‘My children are being taught non-binary verb conjugations in French class’
Reader Beth Brockley exposes how education is simply not as easy as it utilized to be.
“My children are being taught non-binary verb conjugations in French class at secondary school — so as well as ‘il’ and ‘elle’, they are taught how to make verbs agree with the genderless ‘iel’,” she describes.
“They are told to learn vocabulary like ‘my non-binary sibling’ (‘mon froeur’, apparently) and have to practice writing adjectives with odd gender neutral endings — for example, writing ‘gentil:le’ instead of simply writing ‘gentil’ for a man and ‘gentille’ for a woman, because ‘you can’t tell someone’s gender by looking.’”
Ms Brockley likewise explains how “this use of language is highly controversial in France and, according to a French acquaintance, banned from being taught to French children. Why on earth is it in the British national curriculum?”
‘My sister was turned down for the job with the explanation that her experience did not give her ‘sufficient appreciation of diversity or white privilege”’
Reader Stephen Cass shares how his youngest sibling, in her 5th job interview for a charity management function, was informed that the recruiter had “woken up the day after George Floyd was murdered and checked my privilege”.
“The interviewer then asked my sister, ‘what have you done to check your privilege and live diversity?’
“My sister, who is white and speaks fluent Spanish, had previously been CEO of several charities working primarily with lower income Hispanic and black citizens, as well as the disabled. My sister responded she had devoted her entire career to working in the charity sector and that her success with these organisations spoke for itself.
“She was turned down for the job with the explanation that her experience did not give her ‘sufficient appreciation of diversity or white privilege’. She remains jobless.”
‘I pointed out when I resigned that I could see that the staff were about to be told what their politics should be’
Tim Williams held a senior position in a significant 15,000 strong British consultancy business.
However, Mr Williams “left on principle” after they took “a radical position in support of Black Lives Matter (BLM), having previously attempted to make us do ‘unconscious bias’ training — the aim of which was clearly to make us all prove that we had such bias”.
Having been a Labour Party member all his life and “deeply anti-racist”, Tim declined the training — “knowing that experts doubt its value, too”.
Tim resigned when the Chair sent around a newsletter with 3 ladies ‘taking the knee’ under the BLM motto, ‘no justice, no peace’, he said.
He included: “I pointed out when I resigned that I could see that the staff were about to be told what their politics should be.”
