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Yorkshire Parkin Cake And Tea Under Investigation
//Leeds City Council has launched an educational research project into tea produced in Yorkshire and Yorkshire parkin cakes over links to colonialism and the slave trade.//
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Meanwhile, cuts in expenditure will, among other things, result in job losses, cuts to health care and the closure of some care homes.
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Good to see they have their priorities right.
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Meanwhile, cuts in expenditure will, among other things, result in job losses, cuts to health care and the closure of some care homes.
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Good to see they have their priorities right.
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//...this is just an educational plan to teach very young children how their traditional cake and tea came about from global import and the countries the ingredients came from.//
Why do they need to know that at such a young age? Many young children don't know what a potato is so it might be better to teach them that first. This obsession with prioritising the education of young children about the slave trade is just silly. There are more important things for them to learn about first.
Why do they need to know that at such a young age? Many young children don't know what a potato is so it might be better to teach them that first. This obsession with prioritising the education of young children about the slave trade is just silly. There are more important things for them to learn about first.
//...this is just an educational plan to teach very young children how their traditional cake and tea came about from global import and the countries the ingredients came from.//
When I taught in Leeds in the very early sieventies a lot of our pupils didn't know where milk came from, they could make a start there.
When I taught in Leeds in the very early sieventies a lot of our pupils didn't know where milk came from, they could make a start there.
Leeds Museums and Galleries have an ongoing project, 'Decolonising the curriculum':
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All that's happened is that they've been asked by City Council officials to ensure that their work embraces local products, so that schoolchildren realise that the history of slavery isn't something 'remote', that happened in other countries long ago, but also relates directly to what's a part of their everyday lives in the UK. No funding has been diverted from the council's social care budget for the project; it's simply part of what the museum's staff have already been doing.
It sounds like excellent work to me and I hope that there will be similar projects (if there aren't already) in cities like Bristol and Liverpool, that have strong historical links to the slave trade.
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All that's happened is that they've been asked by City Council officials to ensure that their work embraces local products, so that schoolchildren realise that the history of slavery isn't something 'remote', that happened in other countries long ago, but also relates directly to what's a part of their everyday lives in the UK. No funding has been diverted from the council's social care budget for the project; it's simply part of what the museum's staff have already been doing.
It sounds like excellent work to me and I hope that there will be similar projects (if there aren't already) in cities like Bristol and Liverpool, that have strong historical links to the slave trade.
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