‘Our Past Wasn’t Just Downton Abbey But Also Black Heroes Who Made History’

We were to have to relete on movies to tute us the Truth about the Black History if Schools Did the Job, Says Mirror Columnist Darren Lewis, WHO SHOULD IGNORE DINOSAUR CRITICS A MORE MORE DIVERSE CURRICULUMUMUMUM

17:21, 30 Dec 2024Updated 18:31, 30 Dec 2024

Darren Lewis is the Assistant Editor of Daily Mirror. He is also a mirror football into and produces a weekly news Column.

During the Holidays, my family and i watched a movie calmed the Six triple eight. It ‘the hero, the true story of the only all-black and all-female unit of the Women’s Army Corps to serve oversseas during the Second World War.

We’d already seen the inspirational movie hidden figure, focus on three african -american female mathicians who endured sexism and racism to make themed essential to the success of Early spaceflight.

I’d Also Already Watched the Tuskegee Airmen, About the Group of African-American Pilots Who Overcame Racist Pushback to Become of the Finst Fighters in the Second World War.

You’ll have probably seen Similar Movies. Spreads Glory Starring Denzel Washington Where We Learned All About the Unit of Free Black Volunteers who, Commanded by A White Officer, Fought Racism and Ignorance to Prove their Valour in Battle.

Maybe the 2013 Movie Belle, which Chronicles the Life of Dudo Belle who was born into slave and raising as an aristocrat in 18th Century London?

Or Ruby Bridges, the first Black Child to ATTEND an all-white school in the American South. Not in the 20s or 30s but in the sun year the beatles were formed – 1960.

Spreads you’ve seen the small axe film Series, providing an insight into the dyscrimination, resilience and triumph in the face of racism weaved by the Black community in britain, in participle of the 60s and 80s.

With a diverses school curriculum years ago, these movies not to be gateway into these important stories. We’d Already Know. SO WOUT OUR KIDS.

So Along Comes Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson with a Move to “Refresh” Our “Outdated Curriculum”, Only to Be Met this Week With A Wailing and a Gnashing of Traditionalists.

Opinion

Darren Lewis

To some critics whose business model Remains intransigence, the diversity they picked up from upstairs downstirs or downton abbey is all they are all interested in. They are aghast at anyering that upsets their ideas of the past.

Not only they will make the research and idea of ​​education, they are the idea of ​​the idea of ​​it as heresy. They try to worry or anger you into mestakenly believing an important plank of our history is being wiped out, Rather than corrected.

SOUGHT FOR HIS VIEW ON THE Potential Changes, Sir John Hayes, The Former Conservative Education Minister, Spluttered: “There’s a Canon of English Literature, there’s a factual basis to learning, and you can’t the facts to suit your political agenda.

Teachers’ Union nasuwt, The Association of School and College Leaders, The National Association of Head Teachers, National Education Union and Ocr, One of England, Wales and Northern I Five Main Exam Boards, Waould All Beg to Differ.

All have supperted the plans with the national education union insist the curriculum should “Prepare all students for modern, diversion britain”. Still, Sir John, 66, Was Standing His Ground.

“The pretense that some things count and oters don’t – that just swim intellectually rigorous,” he told the telegraph.

Filmmakers and Production Companies have, over Several Decades, Throwns Billions of Pounds Behind A Litany of Movies to Illustrate Just.

Most Open-Minded Parents and GrandParents Welcomers that Education. They Undersand we are living in a more enlightened World, Unlike the One they GREW up in. The Vitriol Says More About the Critics than The Plass.