UK: ‘Schoolgirl arrested for refusing to study with non-English pupils’
29th December 2010
Actually, even the headline is a lie (Objective Journalism At Work): She didn’t ‘refuse to study’ with them, she asked to be put in a different group BECAUSE NONE OF THEM SPOKE ENGLISH AND SHE DIDN’T UNDERSTAND THE NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN WHICH THEY WERE DISCUSSING THE MATERIAL.
“I said ‘I’m not being funny, but can I change groups because I can’t understand them?’ But she started shouting and screaming, saying ‘It’s racist, you’re going to get done by the police’.”
There was racism present that day, but it was on the part of the teacher. Would she have said anything if Cody hadn’t been white?
A complaint was made to a police officer based full-time at the school, and more than a week after the incident on September 26 she was taken to Swinton police station and placed under arrest.
What kind of a school has a ‘police officer based full-time at the school’?
It had the worst GCSE results in the entire Salford LEA last year with just 15 per cent of pupils achieving five good passes including English and maths, a third of the national average.
The school is now investigating exactly what happened before deciding what action – if any – to take against Codie.
I have an idea: How about deciding what action to take against her teacher and the administration of her school?
“A lot of these arrests don’t result in prosecutions – they aim is to frighten us into self-censorship until we watch everything we say.”
And that’s God’s truth. It isn’t Big Brother you have to watch out for, it’s Big Nanny. She’s got a stick, and she’s not afraid to use it.