sorry i know we all bang on but within my lifetime it was unlawful to tell school kids that being gay is fine https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1310870440622149634

and as stan says, british education - and culture - is absolutely awash with rw ideas: individualist meritocracy, class contempt, worthy and unworthy work, smart kids and stupid kids, good and bad kids etc etc https://twitter.com/tristandross/status/1310905509386612736?s=19

there are very very few "british values" that are fundamentally not quite rightwing, imho.

where leftwing ideas - like antiracism - are introduced in schools, this is not some illegitimate deviation from the function of schooling. all schooling replicates culture and is never neutral. obviously. it can't do anything else

god this country is so annoying