Thread by @karamballes

🧵Saw this story and I think @SianGriffiths6 has missed a piece of relevent information that she might not be aware of that leads this story to Toby Youngs FreeSpeechUnion and Birbalsingh the Social Mobility Czar

Is the mother in the story the same Clare Page of Don't Divide Us?

DDU are partnered to Academy of Ideas, Campaign for Common Sense, Equiano Project and Free Speech Union

Talk about division whilst going out creating it, often misrepresenting what is going on in schools to fit their "Marxist indoctrination" narrative

3/ So forgive me for wondering if assertions are being made after things have been taken out of context or misrepresented

They can talk about "activist agendas", but why aren't the "anti-woke" culture warriors described as activists with their own agendas

4/ The demanding to scrutinise lesson plans is part of Don't Divide Us' strategy, the group are encouraging parents not to trust their children's schools, that they need to be challenging and scrutinising schools

This is divisive

5/ The Schools response seems measured

Only one parent complained after they had a parents forum discussion about what was being taught

6/ Don't Divide Us provide template letters for parents to send to schools, for a group that doesn't want division it's a pretty confrontational opening letter

7/ If this is the same Clare Page...

8/ DDU provide a guide for parents on how to recognise critical race theory in schools, they cast a pretty wide net

Same strategy as Koch backed groups in the US
dontdivideus.com/guide-for-pare…

9/ Parents should be particularly worried about urban areas with ethnic minorities
"Likely to have members of staff who are deeply committed to CRT influenced view of education as a form of activism to change society"

Let's have a witch hunt

10/ Collect information, scrutinise the behaviour system

11/ Parents should provide their own reading lists, and make suggestions about what should be taught about racism

They should also recommend schools inside DDU and Equiano Project into schools

12/ Birbalsingh says children aren't taught respect for teachers, yet at the same time she's involved in DDU and Equiano Project which says it's "likely" there are radical lefties in urban schools

This is the last thing school leaders need right now
#edutwitter

13/ We never get headlines like

"Right Wing 'antiwoke' activists with political links seek to police and rewrite school curriculums under threats of legal action"

In Times, but that's what this is

14/ But the Times is part of the machinery of Culture wars

Why tag these two particular activists groups into the tweet?

15/ DfE now advertising for its Free Speech Champion position, a position suggested by Toby Youngs free speech union

Not just about preventing cancel culture but enforcing alternative views are platformed

16/ Long Thread looking at the recent approach to free speech and impartiality in education