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Originally Posted by freezin
The girl's mother said: "She asked to be taken out of her group because the other five students were Asians and four didn't speak English so there was no point in her being with them. When she pointed this out to the teacher she was accused of being racist."
The girl was accused of being a "racist", but no one said she was wrong according to the reports I have seen.
Head Dr Antony Edkins said: "An allegation of a serious nature was made concerning a racially motivated remark by one student towards a group of Asian students new to the school and this country."
So if the other children could speak English, then the girl was a racist, but she'd have to be a liar as as well as a racist in that case. If they could, the Dr Edkins was in a good position to say so, but apparently he chose not to. Isn't that strange?
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Not when the reporting is up to the news paper.
I'm sure he actually said more than "An allegation of a serious nature was made concerning a racially motivated remark by one student towards a group of Asian students new to the school and this country" in fact he probably said nothing of the sort.
I know many people who've been misquoted by reporters to put a particular slant on the article, or to simply get across what they're saying in a more concise manner.
I also know of a complaint to the PCC regarding an article in a local Liverpool paper being upheld because the reporter had all his facts wrong making wild claims.
Notice the girls are not reportedly interviewed, the only suggestion they can't speak English is from the chastised girl's mother, who is likely to be relying on her daughter's opinion of the girls and trying to defend her rather than first hand knowledge of the girls involved.
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Originally Posted by freezin
When it's an issue involving children of different races or cultures, it becomes so politically correct with some teachers that even "decent parents", or perhaps especially decent parents, fear to tread.
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Rubbish. There is no way that saying your child is not getting the education they are entitled to because the teacher is having to spend all their time with other kids can be seen as anything other than a valid concern by a decent parent, unless that parent uses racist terms during the discussion with the school, in which case the parent is being racist.