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Thursday, March 04, 2010

Pupils Aged Five on Hate Register: Teachers Must Log Playground Taunts For Government Database


Heads will be forced to list children as young as five on school 'hate registers' over everyday playground insults.

Even minor incidents must be recorded as examples of serious bullying and details kept on a database until the pupil leaves secondary school.

Teachers are to be told that even if a primary school child uses homophobic or racist words without knowing their meaning, simply teaching them such words are hurtful and inappropriate is not enough.

Instead the incident has to be recorded and his or her behaviour monitored for future signs of 'hate' bullying.

The accusations will also be recorded in databases held by councils and made available to Whitehall and ministers to help them devise future anti-bullying campaigns.

The scale of the effort to stop children using homophobic or racist language was revealed after the parents of a ten-year-old primary school pupil in Somerset, Peter Drury, were told that his name would be put on a register and his behaviour monitored while he remained at school.'

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  1. This has aired previously, those schools with few ethnic minority pupils have to seek out examples of race hate and magnify them so as to have as many as possible in their register, failure to do so will result in the staff being accused of "being in denial" or even Racist themselves.
    See 1984.

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