In Britain: Teacher turns in debate student for researching about ISIS and Jihad

[newthinking]

So this student researched to debate, get this, ****against**** extremism.

What happens to our ability to think critically if simply LEARNING and being curious can put you in jail?

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Teachers forced to act as 'front-line storm troopers' to spy on pupils under guidelines aimed at combating terrorism

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/teachers-forced-to-act-as-frontline-storm-troopers-to-spy-on-pupils-under-guidelines-aimed-at-combating-terrorism-10158043.html

Teachers are being forced to act as "front-line storm troopers" spying on their pupils as a result of new government guidelines for schools to combat terrorism, a teachers' union conference heard today.

Delegates at the National Union of Teachers' annual conference in Harrogate unanimously backed a motion warning the guidelines were effectively "closing down" any classroom discussion of issues surrounding the radicalisation of young people.

Alex Kenny, for the union's executive, said the government guidelines "will damage and prohibit debate in schools".

"We live in a dangerous world where pupils - like us - are trying to make sense of it," he said. "Schools are places where these discussions should take place in an environment of enquiry and it may be an environment where young people say things we don't like."

[TreasonousBastard]

1. When I was growing up it was the Communists...

now it's the Terra'ists.

Always gotta be an enemy to fear and waste our time on.

[KansDem]

4. You noticed that, too?

First, it was the anarchists--roughly mid-19th century to early-20th century;
Then came the communists--roughly WWII to 1989;
Then came the terrorists--1993 to now.

Always gotta be an enemy to fear and waste our time on. And a great way to manipulate the public while diverting public funds to private interests.

[panfluteman]

2. A Very Delicate Balancing Act...

On the one hand, young people should be free to research and study both sides of an issue in order to arrive at a conclusion and form an intelligent opinion. On the other hand, young people are impressionable and eager to dedicate their lives to a cause, and most of these terrorist organizations and their front groups are quite adept at manipulating and brainwashing any who are at all sympathetic to their cause. The protestation of that young student, "How can I be against something if I don't know anything about it?" rings very true.

[DhhD]

3. Shiite Syrian Government, the real enemy of Wahhabi Islamic State (from Saudia Arabia), not the

enemy of the West/UK.

Former UK Ambassador Ford saying that the Syria should not be the bombing target of the UK/West.

And in my opinion, students are being lead by the Islamic video recruitment, to retaliate against the West, for warring or winds of warring blowing from West to East, and North to South.

[ZombieHorde]

5. That is some creepy shit right there.

[mother earth]

6. How far away are we from, "Papers, please...." nt