The British government has instructed schools not to “teach contested theories and opinions as fact,” including contested views about so-called “white privilege.” The government on Thursday published its response to a report from the UK Parliament’s Education Select Committee, which said that the use of terms such as “white privilege” may be one of the reasons white working-class pupils are persistently falling behind. In a report published in June, the committee said that its 14-month inquiry on left-behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds had shown that “poor white pupils are far from ‘privileged’ in education.” The committee said that it agreed with the UK’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities that discourse around the term “white privilege” can be divisive, and that disadvantage should be discussed without pitting different groups against each other. In its response to the report (pdf), the government said, “Schools must not promote partisan political views …
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