Category: education

• November 14, 2019

  Playing the race card

  In a recent interview the “Head of Britain’s ‘strictest school” claimed that black children were using the ‘race card’ when in trouble. The rhetoric is that of an aging, white, conservative male trying to dismiss the divisive legacy of the British empire but the words belong to a youngish “women of colour” (pictured above). I wonder […]
• October 17, 2018

  Why the Government needs PREVENT training.

  

  Figures released today show that hate crime has risen in the last couple of years.  This comes as no surprise to anyone who has undertaken PREVENT training recently. PREVENT is part of the Government’s counter terrorism initiatives which aims to prevent people from turning to terrorism. The hypocracy of the iniative however, is hard to […]
• June 30, 2016

  Was there ever a time before Scapegoat Britain? Part 1

  

  At first it seemed ridiculous to believe that people would believe that all of England’s problems were the result of the EU and of course those “terrible immigrants”.   We laughed about it in the staff room.  The same staff room where for the past year, disgruntled colleagues have  viciously blamed and attacked the Head […]
• March 17, 2016

  That time I almost burst into tears on the treadmill..

  

  Music pumping in my ears, feet pounding away on the cross trainer, I gaze up from the flashing dashboard to the row of televisions hanging from the gym ceiling.  Ivory poachers in Gabon, a posh gardener in a tight squeeze, the usual random something or nothing on London Live all bid to grab my attention with […]