Professionals have slammed teachers who have been reporting children as young as five for being racist, saying that making children frightened to ask questions is unhealthy.<\/p>\n
The comments come after parent Hayley White was summoned to her seven-year-old son\u2019s primary school and told that her some Elliott had been at the centre of an \u2018incident\u2019 with another pupil, the Daily Mail reports.<\/p>\n
She was told that the situation was so serious she would have to sign an official form admitting he was racist; something Ms White refused to do.<\/p>\n
The reason for this demand was because her son had asked a four-year-old pupil during break time if he was \u201cbrown because he was from Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I arrived at the school and asked Elliott what had happened, he became extremely upset,\u201d said Ms White, a 32-year-old NHS worker.<\/p>\n
She said her son was distressed about the reaction from staff, saying to his mother: \u201cI was just asking a question. I didn\u2019t mean it to be nasty\u201d.<\/p>\n
The row over the question escalated when the black child told his mother about the question when he returned home from school, who then informed the school hoping they could \u201chave a quiet word with Elliott\u201d.<\/p>\n
Elliott\u2019s mother was given a copy of the school rules to read with particular focus on its \u2018zero-tolerance\u2019 policy on racism.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was told I would have to sign a form acknowledging my son had made a racist remark, which would be submitted to the local education authority for further investigation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI refused to sign it, and I told the teacher that in no way did I agree the comment was racist. My son is inquisitive. He always likes to ask questions, but that doesn\u2019t make him a racist.\u201d<\/p>\n
The singling out of children as \u2018racist\u2019 or \u2018prejudiced\u2019 for making comments which the politically-correct brigade rule as unacceptable can have serious consequences for young children, with the record staying on their school report and the child being branded as a bigot for the whole of their school career for asking a simple question.<\/p>\n
Source: Breitbart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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