Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Reading, Writing & Rioting.

Over at Liberal Conspiracy there is consternation about the suspension of a teacher accused of encouraging her pupils to go on demonstrations. However the same site has run about a dozen stories highlight alleged violence by police against the student demos, such as these police horses gently trotting toward charging at students. In other words teachers should be free to encourage pupils to put themselves in dangerous situations if it matches up with their politics.

6 comments:

Richard said...

Hundal beautifully kippered here:

"Sunny #5 “Even if she did encourage them to go out on protests – I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.”

Sunny #26 “If a student turns up saying that she told them in class to go to the protests I’ll fully accept she was right to be suspended and investigated.”"

What a pile of badly-argued and inconsistent rubbish. Still, you can't accuse him of not engaging with his readers, even if he stitches himself up in doing so.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Well spotted by Richard, but I don't think your post shows up any inconsistency on LC's part.

PS, shouldn't that be "highlighting" and not "highlight"?

Richard said...

You mean it's always as bad as that? I shall have to go there more often.

banned said...

"highlight alleged violence by police against the student demos, such as these police horses gently trotting toward charging at students." and then there is that nice Mr Hague(?)lecturing Mubarak for sending in police thugs to intimidate peacefull demonstrators in Cairo.

JuliaM said...

More to the point, if she'd encouraged them to go on a Countrysiide Alliance demo, or - heaven forbid! - an EDL march, the same people would be howling for her dismissal.

And probably her dismemberment too....

Anonymous said...

I recall Harry Fletcher of NAPO castigating Fathers4Justice for taking kids on demo's years ago.

His condemnation for the parents of kids on the Anti-war demo's is still awaited.