Write a letter to terrorists! Children told to ‘respect’ killers in new teaching aid

by Guest Wed May 31, 2017 12:54 pm

A NEW teaching aid that recommends schoolchildren as young as seven “write a letter to a terrorist” to help understand their motives has been condemned as “dangerous and misguided”.

The book, Talking About Terrorism, published weeks before the Manchester Arena atrocity, describes the indiscriminate mass murder of innocent members of the public as a “type of war”.
It tells primary age children that terrorists kill people because they believe they are being treated “unfairly and not shown respect”.

It gives examples of “terrorists” whose ideas then turn out to be right: “The Suffragettes used violence and were called terrorists,,,,” it stated.
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“Today many people think of them as brave women and admire their struggle for the right to vote.”

his a crackpot idea based on the misguided notion that primary school children must engage with, and show 'respect' for, religious fanatics who are seeking to kill them
Chris McGovern - Campaign for Real Education chairman

In an activity recommended for pupils aged seven to 11, teachers are urged to “invite children to write a letter to a terrorist. If they could ask a terrorist six questions, what would they be?”

The book, published by Brilliant Publications and containing a foreword by Peter Wanless, the chief executive of the NSPCC, has been slammed by critics who say it is potentially dangerous.

Chris McGovern, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, said the letter task would confuse and potentially upset pupils.

He said: “This a crackpot idea based on the misguided notion that primary school children must engage with, and show “respect” for, religious fanatics who are seeking to kill them.

“It is part of the “British Values” agenda that is being forced on schools by Ofsted and the educational establishment.

“The primary school classroom is not the place to humanise terrorism by ‘pretend dialogue’.”

In trying to help children “understand” terrorists’ motives, the book invites sympathy for the killers, critics claim.

And by invoking the Suffragettes and Nelson Mandela, it leads children to question whether terrorism might be justifiable, they say.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/810115/school-children-told-respect-killers-teaching-aid-talking-about-terrorism

Not only is this appalling, but in no way did the terrorism in South Africa or the Suffragette movement cause change. In both cases the terrorism was wrong and has no justification. The movements themselves to free Apartheid and have women's rights is a just cause, but in no way is the deliberate murder of innocents based off a cause in any right.

In both cases public opinion helped sway change and it does a disservice to Mandela, who only committed sabotage and not murder. His sabotage still being wrong.

by eddie Wed May 31, 2017 1:00 pm

It's just the same old same old; children being brainwashed into ridiculous human being robots.

That's the vision of the future.

by Guest Wed May 31, 2017 1:05 pm

eddie wrote:It's just the same old same old; children being brainwashed into ridiculous human being robots.

That's the vision of the future.

Its ridiculous and can you imagine UK kids now asked to imagine writing a letter to the terrorist of the Manchester bombing?

by Syl Wed May 31, 2017 1:20 pm

Far better for children to be taught a minority of people hate, the majority are good, and to write a letter to the victims of terrorists showing empathy and support against evil.

by HoratioTarr Wed May 31, 2017 1:30 pm

What kind of 'Call me Mike' twat even gets that published?

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