Teacher ‘Likened to Terrorist’ After Showing Trump Videos to Students
26th December 2025
A teacher in an English school was accused of posing a risk to children and referred to the Government’s counter-terrorism programme after showing Donald Trump videos to his US politics class.
The teacher, who is in his 50s, has told The Telegraph he was “likened to a terrorist” after showing the videos, including one of Mr Trump’s inauguration, to A-level students.
Henley College, a sixth-form in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, with more than 2,000 students, reported the politics lecturer to the local child safeguarding authority, which concluded a referral to Prevent, the Government’s counter-terrorism programme, was a “priority”.
‘Sixth form’ is a two-year program corresponding to 11th and 12th grades in the U.S. Typically British education stops at what Americans would consider the 10th grade, with the final two years only given to people intending to continues to University. Students completing the ordinary course take the test for GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) or ‘school-leaving certificate’ (which used to be called ‘O-levels’), which is sort of the British equivalent of the American high-school diploma. A ‘sixth-form college’ will give students an additional two years of college prep, after which they take the ‘A-level’ exams to find out what university admittance they can expect. It’s the sort of highly-centralized government-centric sytem that underscores the contrast between how the British do things and how Americans do things.