Girl in union jack dress couldn't give 'British' speech

[119]

However, the school has now apologised and back tracked and invited her back to do her speech but she has now declined.

It shouldn't have even got this far really.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvj289y788o

[JuanCarlosFandango]

Not THAT sort of culture.

[JagLover]

Just saw the headline before and didn't realise the school was having a day to dress up like this.

They shouldn't have acted in this way. No wonder the girl is upset now after dressing up like she thought she was supposed to.

[BikeBikeBIke]

119 said:

However, the school has now apologised and back tracked and invited her back to do her speech but she has now declined.

It shouldn't have even got this far really.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvj289y788o

Weird. The poster specifically said what you wore had to be related to your own family culture. Not sure what else she could have worn, we don't really have a national dress.

Hate school dressing up days. Hassle and expense.

[GliderRider]

A lot of countries, including parts of Great Britain, have national dress, yet most English people would be pretty hard-pressed to describe what English national dress is, if it even exists.

Then we have the issue that she is describing, not just English, but British culture, which is three separate cultures, two of which have national dress. Perhaps a hoody and baggy tracksuit bottoms (grubbier the better), maybe what the teacher concerned felt would be more appropriate?

Edited by GliderRider on Tuesday 15th July 12:37

[oddman]

It's clearly a bit clickbaity article but the speech she wrote specifically referred to diversity being part of British culture and made a seemingly uncontraversial point of English culture having value.

What was she was supposed to do? Go in blackface?

Schools need to be a bit smarter than this - it's ripe for activist provication or trolling (a lad went all in grey to a book day as 'Fifty Shades of Grey)

[Roderick Spode]

BikeBikeBIke said:

...we don't really have a national dress.

[Yertis]

oddman said:

It's clearly a bit clickbaity article

Why so?

[oddman]

Yertis said:

oddman said:

It's clearly a bit clickbaity article

Why so?

Maybe ragebaity better.

[BikeBikeBIke]

Yertis said:

oddman said:

It's clearly a bit clickbaity article

Why so?

Stories where kids have a problem with schools are almost always misleading IMHO.

However, in this case we have the instructions the school gave the kids and we can see what she did, so who knows.

[WCZ]

I presumed the whole thing would be pure ragebait and out of context but it does seem absolutely insane that the school did this and i'm sure they'll get a lot of st for it

no idea what they were thinking

[Wombat3]

Somebody needs to be fired for this.

They are not fit to be involved in education.

[JoshSm]

WCZ said:

no idea what they were thinking

You assume you there was thinking involved. I suspect it was more just reflex and their brains got nowhere near it.

[Chris Peacock]

This will probably come down to one idiotic ultra lefty 'inclusive' teacher who made a terrible decision and requires being firedsome additional training.

[BOR]

It sounds like unclear communication to the pupils.

However, you can see, on a day to celebrate diversity, that wearing the butcher's apron could be seen as needlessly contrarian.

[Patio]

Lessons will be learned etc etc yawn

[John D.]

BikeBikeBIke said:

Hate school dressing up days. Hassle and expense.

They are a frequent PITA at my daughters primary school.

[BikeBikeBIke]

BOR said:

It sounds like unclear communication to the pupils.

BBC printed the poster. It's 100% clear what the kids had to do.

[WCZ]

BOR said:

It sounds like unclear communication to the pupils.

However, you can see, on a day to celebrate diversity, that wearing the butcher's apron could be seen as needlessly contrarian.

fair but the united kingdom does have several countries in it and either way it's absurd to send someone home from school just for that

[Rick_1138]

This came up on my feed of a retweet from a Tommy Robinson post (whom I don't follow!)

So assumed it was all a bit outrage bait. Q'uell surprise it was actually true.