EDUCATION

Contested racial views taught as fact, says pressure group

Don’t Divide Us warns of ‘radical script’ pushed by third-party providers
Don’t Divide Us said that young children were being indoctrinated while at school
Don’t Divide Us said that young children were being indoctrinated while at school
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Pupils are being subjected to a “radical script” in the teaching of a controversial racial ideology that teaches contested political beliefs as fact, a new report has warned.

Impartiality laws are being broken in schools as critical race theory — or the idea that racism is entrenched in society — is taught by third-party providers, the pressure group Don’t Divide Us said.

It claimed that the curriculum was being “re-racialised” with the providers’ political beliefs creating “a relationship between schools and ideologically motivated businesses”.

Its advisory board includes Dr Tony Sewell, whose compiled a report into ethnic disparities for Boris Johnson.

Its report found that some outside educators say that “being colour-blind is not an option”, while others risk trivialising racism by comparing it to