Diversity Equity Inclusion
EDI Progressivism against parents
EDI Progressivism against parents
If you are an aggressor seeking to conquer other lands, the best route is unlikely to be to fight a bloody war. It is much better if the enemy, whom you seek to subjugate, surrenders. Best scenario of all is if the people you have made your enemy do not even realise they are being conquered, so you can swiftly and quietly establish your rule over them. That is how parents have been outmanoeuvred in the swift capture of the Educational Establishment by the Progressive Left.
Don’t Divide Us: Anti-racism used to hold that Britain was ok, but with some problems of racism. The new Anti-Racism is the complete opposite. It is about using minorities to trash the majority culture.
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert: I have been a teacher most of my life and I do believe teachers and parents have the same interests fundamentally but unfortunately, in the political context we are in, parents have really got to start taking an interest in what schools are teaching their children. Go in, ask what is being taught in assemblies, ask to see the materials they are using.
Born to Indian parents, Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, Director of Don’t Divide Us, campaigns for impartial education. She was invited to speak at a large education conference last September. She was disinvited a week before the conference because some delegates and speakers complained that her view that Britain is not a racist country made them feel unsafe. The panel discussion she had been due to speak on was titled: “Indoctrination in Education – How we can avoid it”. Clearly they do not want to avoid it. That is the state of education in Britain today. Mainstream tolerant views that most parents hold are deemed unacceptable by the EDI Progressives who have captured education in our country.
Don’t Divide Us has produced a useful list of ideological groups that are accessing schools to teach Critical Race Theory to our children. Download the report here
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert: The thing that really gets me, as a teacher, is just the intellectual and imaginative impoverishment of what this is doing to the curriculum. These 3rd party organisations are going in through an open door without scrutiny and telling children, if they are white, that their country is terrible and they have an unspoken sin to be ashamed of, and telling people who are non-white that if they want to succeed, no matter how hard they try, their success will depend on someone vacating a place for them. It is really corrosive and damaging. You cannot educate in that situation, because you have people stepping on eggshells, and to educate you have to be free to ask questions.
Told he would not pass his teacher training course, because he found Diversity training unhelpful
Teacher trainee James Bland gives his evidence to the Commission into Discrimination against Christians.
After a successful career in business, James Bland decided to change path and pursue a second career in teaching in his 50s, to fulfil a desire he had long held to teach, but not been able to realise. He joined an intake at teacher training college that was 90% female, mostly in their twenties. He saw that he might bring a bit of diversity to this profession. On his teacher training course he had to attend a Diversity Day, given by a bearded man who identified as a woman. The day covered the range of protected characteristics, diversity and inclusion. Characteristics like disability were covered in a matter of minutes and for the rest of the day the lecturer gave his view of gender self-identity with no consideration to other viewpoints and no awareness that this was a very new ideology. Leaving at the end of the day with a few classmates, James remarked privately that the day seemed a waste of time. At the time he sensed that the others probably shared his view. The next day he was summoned in by the course director and told he would not pass the course, with his views. He gave up his dream to teach and resigned from the course.
In 2020 new Relationships and Sex Education guidance was produced by the Department for Education. The senior civil servant at the DfE at the time was Permanent Secretary Jonathan Slater. He was awarded the accolade of Senior Champion by Stonewall, which had a significant input into the guidance for our children’s sex education. Many organisations have now cut their ties with Stonewall on account of its extremism.
Stonewall’s new annual report reveals that at least 300 schools in England are still signed up to its “champions scheme”. The charity requests schools to use “they” instead of he or she and “children” or “young people” instead of boys and girls.
Harvard Law Professor on the corrupting influence of DEI Positionality Statements
Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy on the DEI requirement for positionality statements, groupthink and academics’ desire to put their commitment to DEI on their resume to ensure their employability.
52 percent of faculty who evaluated a diversity statement advocating greater viewpoint diversity would not recommend that candidate for advancement. That means advocating for diversity of thought and opinion could often actually hurt your employment prospects in academia.
In England, the Religious Test Act of 1673 made it a requirement that government civil and militaryoffice holders should take an oath denying the Catholic Mass. This was abolished 195 years agounder George IV. Oxford University only dropped its religious test in 1871. Today, academia is leadingthe way in reintroducing religious tests in the form of Diversity Statements.
Steven Pinker, Harvard Professor of Psychology: We would like universities to get rid of mandatory Diversity Statements for academic job applicants, which can serve to either turn a whole generation of applicants into liars or weed out anyone who disagrees with a certain narrow orthodoxy.
Are parents content for senior teachers to be polishing their curricula vitae with references to their promotion of DEI, at the expense of our children’s education?