My 14 Year Old Has Just Received His Latest Homework.

[royfromaus]

Miss_____ has shared this year's 500 words competition with the English department and the focus this year is BLM.
Use your creativity to express your views on this vital movement. From the work we have seen so far, we know that you are more than capable of airing your views diplomatically, sensitively and with extreme empathy and compassion. In fact, some of your work so far has had us all in tears.



He doesn't have any views on it...shall I do the homework for him?

[Mamyalynne]

Strange, I presume that is a generic preamble then, otherwise what is Miss X basing her statement on?

[Tilly2]

No. He must tell them himself that he has no views, perhaps pivoting around that word 'vital'.

[MargoTester]

No don't do it for him, talk about it with him and encourage him to look for information on the internet/newspapers. Give him a few pointers and get him to write something down in bullet form and then help him pad it out.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Ok he must have a view even if its apathetic. He should write why he feels the way he does, how and why the BLM movement means little to him. No you should not do his homework. The teacher declaring BLM is a 'vital movement' would worry me -she has no right to preach her views and this will maybe hamper other pupils from writing a true reflection of how they feel.

[iluvmargie]

^ Totally agree.

[royfromaus]

The competition has been and gone but the teacher has set it as homework and put her own spin on it.

[Tilly2]

As I said earlier, the essay could be based around that leading word, 'vital'. He could show some original thoughts around that. A lot of the other pupils will probably just agree that it's a vital movement. I suspect that your son could analyse the basic premise.

[Prudie]

I assume she's a subject teacher that warrants setting such homework (history, social sciences?). It would make me cross if my child was set a topic but I guess it's just a sign of the times. I agree if he has no views and has to do it anyway he could explain why he has no views (ie it doesn't impact on his life currently). At 14 most of us would only regurgitate what we've picked up from parents, friends and what we may have read (or been given to read) so if you're concerned he'll produce a lousy piece of work by all means discuss it with him, I'm sure you'll give a level headed view - unlike me at 14 who would only repeat the views of my parents which in this case would have me marked for life, by today's standards they were both raging racists.

[bednobs]

on a Saturday? What kind of school is that?

[Peter Pedant]

doing homework by proxy ....
has been done before

one prep was returned with "Your dad has not understood the question"
One of my chemistry practical write ups had an examiner wondering if 15 y o the authoress ( hem hem ) was a chemical Einstein ( OK Lavoisier, Berzerkelius, Arrhenius . but I dont suppose you know who they are. [ABer as an aside - we dont know who einsteen is eevva])

I actually I thought it would be wood work suitable for a 14 y o - "construct an easily combustible wooden cross we can easily put up ouside the school and set alight - using only stuff in your Dads garage" - but hey ho I suppose I should have foreseen the inevitable left wing nay communist nay stalinist overlay

[Mamyalynne]

Berzerkelius ?

[Peter Pedant]

there is Quite a Lot actually
1. sitn before - many black dead, even by black hands
2. George Formby ( sozza I am trying to this seriously)
3. peaceful demos and then
4 less peaceful demos
5 discuss now or later - why it got up and ran this year only
such as background, emancipation, death of Lincoln and his successor draggin his feet to put it lightly (johnson)
6 effect if any of lock down or not - and a divisive President who was eledte d on the tkt of he will make the electorate rich but the only one rich was - - the president. 20 m unemployed
7. spread to UK. difference - slavery was NOT a big deal, emancipation was not contentious - and they didnt stay or were never here
8 there was no period of reconstruction nor of Jim Crow
9.black lives do matter but why demonstrate about a foreign issue - compare with Vietnam
10 wider political spread than just BLM such as decommissioning Police and lack of support for that - amd some awareness that BLM means more
11 different view of policing here compared to there
12 Political slogans thro the ages - a chicken in every peasant pot every sunday 1550
when adam delved and eve span who then the gentleman 1450
no Popery ! 1700,1800,1900
Back to normalcy 1918
did they means something more than the words themselves

and then a conclusion

can I enter ?

oh missed out Latin - panem et circenses
deffo
and Greek - - γνῶθι σεαυτόν,

clearly we nevuh said - foo dunno really
in my class whatever the question

(bored on satdy afternoon)

[Peter Pedant]

I am always amazed to find someone reads my stuff
Berzelius
here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6ns_Jacob_Berzelius

[Mamyalynne]

Thank you for correcting that Peter, no wonder I struggled to find him.

[Old_Geezer]

Sounds a very political agenda to be setting as homework. Has the teacher been trained ?

Maybe you can produce bullet points for him to consider expanding. About the self interest issues. The lack of interest in being on an equal footing with non-black folk, but wanting racial privilege. The desire to edit history. The attempts to cause disruption and animosity in society. The disdain towards authority. And the appalling way some in education try to brainwash their pupils to support such things. All those sort of aspects.

[royfromaus]

bednobs
on a Saturday? What kind of school is that?



One that has teachers who use the internet to set homework....amazing that innit!

[royfromaus]

Prudie
At 14 most of us would only regurgitate what we've picked up from parents, friends and what we may have read (or been given to read)



That can be true, Prudie... but I let my kids form their own opinions.
For instance my adults kids, one voted Labour and one voted Conservative at the last election.
Each of my boys support different football teams.

The thing we can all agree on is religion is a crock of ****
Just saying.

[royfromaus]

Old_Geezer
Sounds a very political agenda to be setting as homework. Has the teacher been trained ?





Probably a trained Marxist, OG.

[naomi24]

I wonder if he would be marked down for expressing the wrong opinions ... or perhaps just 'marked'?

[Peter Pedant]

what did your 14 y o get for your homework ?