THE BRITISH INQUISITION

 

In 2008-09, there were allegedly 10,436 racist incidents in primary schools in England and Wales, another 19,223 in secondary schools, and 41 in nursery schools. The majority of incidents involved name-calling. In 51 cases, the police became involved.

 

Under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, teachers were required to name the alleged perpetrator of such incidents, name the alleged victim, set out the alleged incident and punishment in reports to the Local Educational Authorities. Heads who sent in 'nil' returns were condemned for 'under-reporting'.

 

That the persecution of even English schoolchildren, which is what it is, has continued under the  Tory/Liberal Democrat coalition merely shows the extent of their innate political correctness; it also shows the extent of the hatred of English society that that creed, so openly beloved by David Cameron, involves. Using terms such as 'Chinese boy', 'Somalian', 'gay' or even 'girl' can be sufficient for a child, even a nursery child, to be branded as racist, homophobic and prejudiced. Ofsted has become the government's engine for the persecution.

 

In June 2014, a small rural primary school in Devon was criticized for being insufficiently 'multicultural'. The school then organized sleepovers for pupils, at parents' expense, with a London school with a high number of non-English children. Another village primary school in Cumbria, with only 13 pupils, was put into special measures by Ofsted which accused the school of having too many incidents of racist and homophobic bullying, stemming from one incident of children using the term 'gay' in a politically incorrect way. The school is all white.

 

In November 2014, one high-performing primary school was condemned for lacking 'first-hand experience of the diverse make-up of modern British society' by Ofsted, which consequently downgraded the school's performance.

 

A Christian school in Reading was threatened with closure for not inviting imams and other religious leaders to take assemblies. Another school in Market Rasen was criticized because: 'The large majority of pupils are White British. Very few are from other ethnic groups, and currently no pupils speak English as an additional language'; the school was told to 'extend pupils' understanding of the cultural diversity of modern British society by creating opportunities for them to have first-hand interaction with their counterparts from different backgrounds'.

 

In January 2015, two schools fell foul of Ofsted. One was put into special measures because a 10 year-old did not give a politically correct answer a question as to what lesbians 'did'; the other school will be closed because one child gave a politically incorrect answer to a question as to what a Muslim was. An 11 year-old girl was asked if she was a virgin.

 

The persecution of schoolchildren is clearly not confined to issues of race. The Tory Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, gave her very full backing to Ofsted in its campaign. One 10 year-old schoolgirl was upset to be held responsible for her school being placed into special measures because she gave a politically incorrect answer to the question: 'What is a lesbian?' The girl had replied that she did not want to talk about it. In another example, an 11 year-old girl was asked if she had any gay friends and even whether she had ever felt she was in the wrong body! The questions are aggressive and intimidatory.

 

Nicky Morgan has unveiled a £2million programme to tackle alleged homophobic bullying in schools, targeting even the youngest children. Recommendations include encouraging teachers to refer to gay people more in class.

 

Incredibly, even during the election campaign it was revealed that one primary school, with children as young as 3 years-old, requires pupils to sign a contract that they must: 'Be tolerant of others whatever their race, colour, gender, class, ability, physical challenge, faith, sexual orientation or lifestyle and refrain from using racist or homophobic or transphobic language in school'.

 

This politically correct paedophilia is being justified as being the promotion of British values. That is bunk. The whole concept of British values will fail because the politically correct are, as they were bound to do, interpreting those values as being political correctness.

 

What has held Britain together is not shared British values, but a sense of national unity, a shared history and a common British culture. With that in mind, the coalition government's disdain for the celebration of the Battle of Waterloo, for example, is divisive and damaging to any genuine attempt to promote national unity. Children should be encouraged to take pride in our national victories.