{"id":519,"date":"2022-03-01T10:06:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T10:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/?p=519"},"modified":"2022-03-01T10:06:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T10:06:46","slug":"woke-wars-uk-teachers-told-english-exams-uphold-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/woke-wars-uk-teachers-told-english-exams-uphold-whiteness\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke Wars: UK Teachers Told English Exams &#8216;Uphold Whiteness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The Sunday Telegraph<\/em>\u00a0newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/02\/26\/gcse-english-exams-uphold-whiteness-teachers-told-national-bodys\/\">saw<\/a> the seminar on the supposed \u201clack of diversity in English teaching\u201d, which accused English examinations of \u201cnegating the apparent need to explicitly engage with issues pertaining to race and racism, representation in literature and society, while at the same time upholding whiteness under the guise of universality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NATE, which has roughly one-in-three English high schools under its umbrella, also pressed teachers to include whiteness studies, so-called white fragility, and so-called white privilege into English teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calvin Robinson, the GB News presenter and educator, said that the scheme was \u201cyet another example of political activists infiltrating the curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEnglish teachers should be teaching the beauty of the English language, not pushing hard-Left politics. It really is that simple,\u201d Robinson said, denouncing \u201cCritical Race Theory as a divisive ideology that is proven to be detrimental and unhelpful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe fact that many teachers\u2019 associations are still lobbying for its inclusion, despite government guidance, emphasises how insidious it truly is. The Department for Education needs to stamp down on this harmful rhetoric, post-haste,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Conservative Party, which has held office since 2010, currently with a clear parliamentary majority, has seemingly not only failed to make any progress on reining in far-left tendencies in schools and universities but has actually allowed such tendencies to significantly worsen.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Telegraph\u00a0newspaper saw the seminar on the supposed \u201clack of diversity in English teaching\u201d, which accused English examinations of \u201cnegating the apparent need to explicitly engage with issues pertaining &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Woke Wars: UK Teachers Told English Exams &#8216;Uphold Whiteness&#8217;\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/woke-wars-uk-teachers-told-english-exams-uphold-whiteness\/#more-519\" aria-label=\"More on Woke Wars: UK Teachers Told English Exams &#8216;Uphold Whiteness&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[22,21,23,16,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}