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  • Denjin@feddit.uktoHistory Memes@lemmy.worldsupers
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    22 hours ago

    Although the Faragists are pushing back against the perceived woke-ism of criticising British imperialism and colonialism in general, even back in the 80s and 90s when I went to school there was an overall negative slant in teaching and textbooks.

    It definitely needs to be stronger and louder for sure but it’s simply not accurate to say anymore (though the tories and Reform certainly want to whitewash things and show only the “good” bits).







  • Not really the incident school wise but personally was for me. This is back in the days before things like dyspraxia and ADHD were regularly identified and so I was therefore a disruptive nightmare in several classes where I wasn’t stimulated correctly. Professionals were brought into the school (at great expense I’m sure) to try and analyse the bad behaviour.

    It was in a meeting between several teachers, supervisors and my mum (who was herself a head teacher of a different school) and she asked why it was that I didn’t act up in maths or English or science and it was only in music, RE and geography I couldn’t be controlled in and maybe I wasn’t the problem but it was certain teachers weren’t actually very good at controlling classes or providing a stimulating enough environment then politely told the school to get bent and we went to get ice cream.

    The actual incident at the school was the music teacher Mr Mann getting caught masturbating in the classroom between lessons by a TA and several students.