captain red dog wrote:Moggy wrote:Christ, where to start with this drivel.
captain red dog wrote:I don't think we are getting the full story here. I would suspect this was spawned by something the kids learned in class, and probably a lack of quality teaching around the subject. In my experience kids don't know about slave auctions off their own back.
Off their own back? No probably not. But I would expect teenagers to have been taught about the slave trade in school. In fact, they have been since 2008. That's not an excuse to go out and copy what they learned though. These aren't 5 year olds copying something they saw on TV, these are teenagers. Teenagers do not tie kids up and stage mock slave auctions just because their teacher was poor at teaching history.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... ry.schools I'd also suggest there is an element of sensationalising from the press and media. I'm not sure permanent exclusion is a necessary response. Temporary exclusion and isolation, getting to the bottom of why the kids acted that way and helping them not to repeat that behaviour and understand how offensive it is, would be a far better solution.
strawberry floating hell.
Edit: Also agree with Drumstick. Modern slavery is far more subtle but is alive and well in Britain. Just look at the likes of Sports Direct or any major warehouse operator. They pretty much traffic cheap labour from Eastern Europe and pay them a pittance on easily terminated contracts, with no genuine sick pay, pretty much forbid them to join trade unions. Its basically right on the line of legality when it comes to the slavery laws.
Whataboutism.
Well that's unnecessarily aggressive. I prefer to educate and get to the bottom of why kids seem to be acting in an abhorrent manner, it doesn't excuse their behaviour. If you exclude them it doesn't solve the issue and would likely lead to further acts down the road.
Also there is no whataboutism. Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised to see this sort of thing on the playground when slavery is alive and well in this country.
I get pretty aggressive when kids are being tied up, racially abused and “sold” in mock slave auctions.
My thoughts are with the kid that was attacked, how is he feeling? How is he coping? Does he want to go back to the school if the racist gooseberry fools are allowed back in?
These aren’t 5 year olds, these are teenagers. Getting to the bottom of their behaviour is a good idea, but not at the same bloody school that their victim is at.
And that was whataboutism, we are talking about a kid being attacked for the colour of his skin, not about modern day slavery.