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Now teachers are being trained to spot terrorist pupils

Teacher-in-classroom A few weeks ago I wrote about Edinburgh Council's decision to start training their social workers to look for anything vaguely 'terroristy' – to the general consternation of many.

But this week Cornwall Council has taken the Minority Report approach to combating terrorism one step further.

As reported in the Daily Mail:

Teachers are being trained on how to spot pupils who might become terrorists when they leave school, it was revealed today.

Council chiefs believe the specialist training will allow secondary school staff to identify children who may grow up to become suicide bombers.

A £3,500 conference is being laid on in Cornwall designed to help teachers from across the county pick out would-be violent extremists.

A spokesman for the Department of Education confirmed the conference would be the first of its kind in Britain, but admitted a wider scheme offering guidance to teachers across the country was already in place.

If there are any teachers reading this that have received or seen any of this guidance, Big Brother Watch would love to take a look; not least because we'd be interested to see what the DCSF defines as the characteristics of a 12 year-old that mark it out as a potential terrorist.

Our primary concern is what happens next – Is the child loaded onto a terrorist database for life? Is their family placed under surveillance? 

Teachers should be concentrating on making sure the child is getting educated. This proposal encourages suspicion and mistrust in schools – the sort of thing that can lead to children becoming disillusioned, unhappy, perhaps look for an alternative source of learning…

By Dylan Sharpe

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Big Brother Watch Posted in Overbearing state
  • europeanBOB

    I took a walk around my neighbourhood yesterday, terrorist spotting.
    I identified about 25 suspects, of course these would be the stupid terrorists that don’t open their curtains before noon.
    There were untold numbers of clever terrorist suspects that had deviously got up early in the morning to open their curtains and give the impression of innocence, sneaky bastards.

  • LeChiffre

    “Russia’s main television channel is flying into Manchester [...] as part of a special investigation into the totalitarian regime that they see emerging in Europe”
    Read more: http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/come-the-revolution/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AnnaRaccoon+%28Anna+Raccoon%29#ixzz0hzJTmDuZ

  • Redacted

    I wouldn’t be surprised if they were also training the pupils to spot teachers who might “go postal”.

  • Purlieu

    I just drove past a terrorist cell hotspot.
    It was cleverly disguised as a “police station”.
    The terrorists were all practicing their moves AND they had the boldness to all be wearing their “goth” black uniforms.
    They also have terrorist cars with red and yellow stripes down the sides.
    One or two of them were reciting their holy script, they especially like section 42.

  • ThousandsOfMilesAway

    Hilarious.
    Remind me again – when was the last Cornish terrorist atrocity?

  • Vic

    Off topic slightly but connected I think.
    Some Secondary school PE teachers and science teachers are being asked to provide after school classes targetted specifically at children identified as overweight and whose parents have been informed prior to these classes by letter that their child is’overweight’ or ‘obese’ The classes can also be offered for children from ‘households identified as inactive (in an exercise sense). Letters are sent out to parents when PE teachers have identified these cohorts of children. Fizzy drinks and ‘unhealthy’ foods are of course now banned from being provided by school canteen providers but children are also banned from bringing them into school themselves with or without packed lunches. Teachers have to physically take fizzy drinks from children and throw them in the bin whether the ‘child’ is 16-18 and has purchased the drink themselves or 11 and has had the drink provided by a parent in a lunch box. CCTV cameras are going up in corridors, classrooms and playgrounds to ‘monitor behaviour’. School is not the place you remember. I make no personal judgement or comment, I just state the facts.