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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Catherine Lough

Schools’ impartiality guidance has ‘chilling effect’ on discussions of extremism

PA Wire

The Government’s political impartiality guidance for schools is already having a “chilling effect” on discussions of controversial topics in schools, a union leader has said.

Patrick Roach, Nasuwt general secretary, said that pupils have their “own curriculum” regardless of what might be on the formal curriculum in schools, and that teachers were already raising concerns about what they could and could not discuss with pupils.

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