Teachers brainwashing kids on animal rights.(Pigs)

[Campani]

Just make sure you are sure it is not a lesson in teaching kids the difference between unfounded propoganda and evidence based facts , before steaming in to the heads office on monday morning

Do make sure of this first. Its really important in the world of the internet, that kids are taught about propoganda, and not to believe everything that is written down. Careful not to jump the conclusion, that the teacher wasnt trying to show the rubbish that's out there.


Of course if it turns out the teacher is a raging animal rights fanatic go full steam ahead.

 

[Still Farming]

We don't know half ?
Maybe Gareth Wyn Jones be going round schools next on BBC ?
Their our customers of the future .

 

[franklin]

It's from an Animal Aid resource pack for English teachers.
This is a vegan campaigning group; I wonder how the teacher is balancing the extreme views in this literature with other more balanced views?

Ah. Those wise sages.

This is the tool to use if you get nowhere:

https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/

I suspect that, with an requirement to make sure pupils are not developing extremist views, that Animal Aid rubbish should not be in the classroom. OFSTED would take a dim view of teaching resources coming from them and being passed off as fact.

 

[Headless chicken]

Year 7 is the old money first form,11 years,coming 12.

My daughter is 11.

Yeah that it was the first year secondary school. Just forgot how young they were when they started. Showing my age now!

 

[Headless chicken]

We don't know half ?
Maybe Gareth Wyn Jones be going round schools next on BBC ?
Their our customers of the future .

@1GarethWynJones

 

[Headless chicken]

Do make sure of this first. Its really important in the world of the internet, that kids are taught about propoganda, and not to believe everything that is written down. Careful not to jump the conclusion, that the teacher wasnt trying to show the rubbish that's out there.


Of course if it turns out the teacher is a raging animal rights fanatic go full steam ahead.

Yes but at the age of 11 that is in appropriate to be handing out to children let alone for them to be able to work out that it's not what it all seems. Correct me if I'm wrong here but they would have started in secondary school in September were now march. 5 months to mature from almost being spoon fed into trying to understand that. I don't think so

 

[DRC]

It's as bad as 4 yr olds now being taught sex education at school.

 

[ImLost]

It's as bad as 4 yr olds now being taught sex education at school.

as if there arent enough problems!! how unnecessary can you get? surely there is more worthwhile things you can teach at that age!

 

[Yale]

This week my daughter was given this handout sheet as part of an English lesson exercise,year 7.

I personally find it full of disinformation,essentially 'fake news'.

Is it acceptable?

How/who to approach the school?

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Just spoken to daughter this lunchtime and the context of the use of the sheet was to 'summarise 5 key points you have learnt from the sheet'.

This was a homework exercise.

It is a topic covering animal rights which will be covered in the coming lessons.

 

[Forever Fendt]

This week my daughter was given this handout sheet as part of an English lesson exercise,year 7.

I personally find it full of disinformation,essentially 'fake news'.

Is it acceptable?

How/who to approach the school?

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[Forever Fendt]

Yes,we don't keep pigs and this was only shown to me first thing this morning.

On questioning my daughter this morning about the 'facts' in the piece her reply was 'it must be fact because a teacher gave it me'!!!!!

I think maybe this is more than a parent complaining so I may contact the local NFU and maybe get one of their experts to approach the school.

To put a proper complaint in you have to be up to speed on the 'facts'.

Thanks for all replies.

You would do better asking @Clive or @gone up the hill than the nfu in my experience by the time they get round to it you daughter may have left school

 

[Clive]

This week my daughter was given this handout sheet as part of an English lesson exercise,year 7.

I personally find it full of disinformation,essentially 'fake news'.

Is it acceptable?

How/who to approach the school?

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I'm going to send a link to this post to someone I think might be able to get something done about this on Monday morning

Nothing more than vegan propaganda and schools should know better than that

 

[Forever Fendt]

I'm going to send a link to this post to someone I think might be able to get something done about this on Monday morning

Nothing more than vegan propaganda and schools should know better than that

When our 2 were in secondary they had a visit planned to a mosque with the RE department no other visits planed to any other denominations, they both went to market that day with me

 

[1GarethWynJones]

Ive got a new series coming soon but not going around schools

 

[Princess Pooper]

Was a leaflet given say by a pig farmer saying his reality of how pigs are raised and it used as a debate showing differing view points?

That was what I wondered. This might be an exercise in filtering opinions, or making their own minds up given differing sources of information.

 

[JJT]

Just spoken to daughter this lunchtime and the context of the use of the sheet was to 'summarise 5 key points you have learnt from the sheet'.

This was a homework exercise.

It is a topic covering animal rights which will be covered in the coming lessons.

Well in the mean time, tell your daughter to say the only thing she learnt from the sheet was that you shouldn't believe everything you are told/read!

 

[Pasty]

It's as bad as 4 yr olds now being taught sex education at school.

I think the point of that is to inform kids what is OK and what is not. It may seem obvious to you and I but as a 4 year old, when a grown up tells you something is fine, are you going to argue? I actually agree with it if it saves 1 child from the horrors some adults can inflict on them.

Now, back to the OP, if there is a complaint to be made, it might be worth going through the article and pointing out the bits which are factually incorrect for an intensive pig operation. Not just slamming it as vegan nonsense. Which parts of the leaflet can be proved to be wrong? You can't just argue that your opinion is different to the author.

 

[slackjawedyokel]

Just spoken to daughter this lunchtime and the context of the use of the sheet was to 'summarise 5 key points you have learnt from the sheet'.

This was a homework exercise.

It is a topic covering animal rights which will be covered in the coming lessons.

Hmmm it's interesting that it's a homework exercise and therefore presumably expected to be seen by parents. You'd hope that it's being used as part of a critical reasoning exercise and follow up questions might include "Do you believe that the points made are true?" and "What sort of organisation produced this material; what sort of agenda might they have?"
This might account for the fact that it's been doctored slightly from the original; it lacks the headers that might otherwise give away it's source.

 

[Cowgirl]

Hmmm it's interesting that it's a homework exercise and therefore presumably expected to be seen by parents. You'd hope that it's being used as part of a critical reasoning exercise and follow up questions might include "Do you believe that the points made are true?" and "What sort of organisation produced this material; what sort of agenda might they have?"
This might account for the fact that it's been doctored slightly from the original; it lacks the headers that might otherwise give away it's source.

Possibly for senior A level or Higher pupils, or for debating, but for Year 7? Far too young in my opinion, much of it factually incorrect in UK, and definitely not to be encouraged.

 

[Pasty]

Which bits are factually incorrect? I'm not a pig farmer so have no idea. If my boy gets this (year 7) I would like to be able to defend the farming industry. Which parts of the document are factually incorrect?