Pc Gone Mad! School And Ukip

[agchristie]

Well, what do you think?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/647539/Ukip-UK-Independence-Party-school-police-called-website

[-Talbot-]

Unbelievable ... still he will surely get about 15 million in compo for this!

[ummmm]

Nuts.

[agchristie]

I know schools are under pressure to spot signs of radicalisation but this is bizarre.

[Buenchico]

Quote:
"Police said the contact with the teen was not solely sparked by accessing the Ukip website".

Or, to put it another way, we've only been told half the story (which, in itself, is still pretty good for the Express!), so any meaningful comment is impossible.

[ummmm]

My Son is very interested in politics and religion and looks at loads of web pages with that are against his views.

[agchristie]

"Police said the contact with the teen was not solely sparked by accessing the Ukip website"

Buenchico, there could be any amount of explanations such as a classmate made up stories about him making the situation more serious. It doesn't necessarily mean the Express have misled readers.

[Svejk]

I was just going to post this story. Kids can 'pretend' to join the death cult, that is Islam, as an exercise. But woe betide them if they express an interest in the third largest political party in Britain.
Prepare yourself, ag, for abuse and denial from the AB lefty's. I see one has started already.

[agchristie]

Svejk, sorry to steal your thunder!

I think this could be a big talking point but hope it doesn't get too heated.

[ichkeria]

Buenchico's point is a very fair one and occurred to me also. If people really are being hauled up for looking at the UKIP website in school then that is crazy, but that one line does suggest there is more to it, even if it is only that someone was making up stories about him

[Togo]

//But he was stunned when teachers subsequently reported him to the police, claiming he had raised welfare concerns by visiting "politically incorrect websites". //

I remember not so long ago, after pointing out that our schoolchildren had been subject 20 years of N.U.T left wing propaganda, to a few sarcastic barbs questioning my marble collection. If further proof is to be found please advise. If I was that lads father, weeeellll the next talk with the 'school' would be interesting. He is not being encouraged by them to explore all sides of the question is he?

[Togo]

Probably looking at porn or getting youtube up Buen. every kid at school can likely hack the school system. My lad could.

[jourdain2]

If true, then that is completely out of line. If a kid were to be looking at another website when he was supposed to be studying a, say Geography, site with the class, then he should be disciplined, but this sounds bonkers.

[Togo]

Are you all aware that the schools your children and grandchildren attend can set filters to block access to sites? Good thing in the blurb. Now who decides what is to be denied? What if the decision is being made 'on your behalf' that children are only to countenance one avenue of 'thought'. Goebbels must writhe in agonies of jealousy.

[vulcan42]

" Police said the contact with the teen was not solely sparked by accessing the Ukip website". This could have been put out by the police themselves to make it look more important then it appears.

[agchristie]

Togo - yes, good point. If he looked at anything else that the school deemed off limits it would suggest a complete lack of filters.

[naomi24]

//Police said the contact with the teen was not solely sparked by accessing the Ukip website.//

... but gave no indication of any other reason. What do I think? I think we should think very seriously about the suitability of the people we are allowing to teach our children.

[ichkeria]

Well plainly the UKIP website is not blocked at that school :-)
It's very good that children are interested in political party websites. With so many people disappearing from the electoral rolls, and younger people being denied the vote, at least it shows there is interest there.

[Togo]

Or he got around the filters ag. My daft lad key logged the school sec. in computer club. Only got rumbled when he was the only one who could 'log' on in a class of 22. Sheesh. Trouble I had.

[Hypognosis]

"This is just another shocking example of the pervasive left-wing culture which has infected large parts of Britain's public service."
UKIP education spokeswoman Louise Bours

"pervasive"
"infected"
"left-wing culture"

Such balanced terminology being used, there. How she got wind of the past voting records of all those £30k+ earning teachers and head teacher (why in the world would anyone in that tax bracket vote Labour? It's beyond me) is anyone's guess.

Rant over.

A complete over-reaction and waste of police time, if you ask me. Maybe go door to door, find a day-old, unsolved, burglary case. That should stir the pot a bit.

If he'd made *multiple* or *habitual* visits to the EDL website, using the school computer to cloak his ID then, sure, Book'im, Dan-o. How a single visit to the UKIP site was above the action trigger threshold is beyond me.

Unless what they are looking for is computers with previous EDL visits logged, subsequently visiting UKIP's site, possibly attempting to infiltrate it or at least post the kind of stuff you see in comments sections.

Even if UKIP makes every effort to not be racist, some of the hangers-on are doing their level best to make the social networks' echo chambers reverberate to the kind of messages the EDL would like to propogate.

[Hypognosis]

"
Mr Taylor said his son had also accessed the English Defence League (EDL) website before Christmas after the pair watched a BBC documentary by former leader Tommy Robinson.

The UKIP voter said he regularly discusses political issues including immigration and the EU with his son, but that he is free to form his own world opinions.

He said: "I was furious that they flagged him for looking at the UKIP website. I think it's outrageous really.
"
-Mr Taylor, the pupil's father.