3-Year-Olds Branded “Racist,” “Homophobic” Put In Government Database

digme

Over 30,000 British schoolchildren, some as young as three, have had their names registered on a government database and branded “racist” or “homophobic” for using playground insults, infractions that could impact their future careers.


http://theintelhub.com/2011/09/15/3-year-olds-branded-%E2%80%9Cracist%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Chomophobic%E2%80%9D-put-in-government-database/

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One youngster was accused of being racist for calling a boy ‘broccoli head’ and another was said to be homophobic for telling a teacher ‘this work is gay’.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037050/Racists-aged-THREE-Children-accused-bigotry-broccoli-head-calling.html#ixzz1Y4VBQTQ4

Saila

digme wrote: »

linky

try again..

Dangerous Man

Either this is a troll job or you fucked the link up. I actually hope it's the former because the latter doesn't bear thinking about really...

digme

it's true and i sorted the link.

mikemac

You're welcome OP
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037050/Racists-aged-THREE-Children-accused-bigotry-broccoli-head-calling.html

Teachers are branding thousands of children racist or homophobic following playground squabbles.
More than 20,000 pupils aged 11 or younger were last year put on record for so-called hate crimes such as using the word ‘gaylord’.
Some of them are even from nursery schools where children are no older than three.

One youngster was accused of being racist for calling a boy ‘broccoli head’ and another was said to be homophobic for telling a teacher ‘this work is gay’.
Two primary school children were reported for homophobia after quarrelling over a rubber and calling each other ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’.
Those youngsters reported for petty offences at nursery classes included four in the London borough of Tower Hamlets and three in Hertfordshire.

Although the Department for Education recently pledged to cut unnecessary red tape and bureaucracy, it has given no guidance on such ‘offences’.
In total, 34,000 nursery, primary and secondary pupils were effectively classed as bigots because of anti-bullying rules.
The school can keep the pupil’s name and ‘crime’ on file.
The record can be passed from primaries to secondaries or when a pupil moves between schools.
And if schools are asked for a pupil reference by a future employer or a university, the record could be used as the basis for it, meaning the pettiest of incidents has the potential to blight a child for life.
Figures for the year 2009-10 were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the civil liberties group the Manifesto Club.
Adrian Hart, of the Manifesto Club, called for the Government to roll back the policy of hate speech reporting in schools. He said: ‘Children need space to play and to learn the meaning of words, without being reported to the local education authority.
‘These policies are an inappropriate intervention into playground life, and undermine teachers’ ability to set a moral example to children and to teach them right from wrong.
‘There is a world of difference between racist abuse and primary school playground spats.’
The figures show 34,000 racist incidents reported by schools to local education authorities in England and Wales. Of these, 20,000 were at primary schools.

The Daily Mail previously reported on teachers keeping records of pupils behaviour in January
Figures for 2008-9 – obtained earlier this year – showed 29,659 reported incidents.
Last year, Birmingham City Council had the highest number, with 1,090 racist incidents, followed by 672 in Leeds and 567 in Hertfordshire. In West Berkshire there were just 15.
In the majority of cases, the ‘racist’ spats involved name-calling.
Schools were required by the Labour government in 2002 to monitor and report all racist incidents to their local authority. Teachers must name the alleged perpetrator and victim and spell out the incident and the punishment. Local authority records show the type of incident but not the name of the child involved.
LEAs are expected to monitor the number of incidents, look for patterns and plan measures to tackle any perceived problems.
Heads who send in ‘nil’ returns are criticised for ‘under-reporting’.
A DfE spokesman said: ‘Parents expect that heads take a very tough line on any poor behaviour and stamp out bullying – that’s why we’re toughening up teachers’ disciplinary powers.
‘It is down to schools themselves to exercise their own common sense and professional judgment about the best way of taking on bullies.’

You can edit this down yourself OP, I just got the article as you were accused of trolling

MrStuffins

It's in the Daily Mail so we know it's not at all fabrication or exaggeration!

Dangerous Man

digme wrote: »

it's true and i sorted the link.

No offence but I really would have preferred it was a troll job - stuff like this is just depressing.

joshrogan

But it's ok for other broccoli heads to call each other that!? I don't know these days I just don't know... World has gone PC mad.

johnners2981

this is crazy, who are these people that make these crazy decisions?

Fizman

'Broccoli head'.

Genius! When I was 3 I didn't even know what a head was, let alone broccoli or any comparisons to it!

Kids these days eh!

WindSock

Broccoli head, that's classic.

hatrickpatrick

"Great" Britain: Bringing us an Orwellian police state nightmare since 2001.

stoneill

Obviously the teachers are out of touch - any five minute conversation with kids now will throw up all sorts of gay antics.
Your dinner is gay, that film is gay, the table is gay, the dog is gay, the window is gay, your car is gay, those shoes are gay, the sea is gay, the dog is gay,
( I said that twice as I think he is), your shirt is gay, your answers in your homework are gay, your ma is gay, that small pebble is gay.

Mena

Employer: Hi Mr School manager, I need a reference on Johnny
School Manager: When he was 3 the little bigot called someone a broccoli head!
Employer: Like I give a "£$^% !

This being said, I'd agree with most of the other comments. 1984 et al.

Even the Vietnamese kids I teach know and use the word gay.. That's how little the word means by now.

The Scientician

Deleted User wrote: »

Even the Vietnamese kids I teach know and use the word gay.. That's how little the word means by now.

Ok the term is changing meaning but for years (maybe even still) Irish meant stupid.

It's all grand being heterosexual and thinking the word gay is fair game as a funny, insulting term, but part of its power presumably derives from homophobia.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Fizman wrote: »

'Broccoli head'.

Genius! When I was 3 I didn't even know what a head was, let alone broccoli or any comparisons to it!

Kids these days eh!

WindSock wrote: »

Broccoli head, that's classic.

You're both going on the registe, you know that? And a week's detention!

MagicMarker

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

You're both going on the registe, you know that? And a week's detention!

Shut up cabbage face.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

MagicMarker wrote: »

Shut up cabbage face.

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