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Author:  Spreadie [ Wed Jan 20, 2016 8:35 am ]
Post subject:  10 yr old Muslim interviewed by Police for misspell
Guardian link

Don't know whether to laugh or despair.
Author:  pcernie [ Wed Jan 20, 2016 5:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 10 yr old Muslim interviewed by Police for misspell
Quote:
“You can imagine it happening to a 30-year-old man, but not to a young child,” she told the BBC. “If the teacher had any concerns it should have been about his spelling.


:lol:

Presumably anyone with a Celtic surname is also now nervous of spelling mistakes...

I've certainly typed in a wrong, but similar-sounding word before. And what gets me is the teacher apparently didn't have the wit to realise what's happened or to take the boy aside first of all. Either that or they just thought 'I'm not getting done for this!'.
Author:  davrosG5 [ Wed Jan 20, 2016 9:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 10 yr old Muslim interviewed by Police for misspell
Well, if you can get done for failing to report terrorist activity...
Nothing exposes the stupidity of rubbish legislation like rigidly complying with it regardless of how idiotic it is.
Author:  hifidelity2 [ Thu Jan 21, 2016 8:56 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 10 yr old Muslim interviewed by Police for misspell
davrosG5 wrote:
Well, if you can get done for failing to report terrorist activity...
Nothing exposes the stupidity of rubbish legislation like rigidly complying with it regardless of how idiotic it is.

exactly - if I am personally liable (Prison / fine etc) and the legislation is badly written or so punitive that it does not allow for common sense then I would probably report everything

Indeed if the teachers had any sense they would report everything and swamp the system until they changed the law
Author:  paulzolo [ Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 10 yr old Muslim interviewed by Police for misspell
hifidelity2 wrote:
davrosG5 wrote:
Well, if you can get done for failing to report terrorist activity...
Nothing exposes the stupidity of rubbish legislation like rigidly complying with it regardless of how idiotic it is.

exactly - if I am personally liable (Prison / fine etc) and the legislation is badly written or so punitive that it does not allow for common sense then I would probably report everything

Indeed if the teachers had any sense they would report everything and swamp the system until they changed the law

There’s enough paperwork in schools already - the people who would be swamped would be the teachers and nominated member of staff whose responsibility is child safety - and I expect that in most cases, that would be the head (certainly in primary schools it’s likely to be).
Author:  pcernie [ Thu Jan 21, 2016 10:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 10 yr old Muslim interviewed by Police for misspell
Lancashire police say 'terrorist house' incident not about spelling mistake | Home News | News | The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 24481.html

That is about nothing more than managing the media. The boy apparently didn't disclose anything truthful (key word there) that would cause such a fuss, but just look at that homework sheet - it talks about a character then seems to want to slyly interrogate the child with questions that basically set out their ID!

The establishment's local branch are looking leverage because they too treated it like the information gathering exercise it apparently is.
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