That's Racist!: How the Regulation of Speech and Thought Divides Us All (Societas)

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Our feeling is that it should be transparent. We represent residents in the city and obviously that includes parents.” I can go on to my laptop if I want to look at what is being taught in secondary schools and I can go to the examples and I can find out what is being taught and so on. It is controversial. It is a controversial programme so it’s even more (reason) that we should have some access to it. Parents of young children expect schools to uphold safeguarding duties. They expect councils to risk-assess potentially harmful interventions. Before writing a series of books (based on research in schools), Adrian Hart was a community and schools filmmaker and film tutor. After seven years as a part-time lecturer in special needs education, he formed Coyote Films in 1998. His films prioritise the participation of children and focus on a range of cohorts from refugee and asylum seekers to children with moderate or severe learning difficulties. Other projects simply use filmmaking as an enabling process for children in schools or in theatre groups or in council estates. In his last years in filmmaking (hired to develop local authority anti-racism educational resources) he concluded the work was damaging. He ended this work and warned about it in subsequent writings.

By understanding the history of racism, we will equip school staff to take steps to prevent and mitigate the experiences of racism in our community. There is nothing in our strategy that aims to engender guilt or victimhood – and the development of critical thinking skills is one element of our educational output. If you had known of the controversies surrounding CRT, you would have had reason to investigate if the strategy breaches the ‘public sector equalities duty’ by fostering divisions among children. Adrian Hart It is an overall forecast for the net worth of Adrian Hart. The evaluation covers the latest 5 years and an approximation for next year. See above to learn how much money does Adrian Hart makes a year. Schools are also free to engage any training providers to deliver training for their staff in line with school values and policy.Of course, racism is still very much a real issue unfortunately but words such as ‘systemic racism’ and ‘white privilege’ are inappropriate. We should be deeply concerned that the council is using very contentious and divisive philosophies to influence its guidance to schools such as CRT. The invitation CRT issues to children is, precisely, that they should define themselves and each other as victims or oppressors according to their colour.

We accept that as a council we have got a lot to learn and a lot to do to prevent and mitigate against the racism that pupils, students and their families have told us happens in our schools. As a council, we believe that racism is not just a product of individual bias or prejudice but something embedded in our systems which is why the rich ethnic diversity of our city is not represented in council or in employees in our schools. Critical race theory, he said, “invites teachers and children to define and treat one another differently according to the immutable characteristic of skin colour. What is clear is that Critical Race Theory is divisive and it doesn’t necessarily divide people along party lines or by colour. The Equalities Minister is obviously not white yet has set out clearly, eloquently and passionately why she opposes it and believes it breaches the Public Sector Equality Duty.At GCSE or A level stages, partisan political or religious ideologies are rightly presented, discussed and balanced with differing perspectives, but we accept that they should never be promoted.” Training is not education. Training means making people think in a certain way and the council should not be in the business of making our children think in a certain way especially on something so contentious.” Councillor O’Quinn said: “Councillors have actually been refused access to these teaching materials.

Conservative councillor Alistair McNair said: “I support what Councillor O’Quinn has said and I agree with Mr Hart as well. Councillor Alistair McNair

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Councillor Clare said: “My understanding is the training is commercially sensitive but also it’s schools who decide what materials they use.” I am asking that we have, as councillors, some access to these teaching materials. It’s very important that we should. Ramzi's story was more complex than some. "I grew up in an Armenian-American community and I grew up in a divorced family so I feel like I had to come out twice," he said. It took until age 21, even after dating someone for the coming out to occur. "I was so scared of what it actually meant to call yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was going to eventually meet a girl and get married because that's what men did," he said. "Especially Armenian men." When he came to the realization that wasn't his future, he told his mother who was very supportive. His father ended up forcing the coming out, having already suspected, in an extremely intense scene. When Ramzi told him what he wanted to hear, his father became quiet and said "why don't you just put a bullet in my head." Ramzi's sister, who is also queer and had come out before, was also present.