Originally Posted by
ramAnag
Not really, Andy. As predominantly an English teacher it’s very difficult to teach around texts such as ‘Oliver Twist’ and ‘A Kestrel for a Knave’ without pupils reaching certain conclusions about poverty and bullying. Likewise with Macbeth or Romeo and Juliet it is impossible not to touch on matters such as greed, avarice and tribalism.
There were times, in PSHE and under Thatcher during the Aids crisis, when we were not supposed to mention homos exuality, but that too was largely impossible and although no one I know would have ever actually advocated that particular s exual practice it certainly had to be mentioned and it had to be dealt with sensitively so basically no one took much notice of directives from ‘above’.
There were times when I had to adopt school guidelines that I didn’t necessarily completely agree with, and there were times when I found myself at odds with the LEA, but, sorry to disappoint, I can’t actually think of an occasion such as you refer to.