{"id":8068,"date":"2022-03-09T09:19:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T09:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8068"},"modified":"2022-03-09T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T11:42:21","slug":"kirills-bravery-and-the-dfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2022\/03\/09\/kirills-bravery-and-the-dfe\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirill's bravery and the DfE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tribute today to the 12-year old Russian schoolboy [Kirill] who challenged his teacher's statement that the war in Ukraine was necessary to halt Kyiv\u2019s aggression. \u00a0He argued with her when she said that Ukraine was a Nazi state and that it had started the war. <em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/russian-schoolboy-12-harassed-by-police-for-opposing-war-in-ukraine-g2wwc2pf0\">The Times<\/a> <\/em>reports\u00a0that the police went to the family\u2019s flat while his mother was at work and the boy was at home on his own. They hammered on the door and <span class=\"paywall-EAB47CFD\">turned off the electricity\u00a0<\/span>when he refused to open<span class=\"paywall-EAB47CFD\"> up. \u00a0Moscow's finest left a note for Kirill's mother telling her that she could be forcibly taken into custody if she did not report for questioning. \u00a0Kirill later told the <a href=\"https:\/\/barentsobserver.com\/en\/sections\/society\/novaya-gazeta-english\"><i>Novaya Gazeta<\/i><\/a> newspaper:\u00a0\u201cThey tell us that residents of Ukraine have been brainwashed, but it seems to me that we are being brainwashed here.\"<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This inspiring story brought to mind the recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/political-impartiality-in-schools\/political-impartiality-in-schools\">guidance<\/a> issued to schools by the DfE on their legal duties on political impartiality.\u00a0 In this, schools are directed not to encourage pupils to join campaigning groups, or take part in protests. \u00a0 \u00a0But what do schools do when they sincerely think that the government has gone completely off the rails?<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a good case for raising this issue in citizenship lessons because it's a significant question \u2013 and because we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tribute today to the 12-year old Russian schoolboy [Kirill] who challenged his teacher's statement that the war in Ukraine was necessary to halt Kyiv\u2019s aggression. \u00a0He argued with her when she said that Ukraine was a Nazi state and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}