Lessons in citizenship are still inadequate in more than one-in-10 English secondary schools, eight years after the subject was added to the national curriculum, Ofsted suggested.The Telegraph, like the Labour Government originally, is missing an important point here:
The education watchdog said that the worst schools had done "little or nothing" to introduce classes to children.
"Occasionally, teachers did not go much further than considering stereotypes of Britishness such as ‘What brings us together as a nation?’," said Ofsted.There we go. What brings "who" together as the British nation (and we are talking about Britishness and not Englishness here)? The "who" are the English, Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh...so what's the point then in limiting the teaching of "Britishness" and what unites us as a nation to only one part of that nation?
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Your question might as easily have been: 'what's the point in limiting the teaching of "Britishness" to only one of the British nations [plural]?' The answer's obvious: they want to erase the English nation altogether and replace it by a unitary British nation.
It was never about Britishness. There was never a remit for this to cover Scotland, N. Ireland or Wales.
It was an exercise in stopping the English from thinking in terms of England.
A kind of "no democratic equality please, we're British" (except for the Scots, Welsh and N. Irish).
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