Villiers School in Limerick creates bizarre video to “educate” its pupils

https://twitter.com/irishinquiry/status/1706762158481285437?s=46&t=LbNX7bxyxl_3B8DnynfQnQ

This popped up on my Twitter/X feed. It seems to me to be a very strange & toxic piece of indoctrination. This school is like Wilson’s Hospital School, an expensive private boarding/day school run on a modern Protestant ethos.

seanrambo87

Cultural appropriation. Reverse racism?

Very creepy video.

It’s like out of some black comedy, (or am I allowed to say that?) or a scene from the handmaid’s tale.

AllForIt

There used to be a very good thread for this type of thing.

But yeah it is totaly fecked up, not much more to say about it really. Most likely there is some white middle class lefty who wears big rimmed colorful glasses behind it all.

I think we should find out exactly who is behind it and ridicule them relentlessly.

Oh and could the black girl please return that accent please. Thank you.

Jequ0n

Seriously **** weird

thomas 123

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUpbOliTHJY

jaysus

BlueSkyDreams

How are we meant to be inclusive when we are told to segregate cultures.

I assume the old practice of writing out lines is alive and well in that school and goes like this:

I should have known but I had to learn

I should have known but I had to learn

I should have known but I had to learn

BlueSkyDreams

Perhaps Adele will play at Longitude with braids in her hair.

The white girl on stage will have them, but the white girls in the crowd will not.

Gatling

This Americanisation of everything needs to stop , creepy, stupid and white people have braided here long before Africans appeared in Europe and America

Esho

People and cultures mix, it's just a fact.

Anyone remember the how a black girl in the US , with no Irish connections, got crap over "cultural appropriation" for her love of Irish dancing?

Coveney , Martin or Varadkar came out and said "Fair play to her". I was impressed by the rare utterances of common sense.

This is utter, right - on BS.

" I should have known" - how?....Not everyone remembers how silly David Beckham looked when he got canerows !

j2

Braids originated in Celtic cultures, so really it should really be the other way around. Or neither way around and just stop moaning about every single fcuking thing, ideally.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121165253#Comment_121165253

Exactly, neither way around, you only go into rabbit holes trying stupid experiments like that.

Astartes

Think I ruptured my spleen from cringing at that video

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121165253#Comment_121165253

Not really. It's just hair, the chances of many different groups coming up with the same idea were pretty good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_(hairstyle)

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121165267#Comment_121165267

I thought it was a well-made parody video at first

jojofizzio

Why are the girls dressed like nuns?

rowantree18

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121165074#Comment_121165074

We call them plaits

Celts wore them

Vikings wore them

Picts wore them

Visigoths wore them

Etc

I wore them. As required by the nuns

Gatling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121165520#Comment_121165520

They are in a cult

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121165520#Comment_121165520

That’s why I made the reference to visions of the Handmaid’s Tale. Looking at their website they have always liked to get girls knitting etc and boys doing maths, proper order.

Dress Code:

https://www.villiers-school.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Villiers-School-Dress-Code-and-Uniform-Policy.pdf

Moonbeam

I find that video creepy too but maybe it was made by kids for a project or some such?

whisky_galore

It's a hairstyle, get over yourselves. She not going blackface.

Bet there would be plenty folks of African extraction who would be fine, maybe even flattered with other ethnicities adopting this hairstyle and not infected by the 'let's find any old thing at all to be offended by' trend.

I'll wager heaps of cultures did similar things with hair independently of each other for as long as people have been twiddling with their hair. You don't get to own a hairstyle, fcuk off for yourself.

Jellybaby_1

I had to pop in here and say.......BRAIDS! I couldn't hear either of the girls clearly. I thought they were talking about BRACES!! Couldn't figure it out. When the girl said it was part of her culture, I also couldn't understand what the problem was because I wore plaits as a child, not as many as her but definitely just as long. Then I wondered if it was something to do with their religion, perhaps that's the issue. Anyone know?

tayto lover

Having to apologise again for liking something. Crazy stuff.

Charles Babbage

I'd be very concerned if a school had any official role in this. Cultural appropriation is in general nonsense, does this imply that only Spanish people can play guitar or English people speak English? Or black people wearing V neck jumpers? This kind of nonsense needs to be nipped in the bud.

moonage

The white girl needs elocution lessons.

TedBundysDriver

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121165074#Comment_121165074

It's getting ridiculous it really is. A lot of our kids have been brainwashed into this rubbish. There's one particular American poster on here who prowls threads injecting American culture wars into every other conversation and it's tiresome rubbish.

hynesie08

This looks like something the students made for a TY project, where they picked the least offensive thing to use for cultural appropriation, assuming no-one would take it seriously.

They forgot that everything on the internet in 2023 will get somebody annoyed.

KaneToad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058315769/villiers-school-in-limerick-creates-bizarre-video-to-educate-its-pupils

Wilson's Hospital is not a private school. There is an option to board there - which obviously has to be paid for - but the school does not charge fees to attend there.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121166352#Comment_121166352

Dept of Education funded?

Montage of Feck

Creepy, maybe it's just a really bad handmaids tale parody. I wonder what Jean de Villiers would make of that school appropriating his good name?

Get the braids in if you want and fook off with this nonsense.

Idiotic video.

Astartes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121166329#Comment_121166329

Raised by the television

Rootsblower

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121166352#Comment_121166352

Wilson’s does charge for both boarding and day pupils

TokTik

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121166287#Comment_121166287

It’s not. They’ve a few other creepy videos.

Wanderer78

few sulkies, and it would be grand!

10-10-20

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121165747#Comment_121165747

Right, that's me off to Gemma's Fashions Ltd for communist-style oppressive workwear and a offensively contrasting tie. Please let the red (not maroon) knee-socks be in stock.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121167628#Comment_121167628

I’d say fat chance of any Traveller seeing inside the gate of Ireland’s weirdest school

I don’t think there’d be an opening for him here

KaneToad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121167591#Comment_121167591

I'm saying that Wilson's is not a private school. There is no compulsory charges to attend there. There are some optional charges for those that wish to avail of them.

From their website:

"Wilson's Hospital School stopped charging fees for tuition in 2011 and moved from being a private, fee-paying school to being a voluntary secondary (public) school in the free education system. This has substantially broadened access to our school, and we are very proud of this. Very competitive fees do still apply to students who wish to board and to day students who wish to avail of extra services, outlined below."

Toxic US-style culture war b*****ks slowly creeping its way into the Irish education system.

The sheer level of damage this guff will cause children is incalculable - pitting one against the other, group identity against group identity.

Those responsible for trying to foist it upon children are nothing short of evil.

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121167591#Comment_121167591

Wilson's Hospital stopped being a fee paying school in 2011. Tuition is entirely funded by the Department of Education. Boarding is a different matter.

They do offer "extra services" (meals, afterschool study, extra-curricular activates and medical/pastoral/chaplaincy care) for day pupils that they charge for (€2,500 a year for day "boarders", €1,600 a year for "day pupils"), but this is optional. They don't charge for tuition, and regular pupils don't pay any fees.

All the facts are outline clearly here:

http://www.wilsonshospitalschool.ie/page/Fee-Structure-%28202324%29/14639/Index.html

For their voluntary contribution they suggest "a minimum of €400", but this isn't legally enforceable (although I've no doubt most pay it).

KevMayo88

What a sad thing it is to be in a school that promotes a cult of such nonsensical gibberish. It must be wonderful to walk on egg-shells all day.

archfi

Ah, I miss the long running thread that hosted the wacky, weird, crass, idiotic, dangerous, mind numbing onethink and which threw sunlight on it all.

However, some people waaaay more edumacated than the users of the site decided otherwise with zero explanation one dark night.

Thanks OP!

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

i should have known

but i had to learn

Rootsblower

i have relatives in the school that don’t board and they pay to attend. They do not avail of any of the “extra services” but still pay €800 per pupil.This video from the limerick school is nuts altogether. My kids have often have commented on stupid crap like this saying it’s all bull. Perhaps the silent majority would want to pipe up instead of letting the vocal minority inflict this sheet on the masses.

As the great Jack Nicholson said in Batman

”Why can’t we just all get along”

10-10-20

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121168142#Comment_121168142

It's a valid response for any site warnings or temporary bans too.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121168066#Comment_121168066

I was gobsmacked when this popped up on my Twitter feed, I honestly thought it was a parody video and had to take a second and third look. Seeing it was real, it was taking place in a long established school of “good repute”; how could it not garner notice for being seriously weird? It’s beyond “woke” with the mantra thing sounding like some indoctrination practice that would be the cause of some comment were it to originate in a Catholic institution.

Gulliver

That is creepy as hell. Pod people vibes.

While they're at it, here's some other things that need to be banned as they are probably cultural appropriation:

• Speaking English
• Tanning
• Piercings/Gauging
• Curry (actually any food that isn't potatoes)
• Wine
• Any music that isn't Trad
• Any religion that didn't originate here 😰

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121167898#Comment_121167898

It amounts to manipulating children into bullying type behaviour, it’s primitive and uncivilised.

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121167771#Comment_121167771

well if they want 'inclusion'!