Home Office: Schools/nurseries should monitor children for signs of 'extremism'

Gosh your kidding right!? That's really rude of them! Does your mum teach in a majority Muslim area or something?

No it's true. They went on school trips to a temple and a church and one kids was absolutely hysterical because he was so afraid of entering a church! And yeah it's a very multicultural and disadvantaged area

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Wow that's unacceptable on their part! If that's the case it does make you wonder what these particular children are taught at home then. And yeah I often drive through a deprived area to go to football match and you do see people act strangely, as in just different to everything I do. I guess it's more important to introduce these children to traditional ideals as it's obviously harder for then to assimilate

Ah yes always had fun hiding my copy of Mein Kampf from Miss Higginbottom in Year 2











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Yeah it is quite sad for some of them, but I suppose all these schools can do is to teach tolerance and acceptance. They do have Diwali Day, Eid Day, Chinese New Year and Christmas celebrations, so they are at least learning about other cultures!

If it's the families then this will work initially, but it will create a huge amount of tension, fear and ill-will, leading to greater problems and probably more extremism.

They couldn't have sounded more police state if they tried. This instance is obviously absurdly over the top but it's representative of the wider trend of using of terrorism as an excuse to exert control over the public.

Ah yes always had fun hiding my copy of Mein Kampf from Miss Higginbottom in Year 2

So if a toddler, for example, praised the KKK and used the 'n' word, you would expect the nursery staff upon hearing this just to ignore it? Not to tell anyone, even their head teacher? That sounds irresponsible to me.

The article doesn't suggest that anything more than informing someone senior and bringing the parents in would be done if a child spouted religious extremism in school. The difference is that it would be a legal duty not to ignore it, which I am frankly surprised is not already in place.

I imagine things would get more serious and other agencies would become involved if the parents had no problem with the language or if the language continued, but I would expect this in the case of extreme racist views as well.

This made me laugh but seriously, I got into trouble and my parents called into Primary school [year 3] because I got bored of reading school library books which I found too easy. When a teacher asked me what sort of books I liked to read, I answered famous people's biography's- maybe Malcolm X's or Hitlers. She said "Well, Hitlers evil so why would you want to read about him?" I answered back "You tell me he's evil but I want to make up my own mind"...

I was an eight year old kid who wanted to find out things for myself. My parents got called in to discuss my 'troubling' behaviour... wtf?

A toddler quite obviously hasn't got a clue what the KKK is so any kind of "praising" they do will just be repeating something someone said to them (most likely a mischievous older sibling) and pretty much the same goes for the 'n' word. If a toddler went around nursery using that kind of language then a normal teacher would probably want to have a word with the child's parents to let them know what's going on. That's fine. What we don't need is political leaders trying to create a massive terrorism scare by trying to act as if our toddlers are all at risk of becoming violent jihadists.

you must have missed the memo, you aren't allowed to think independently until Year 8

Would you be saying the same thing if there were large numbers of children repeatedly praising the KKK across the country? What about if many communities were forming in different places who were bringing up their children to be pro-KKK? Would you still be against any kind of government interference? Would you not be worried that much of the country was being brought up to believe in a racist ideology?

Firstly, there's aren't.

Secondly, there aren't.

You're getting worried about a fabricated crisis. I don't understand why people are getting so upset about this and I don't understand what's wrong with the regulations that are already in place. There's way too many silly legal frameworks in the teaching profession as it is. Let teachers to their jobs - I'd be much happier to trust teachers to make the right judgement in situations like these than politicians.

When you get things like supply teachers believing the Jews were behind 9/11 (as in my cousin's school), you should be worried.