Friday, October 13, 2006
Insidious racism it's everywhere.
The Daily Mail reports here on a 14 year old school girl who was: "arrested by police for racism after refusing to sit with a group of Asian students because some of them did not speak English."
The report further reveals that: ""Only one could speak English, so she had to tell that one what to do so she could explain in their language. Then she sat me with them and said 'Discuss'."
According to Codie, the five - four boys and a girl - then began talking in a language she didn't understand, thought to be Urdu, so she went to speak to the teacher.
"I said 'I'm not being funny, but can I change groups because I can't understand them?' But she started shouting and screaming, saying 'It's racist, you're going to get done by the police'." "
How pathetic, but guess what? "A complaint was made to a police officer based full-time at the school, and more than a week after the incident on September 26 she was taken to Swinton police station and placed under arrest."
Why are police officers based full-time at a school? I mean if a school needs a full-time police presence surely there's some deep rooted problem?
Anyway nothing has come from all this nonsense, but it's a disgrace that the schoolgirl in question has been put through all this. My view on it is that it's probably to do with so called "competency" based interviews and the teacher was looking for a promotion or similar, but realised they didn't have any "dealing with racism" examples. They then engineered this situation by deliberately placing the girl with students who couldn't speak English to see what would happen. Hey presto! Just like magic the problem for the "competency" based interview solved.
What we need are quotas of non-English speaking students in each class as by forcing these two extremes together we'll promote diversity.
The report further reveals that: ""Only one could speak English, so she had to tell that one what to do so she could explain in their language. Then she sat me with them and said 'Discuss'."
According to Codie, the five - four boys and a girl - then began talking in a language she didn't understand, thought to be Urdu, so she went to speak to the teacher.
"I said 'I'm not being funny, but can I change groups because I can't understand them?' But she started shouting and screaming, saying 'It's racist, you're going to get done by the police'." "
How pathetic, but guess what? "A complaint was made to a police officer based full-time at the school, and more than a week after the incident on September 26 she was taken to Swinton police station and placed under arrest."
Why are police officers based full-time at a school? I mean if a school needs a full-time police presence surely there's some deep rooted problem?
Anyway nothing has come from all this nonsense, but it's a disgrace that the schoolgirl in question has been put through all this. My view on it is that it's probably to do with so called "competency" based interviews and the teacher was looking for a promotion or similar, but realised they didn't have any "dealing with racism" examples. They then engineered this situation by deliberately placing the girl with students who couldn't speak English to see what would happen. Hey presto! Just like magic the problem for the "competency" based interview solved.
What we need are quotas of non-English speaking students in each class as by forcing these two extremes together we'll promote diversity.
