View Full Version : Banning racist teachers from the class room, legal?
Ace42X
07-17-2006, 06:18 AM
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1822443,00.html
Should the NUT be able to expel members on the basis of their political affiliations? Should schools be able to ban people according to which political party they support? Even thought membership to the party is synymous with racial and religious intollerance and thuggery?
I dunno, but I DO know that BNP members vary between idiots, thugs and neo-nazis, is that grounds enough for being disbarred?
Funkaloyd
07-17-2006, 07:20 AM
I don't think that political or religious affiliation alone should be enough to bar a person from working for the government, even as a teacher or police officer. It would be an easy rule to get around, and where do you draw the line?
However, it would be fair enough to require all applicants to such positions to sit something like an Implicit Association Test, and include something about discrimination in the job's contract.
Ace42X
07-17-2006, 08:16 AM
It is certainly a sticky issue. While disbarring someone on the grounds of political affiliation is inherantly dangerous, you can also see the argument that association with extremists and racists damages an institution and loses it credibility.
I am further conflicted due to having unpopular political / social views myself, but also loathing the BNP and everything they stand for.
EN[i]GMA
07-17-2006, 08:39 AM
If they don't espouse the views in class, it would be OK, I think.
But if they do, can their asses.
Ace42X
07-17-2006, 08:47 AM
GMA']If they don't espouse the views in class, it would be OK, I think.
But if they do, can their asses.
I agree with this sentiment, but made me think "how can you enforce it" ? How can you monitor that sort of thing, especially as he teaches disruptive pupils of the sort most likely to be overtly prejudiced anyway.
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