This kind of ideologically motivated teaching comes not only from individual activist teachers, who seek to pass on their political beliefs to a young and impressionable captive audience. Woke indoctrination is also being led up and down the country by charities, educational alliances, teaching unions, local authorities and devolved governments. Most worryingly, there is very little transparency about what children are being taught and who is shaping school’s syllabuses.
Even when woke ideas are not taught explicitly, they are shaping the very nature of the curriculum. Activists in the education world are working hard to ‘decolonise’ syllabuses and education materials. The list of authors and poets from the canon it is considered acceptable to teach is shrinking each year. Important texts like To Kill a Mockingbird and the works of Wilfred Owen have been struck from reading lists across the country in recent years. All of this is happening without any conversation or consultation with parents.
Arguably, even more concerning is what children are being taught about gender and sexuality. It would be one thing if children were being given space to discuss the gender-identity debate. It is quite another for children to be taught the views of trans activists as if they are fact.
[This is written for UK audiences, but is equally applicable here in the US. In fact, it’s almost impossible to distinguish between the two. — Ed]
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