School defends its decision to employ BNP candidate

All questions of this teacher aside, I think it is more an indictment of the education system, then of one bigoted teacher. The entire system is antiquated; a throw-back to when most people worked in factories. School is a glorified baby-sitting service, a warehouse where we plop down our children for a goodly portion of their young lives. It lacks vitality and verve. School takes young, pliable, energetic, curious minds and dulls them. Kids become oppressed by the deadly atmosphere in schools, and hence, then become open to the likes of all kinds of skewed beliefs. Nature hates a vacuum, and so, in the vacuous environs of a school, the eager minds of our beautiful children become easily impressed with the views of the intolerant.

If “thinking” were the hallmark of education, instead of time-weary repetition, then our children might actually stand a chance of rebuffing the more sinister influences that they might face in their lives.

Do I think this man should be in a class room surfing the net? Hell no, not anymore than I would like Mr. Glitter being in the class room. But, for every person whose true colours are revealed there are many more who ply their bullshyt unnoticed. It is for this reason that we must arm our children with more than just an out-of-date learning system, and take an active interest in them as people. If we see our children for the miracles they are, the emphasis of that alone would foster a more balanced, useful, and spiritually enlivening education then any school room ever would; no matter how well-intended.

In case you might wonder, I am not casting aspersions toward teachers, only the system. There are many fine teachers, mentors even, who do make a difference. However, in the face of the intransigent model we have become used to as “learning,” their task is daunting one, and mostly a losing affair.

Cheers,
Stephen1

i wonder how many muslim schools are taught by people with extreme views. even if this man is a bad taste in the mouth to some, he has the right to a personal and private life too. if thay sack him they are being elitist,and undemocratic in the least,. also if they sack him on what criteria would they base his successors job. his qualifications ? his political choices and private life ? should he be catholic, baptist, cleric, serial killer ? when do we stop employing teachers and begin employing politicised government speak robots. where our children are taught by centrally governed, computer profiled teachers, in other words thought police teachers . bigger brother better equipped to eliminate you,as enemies of the state. who’s got your details ?. who do you vote for ? do you have credit ?are you politically active in your area, and most importantly which party you vote for. all things that could eliminate or choose you, according to the governments wish. are you thinking what im thinking ? :lol: :shock: :lol: :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

When I was about 8 or 9, in the 1960’s, we had an overtly racist teacher who had previously been a PE instructor in the Army. We had two boys on an exchange visit from Kenya. This teacher overtly told us (when the Kenyan boys were not in the room) that he hated blacks and didn’t see why he should be nice to them. Mocking people was his greatest weapon and he was always setting the Kenyan boys up in class to make fools of themselves. We had an Indian boy too, but the teacher explained that Indians were OK, he quite liked them!

But on thinking about things more, I realise that this teacher, who’d been in the Army, as I said, might quite possibly have had dealings with Mao-Mao guerillas in Kenya during the 1950s. That might have coloured his opinion. Anyway, he was a thoroughly horrid man in all other respects, regardless of whether he was racist or not.