🧵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?
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
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
So UsForThem whove claimed they definitely have no connection to the Great Barrington Declarations authors have only gone and written a book with the help of the Great Barrington Declaration authors
80-90% of 4-5 year olds arrive to primary school in pushchairs? #edutwitter
Early Years wasn't included in Jan 2021 lockdown, it's been two years since they went back to normal (besides large absences of staff and children due to sickness)
Moylan hates "unelected bureaucrats" in the EU but as an unelected peer he thinks unelected judges overturning abortion rights against popular opinion as the height of democracy
Lillico gets Moylan to hold his drink as he claims abortion clinics are comparable to Nazi gas chambers
Tim Montgomerie when proposals were initially leaked
Banks are only a part of the business world SMEs are the engines of economic growth
Banks aren't always good for other businesses look at how they facilitated asset stripping after 2008 crash
Give workers more money and they'll spend it, where does that money go? Back to the rich