I’m fine with schools suggesting ‘We hope for peace among all nations’, but ‘We trust and obey our government’ sounds like very un-British sucking up
For some years now, British schools have been formally required to promote “British values”. According to the guidelines, this seems to focus on fairly uncontroversial issues such as democracy, the embracing of all faiths and the rule of law. However, schools are given a fair amount of leeway in defining those values.I was quite surprised though, when I went to a year 6 “meet the teacher” session for my 10-year-old daughter and saw on the classroom wall a poster that described, arranged as satellites around a central union jack, “Our British Values”, presumably in response to the government injunction. The poster – according to my daughter – appears in all the classrooms.
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