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A SCHOOL sparked fury by asking children to write an essay as a parent of a Manchester bomb victim on the topic: All terrorists should be forgiven. Year 7 youngsters were set the project after a class discussion on the outrage. On May 22, 2017, Bomber Salman Abedi killed 22 people, mostly children, and injured 139 at an Ariana Grande gig at the Manchester Arena. The shocking homework was set for Year 7 pupils at Bridlington School in the East Yorkshire town. It read: Imagine that you are a parent of one of the Manchester bombing victims. Write a response to the point of view that 'All terrorists should be forgiven'. ah the good old indoctrinate em young philosophy |
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@3mel | 4 January 20 |
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write a response TO the point of view... so they're being asked to be the parents of a victim and argue against the point that terrorists should be forgiven. |
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@bozzalad | 4 January 20 |
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@3mel 4 minutes write a response TO the point of view... so they're being asked to be the parents of a victim and argue against the point that terrorists should be forgiven. if you say so |
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@3mel | 4 January 20 |
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what you posted here says so
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@bozzalad | 4 January 20 |
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Headteacher Kate Parker-Randall apologised for any upset caused. She said it was important to ask kids challenging questions but added that it should have been put differently. The essay was set as part of a personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) lesson which was considering the consequences of crime and the aims of different punishments. The essay was intended to allow students to formulate their own views about whether hate or forgiveness is the best response to even such terrible crimes. I do understand that some people may find it difficult to understand why a school would ask students such a challenging question. However, having reflected on the matter we would in hindsight have posed the homework question in a different way. |
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@mikeymk | 4 January 20 |
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I heard about this, it's pretty poor. Can't see this being on the curriculum so questions need to be asked as to where this initiative came from.
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@propidol | 4 January 20 |
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You can't teach kids to think. Thats bang out of order.
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@piggle | 4 January 20 |
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What Mel said. Indoctrination is the absence of thought experiment
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@sisfreak2017 | 4 January 20 |
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Wondering, whats the faith of the teacher who's responsible for asking this task?
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@mok214 | 4 January 20 |
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There is already a topic about this, Bozzalad.
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@9362 | 5 January 20 |
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Stupid of the school to even consider having the Manchester Arena bombing as a subject
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@monster123 | 5 January 20 |
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The agenda of cultural marxism at its finest. To use the example as they have, to push their aim of promoting multiculturalism, is sickening.
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@monster123 | 5 January 20 |
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I wonder if a paradoxical effect could be implemented with an assignment, of , integration wont work
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@monster123 | 5 January 20 |
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I shall leave the words of a great prophet here - Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it
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@iilmadme | 5 January 20 |
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I wonder how it could have been put differently in her opinion
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@1bad_boy | 5 January 20 |
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Since when does school curriculim include terrorism and manipulating opinions on it? As a parent id be furious too |
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@kimjongl | 5 January 20 |
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Thought experiments are good for children, they should learn to think independently. But I somehow suspect there won't be much even handedness in the choices of provocative subject matter. I can't see 'The arguments for an against Mohamed being a paedophile' on offer. |
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@obi_jon | 5 January 20 |
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@ monster123 - 5.01.20 - 01:08am The agenda of cultural marxism at its finest. To use the example as they have, to push their aim of promoting multiculturalism, is sickening. So called 'cultural marxism' is nothing more than a slightly more modern update of the literal Nazi propaganda/conspiracy theory used by Hitler and co in the 1930s, they called it 'cultural bolshevism'. |
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@wakeup4 | 5 January 20 |
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@ bozzalad - 4.01.20 - 09:10pm A SCHOOL sparked fury by asking children to write an essay as a parent of a Manchester bomb victim on the topic: All terrorists should be forgiven. Year 7 youngsters were set the project after a class discussion on the outrage. On May 22, 2017, Bomber Salman Abedi killed 22 people, mostly children, and injured 139 at an Ariana Grande gig at the Manchester Arena. The shocking homework was set for Year 7 pupils at Bridlington School in the East Yorkshire town. It read: Imagine that you are a parent of one of the Manchester bombing victims. Write a response to the point of view that 'All terrorists should be forgiven'. ah the good old indoctrinate em young philosophy Sick sick c*nts great advert for home schooling |
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