where it is part of the beliefs of the school.

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