Are we starting to see an end to political correctness

[loz]

Just refuse,what are they going to do?

that's a pretty accurate assessment of what goes on. My other half is going into secondary teaching and reckons that a lot of the teachers simply ignore the guidelines they don't agree with, otherwise they'd have very little time to teach.

also on the Education/PC topic, this was really interesting- good to see someone firstly sticking up for the role of schools, and secondly pointing the finger at parents for their kids behaviour and values.

 

[OldBlueLady]

that's a pretty accurate assessment of what goes on. My other half is going into secondary teaching and reckons that a lot of the teachers simply ignore the guidelines they don't agree with, otherwise they'd have very little time to teach.

also on the Education/PC topic, this was really interesting- good to see someone firstly sticking up for the role of schools, and secondly pointing the finger at parents for their kids behaviour and values.

I think I made the point somewhere else that very young children learn their bad behaviour, and so obviously the prime educators are within the family for both bad and good behaviour. Once they begin down that slope it escalates as they get older.

Parents have to realise that they have a responsibility to instil good values in their children and that they are the most important teachers in their child's life, school teachers only teach according to the national curriculum.

 

[WestRoadShrimper]

There have been some good things about political correctness, broadly conceived (e.g. anti-discrimination laws etc)

That'll be those same laws that now make it acceptable to discriminate in favour of women and ethnic minorities if you're looking at equally qualified people for a job. Another very good example of the 'PC' brigade having a good idea and taking it way to far.

Talking about political correctness, it's getting worse in schools at the moment.

We have to mark work in green pen, cos if we mark anything in red, it's considered an 'angry' comment. :stunned:

I've always marked in green though.....

On a historical note, people wrote in red in the Elizabethan times when they had something nasty to say, so it is technically correct!