Brits Scuttling Values in Education

Anyone who follows trends in educational systems will not be surprised by this report.

From TimesOnline.co.uk:

Schools would no longer be required to teach children the difference between right and wrong under plans to revise the core aims of the National Curriculum.

Instead, under a new wording that reflects a world of relative rather than absolute values, teachers would be asked to encourage pupils to develop "secure values and beliefs."

The draft also purges references to promoting leadership skills and deletes the requirement to teach children about Britain's cultural heritage.

Ministers have asked for the curriculum's aims to be slimmed down to give schools more flexibility in the way they teach pupils aged 11 to 14.

No morality education coupled with total ignorance of one's family, community and nation makes Jack a very malleable boy. But I wonder if the motive has less to do with flexibility in education and more to do with political appeasement to the Muslims in the UK. It would seem logical and consistent with the effort last year when Muslims successfully pressured the Brits into teaching Islam to primary school children, ostensibly to breed harmony.

It's also interesting that the focus will be children ages 11 through 14. Hey, kids! Now that you have learned Islam, listen up. Forget right and wrong and forget that you're a British subject. Everything is relative. And what better time to tell a bunch of kids to do their own thing than when they are juggling raging hormones and funny feelings?

Sheesh!

Tip: Joanne Jacobs

Companion post at The Jawa Report.