Re: Teaching Brexit
Originally Posted by
Realist
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Teachers in all walks of life have a responsibility, a duty of care. They must NOT abuse their positions by selectively indoctrinating students towards their own political or philosophical preferences. They must be objective and mete out an objective syllabus.
Unless, of course, one teaches in a single faith school (that one's just for Muddy, for old time's sake
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As for objective syllabus...there in lies the problem. Sometimes the syllabus is far from objective. Things I've been told to teach in the past include a clearly biased one sided account which stated that global warming was 100% accurate and no other view was to be permitted nor open to discussion.
A particularly bright student wrote a piece of coursework for his General Studies which took an alternative view. It was well argued, used a variety of sources etc and was well worthy of an A/A* grade. The exam board awarded him a grade C because it didn't tow the political line.
Alas, I've been our of the game for a couple of years or so and can no longer quote specific exam questions as I no longer have to read and mark old practice papers (feel free to shoot me down here, accordingly), but even some maths GCSE questions had a political bent at times.