Parent Arrested in School Reception and Held by Police for Eight Hours After Complaining a Teacher Had Told Pupils St George Flags Could be “Racist Symbol”
A parent was forcefully arrested in a secondary school reception and detained by police for eight hours after he went to complain about a lesson where a teacher told pupils St George flags could be viewed as a “racist symbol”. The Mail has the story.
Broadoak School, in Partington, Greater Manchester, has launched an investigation into comments allegedly made to pupils on Friday morning following complaints by parents.
Yesterday, it emerged a father was arrested in the school’s reception on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker when he joined others to complain to the school on Monday.
The parent, whom the Daily Mail is not naming, described how he was detained for eight hours, interviewed and then released without charge.
After he was released, he said he had gone to the school to remove his 12 year-old daughter because of concerns she would be branded ‘racist’.
The father-of-two said both he and his daughter had also attended protests at the Cresta Court Hotel in nearby Altrincham which houses asylum seekers.
He said: “She’s been with me and made good friends there. We stand united for the country. She’s with mixed race children there.
“We just want what’s best for our country and our people ultimately. People are suffering, without any help for heating.
“The whole country is struggling. Bills are going up and everyone is struggling and feeling the effects.”
The comments made by the teacher at Broadoak School on Friday were captured on a video and shared among parents.
In the clip, the member of staff can be heard noting the rise in the number of St George flags erected on lampposts in Partington and other parts of the country before telling pupils: “We are not saying that the England flag is an inherently racist symbol.
“However, unfortunately for some people it has been viewed to be that.”
The teacher told the pupils she joined a counter protest in Fallowfield to oppose people there who were “trying to make those people inside the hotel feel unwelcome”.
She said some of the main protesters were “using Nazi salutes and throwing very racist abuse towards the people inside”.
Protests and counter demonstrations have taken places at hotels housing asylum seekers across the country, including the Bell Hotel in Epping, Best Western Hotel in Fallowfield and the Cresta Court Hotel in Altrincham.
The parent said the lesson was “disgusting”, adding: “I don’t think her political views or beliefs should be aired to the children in the way it’s been.
“Yes, she’s going to the protest and that’s one thing, but don’t be telling the children that’s what they should be thinking or believing.”
He said he turned up with other parents at the school on Monday and removed his daughter because he feared her “being called racist for something she has not done”.
“It’s nothing to do with race,” he said. “It’s obviously made her worry that the teacher has said she has been to counter protests and that people who demonstrate outside the hotels are racist.”
In the school’s reception, he admitted he “raised his voice” and police were called.
He was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and police assault before being taken to Pendleton police station in Salford.
The father said he was released without charge at about 5.30pm, some eight hours later.
The grandmother of another pupil who witnessed the altercation and said she counted eight police officers, said: “I was there for exactly the same reason. It went absolutely mental. He was smashed against the glass door and then onto the floor…. I’m shocked by it.”
She said the man had done nothing except express his frustration and was simply a “concerned parent”.
On the same day the school’s Headteacher John Knowles and Academies Director John Shakos sent a letter to parents apologising for the lesson.
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Next up it will be Manchester’s Gauleiter Andy Burnham who will doubtless lament the upset, confusion, blah, community relations, diversity is… brave police cunstables performing under pressure, keeping the peace and farrrr right activists will not be tolerated in our schools, blah…and sorry for the damage to the reputation of the muzzies, it won’t happen again and the school will be in detention all next week – well all those with white skin – and diversity is our strength, it has been a terrible weekend and farrrr right flags are to be banned… peace be upon you. Alan’s snackbar.
Bacon rolls for lunch.
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It is overdue for a croud funded legal action to seek to enforce the Education Acts which require no political lessons and balance in all tuition. I know the balance is not attempted. Before the Brexit vote I spoke in schools for Civitas who meticulously arranged for a pro-EU speaker to be there at the same time. Typically we each made a statement and then the pupils asked questions. I noted how pro-EU speakers were often well known to the teachers because they often visited the schools; I do not think it was for flower arranging lessons. I also noted how active engagement from the pupils often came to an end when a particular teacher entered the room. In one particular case I remember a teacher came in and made his disapproval of my remarks very clear from the back of the room and all pupils were aware he was there and watching what they said and asked. In Essex we still have a tax payer funded school which still uses the EU flag on its website to accurately show its political objectives. https://www.aesessex.co.uk/ That was one of the schools were I spoke. This father was right to try tyo… Read more »
To be fair, only about half of teachers and police are lefty Wayne Kers.
I think this will become more and more common as decent people start to push back against the insane shit that is being thrown at their children.
Good on you pal, England is with you.
Seconded.
I’m sick of this child abuse masquerading as education. And the subsequent heavy handed authoritarian interventions by the state storm troopers.
Once again, the State reveals itself as the enemy of the English people.
The establishment is very obviously entirely self serving and the general population is nothing more than a body of people to be pacified and controlled.
Their claims to be acting in the best interest of the population are no longer believable to anyone except the most stupid and deluded. But judging by the polls, there aren’t many of those. Most people are clearly done with these clowns.
“…pacified and controlled.”
And taxed.
Actually, the taxing part is more of a divide and conquer strategy.
More than half the population doesn’t work and is maintained by an ever shrinking productive population.
We are being divided in so far as the interests of the maintained part of the population and the productive part are very different.
Those two parts of the population are very unlikely to unite in any meaningful way against the state establishment. We want completely different things.
Good points. 👍
I blame the Fabians, because they’re the ones running the show but they’ve infiltrated all areas; ”This week I waded into the cesspit of Facebook under a Guardian article about police officers being forced to declare whether they are Freemasons. Among the thousands of comments one theme jumped out. People were asking why officers do not also have to declare if they are Fabians. On one level this is fantastic. People are finally waking up to the scale of Fabian infiltration in our public life. On another level it shows how much the real nature of Fabianism is still misunderstood. It is not about membership cards. It is not about a lodge or a handshake or a list of names on a register. That is the entire point. The objective of the Fabian project was never to create a mass club with visible members. It was to change how entire populations think without them realising they had been changed. The founders of the Fabian Society understood that revolution and overnight transformation would fail in Britain. Instead they developed what they called “permeation”, a slow and deliberate infiltration of institutions, teaching and language. They knew they had to spend generations pushing… Read more »
Eight police officers and not one of them has the skills to calm the situation? Seriously? I don’t care how shouty he was surely dialling the emotion down is what “proper” officers do. Presumably there wasn’t much experience there.
“Presumably there wasn’t much experience there.”
Or training.
There are daily videos on YouTube which show police personnel – officers my ar#e – behaving like ill educated thugs. These bits of kids in most cases haven’t got a clue about the law and regularly resort to bullying tactics both physical and verbal and quite frankly are an utter disgrace. I suppose the higher ranks have concluded that the partially educated and ill-trained but brain-washed school leavers are easier to control but it is a dangerous methodology.
You don’t think they’re being trained to act in precisely that way?
Eight police officers showing up to deal with one rowdy person is, I’m sure, their operating procedure.
As are the paramilitary uniforms.
Everything about modern policing seems to me to be deliberately designed to project maximum strength and intimidation.
Oh, I agree but there is a large element of plod who are clearly poorly trained and add that to a poor education and we have the bullies we see daily.
Eight officers to deal with one english person expressing an uncceptable opinion. If on the other hand rowdiness is expressed by a protected group, kid gloves are used.
Then police should be careful.
If things continue in this way and people get fed up actual violence might erupt. And people might want to get their own back on the police for their thuggish behaviour.
Everyone should behave with civility and restraint. But if the police are incapable of dealing with situations with the right proportional force are they not inadvertently inviting the population to respond accordingly?
It is confusing isn’t it, how often an arrest is made with the inclusion of assaulting an emergency worker. I am loathed to question the GMP, especially this week, when officers must be mortified by the outcome of events, but if someone is arrested for assaulting a police officer, they should be charged and taken to court, otherwise every thug will think it ok to attack an officer. If no assault actually took place, and obviously it didn’t, because he was released without charge, don’t try and fake the arrest. It demeans the police and allows us to question the neutrality of the force.
The question is – what was the arrestable offence?
As for “neutrality of the force” that has long since disappeared with the faeries.
Seems to me like they are getting desperate because they realise they have lost control of the narrative.
Or, the narrative is proceeding as desired.
There are many traitors amongst our people. The Great Civil War comes closer. I can hear the drums.
And it is curious how our people, when arrested or accused of something the state establishment doesn’t like, quickly spout the magic words ‘I’m not a racist, I have brown (friends/collegues/relatives – insert appropriate protection word)’ .
Stop playing their game. The insult ‘racist/racism’ doesn’t work anymore. Their magic was always sleight of hand. It was never really magic. Ignore their silly badge and be proud. We want our land for our people.
The teacher needs a final written warning, she and indeed other members of the teaching profession are there to teach, and by that I mean teach pupils ahow to read, write, matriculate, to teach them from books by great academics, to be critical thinkers, to learn this countries history. WHta teachers are not there to do is inflict their persoanl politics and indeed sexual preferences and identities on children who have to sit and listen to them, and who are not in a position to challenge due to the nature of the relationship.
This teacher abused her position to influence and indoctrinate children, it is unacceptable and if she wishes to continue in her job she needs to understand that.
Sounds to me like that teacher should be subject to a disciplinary process and encouraged to leave the “profession.”
The police are now clearly part of the State machine.
They have to lie to back up what they claim. If there was a single image of people making nazi salutes at one of these protests then it would have been the poster image spread across every bit of MSM repeatedly in order to discredit every hotel protest. It would be a wet dream for Mirror or Grauniad but it doesn’t exist.