Is Multicultural Teaching Counter-Productive?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315483/How-anti-racism-lesson-INCREASE-pupil-intolerance-They-cause-animosity-cultures.html

/// The findings echo the views of Bradford head teacher Ray Honeyford, who was driven from his job nearly 30 years ago over his claim that multicultural teaching was harming pupils. ///

/// Mr Honeyford said that pupil performance was hindered by ‘the notion of the multi-racial curriculum urged by the authorities, and of making colour and race significant, high-profile issues in the classroom’. ///

It has also been said that Political Correctness makes racism worst not better.

http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/story/prejudice/

What are your thoughts on both statements?

[sp1814]

Kromo

Point of order - I am VERY lazy.

I will watch 'Cash In The Attic' if I can't find the TV remote control.

[FredPuli43]

Sympathy, SP. I used to say "That's what children are for; changing the channel. You don't need to find the remote, or even have one" but then they got older, and the little Bs hogged the remote anyway.

[joko]

i suspect this study refers more in general to the way kids react to things, kids all over the world, regardless of culture, country, ethnicity

kids will be kids