₦airaland Forum

As soon as my son got back here for secondary education and they started teaching him about pillars of is'lam and hindu religion, I knew I had to return him to Nigeria to get the best of secondary education especially when one considers that they play to learn here and hard work is not part of the British ethos. Even when we changed his school, it was the same government curriculum so we decided enough was enough of the nonsense. We took action before they destroy all the effort we put in to raise a decent child.

frenchman:
I know for sure evil cannot last forever.
Where are the Eru o bodos, the Akinloyes, the Abachas of this world??

no pun intended but the above is borne out of ignorance or naivety. The guys you mentioned are nowhere tobe found today but they have destroyed the economic lives of several Nigerians. People need to act to change situations and make things better rather than waiting for the perpetrstors of evil to be swept away with time.

The people who chopped Nigeria into it's current state have their children enjoying in various parts of the world while the common man continues to struggle.

My point is that people need to stand up and let evil people know that they will not be tolerated rather than a situation where you let them run free thinking God will descend with angels to change your GDP

Is this not pushing it down their throats?

"Schools should make efforts to talk inclusively about same-sex parents

why the efforts to teach them about abnormal families?

Just watching and letting 4Him answer this man who would rather have his children grow up to become homosexuals

bawomolo:
homosexuality is normal, it happens among most animals. most scientists are leaning towards a genetic cause for homosexuality. there are much bigger issues such as crime and corruption. homosexuality should be the least of your worries

homosexuality is abnormal and I dont care what western scientists try to tell me about it. corruption and crime they are not so much worse than homosexuality.

I'd rather not have my kids raised thinking that it is normal to be homosexual. I'd rather my kids do not get influenced so much by western madness as to become homosexuals

School teachers will now teach kids to make them believe that homosexuality is a normal thing.

Very scary indeed: my kids have to grow up in Nigeria!!!

Don't say mum and dad, teachers told not to assume pupils have heterosexual parents

Summary: Teachers should not assume that their pupils have a "mum and dad" under guidance aimed at tackling anti-gay bullying in schools.

It says primary pupils as young as four should be familiarised with the idea of same-sex couples to help combat homophobic attitudes.

Teachers should attempt to avoid assumptions that pupils will have a conventional family background, it urges.

It goes on to suggest the word "parents" may be more appropriate than "mum and dad", particularly in letters and emails to the child's home.

When discussing marriage with secondary pupils, teachers should also educate pupils about civil partnerships and gay adoption rights.

The guidance - produced for the Government by gay rights group Stonewall - will be formally launched today by Schools Secretary Ed Balls.

It states that children who call classmates "gay" should be treated the same as racists as part of a "zero tolerance" crackdown on the use of the word as an insult.

Teachers should avoid telling boys to "be a man" or accuse them of behaving like a "bunch of women".

This sort of rebuke "leads to bullying of those who do not conform to fixed ideas about gender", the guidance states.

At the same time, schools should encourage gay role models among staff, parents and governors. Homosexual staff should be able to discuss their private lives after the consultation with the head teacher.

In advice to gay staff, it states: "School culture and ethos determines how open staff are about their private lives, and you should therefore seek advice and guidance from your head."

The Department for Children, Schools and Families commissioned Stonewall to write the guidance jointly with lobby group Education Action Challenging Homophobia.

It says that pupils aged four to seven should "understand that not all pupils have a mum and a dad" and learn about different family structures.

Advice to teachers of 11 to 14-year-olds states: "Schools should make efforts to talk inclusively about same-sex parents, for example, avoid assuming all pupils will have a "mum and dad".

"When schools discuss marriage, they may also discuss civil partnership and adoption rights for gay people."

In a section on engaging with parents, it asks schools: "Do you talk about 'parents' instead of assuming all pupils have 'mum or a dad'?"

The advice goes on to urge teachers to challenge every derogatory use of the word gay to avert homophobic attitudes.

Examples include "those trainers are so gay", "that pencil case is so gay" or "you're such a gay boy".

One primary teacher quoted in the guidance said: "We hear 'gay' as a term of abuse every single day. The children may not know exactly what it means, but they know they are using it as an insult. That's why we need to tackle it at this stage."

Controversy over the semantics of the word erupted two years ago when the BBC ruled that Radio One DJ Chris Moyles was not being offensive to homosexuals by using the word "gay" to mean "rubbish".

The advice says: "It is important for all staff to challenge pupils, explaining the consequences of using 'gay' in a derogatory way.

"It might be time-consuming at first, but a consistent 'zero-tolerance' approach to such language is central to achieving progress and an environment in which being gay is not thought of as being inferior."

It adds: "Schools need to make it clear to pupils that homophobic comments are as serious as racist comments, and homophobic incidents are as serious as other forms of bullying."

Teachers should use every curriculum subject to nip discriminatory attitudes in the bud.

English lessons for teenagers, for example, could focus on the emotions of the gay Italian soldier Carlo in Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

The guidance is being published five years after the repeal of Section 28 - the law which banned the promotion of homosexuality in schools.

Ministers promised the move would make no difference to the teaching of homosexual matters but some critics have claimed the gay lobby is having a growing influence on pupils.

Next month is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month, where pupils learn about apparently gay figures from history including Leonardo da Vinci, Oscar Wilde and James Dean.

Mr Balls, who will launch the anti-bullying guidance at a Stonewall conference today, said: "I am proud the Government and the department are being robust about this.

"It is our view that every school should have a clear policy on tackling all forms of bullying, including homophobic bullying."

http://www.thecctv.org/thecctv/newsroom/mumanddad.htm

oyb:
bowsing through this, i can conclude we have the same problem -

nigerians get 99% of their facts/perceptions about AAs from the media

AAs get 99% of their facts about nigeria from the media

all this noise about sagging pants, bling etc - is sort of like someone using agberos as benchmark for lagosians. it is unfair to use idle rich( successfil musicians and athletes from ghetto roots) as a benchmark for all black americans

in the same way, it is also unfair to use scammers, and corrupt politicains - who constitute less than 1% of nigeria's 200 million plus popultion as a benchmark for nigeria

Good talk

It can work if they are noon-practising and nominal. However, if one is a practising christian and the other a practising I slamist, it cant work!!!

Stop decieving yourselves and stop getting into relationships that are bound for trouble. It's unlikely that you'll find any practising/true christian involved in a relationship with a mo slim anyway, except silly and greedy girls.

D-reloaded:
Blatant, why do you constantly feel the need to respond to my comments? Is it by force

In case you havent noticed, I usually ignore you on purpose as all you ever direct towards me is snide and juvenile comments that frankly I don't care for. I don't refer anything to you so it'd be nice if you could do the same

Who the hell said anything about complete independence? Unless you're blind, i believe I made it clear that I believe when it come sto family situations, bills should be split. The same oyb I was agreeing with, I don't see you bothering him.

There's a reason some guys want complete control with such things. It's because if they decide to waste the money that should be for the family on something stupid and irrelevant, they can say to their wives "well it's MY money, so you have no right to speak". Bills and such should be split so the marriage is more of a partnership and husband and wife can then make decisions TOGETHER. I know that's such a foreign/"westernized" concept for some control freaks.

Seriously leave me be. Thank You.

I just hope and pray you end up with someone like you so that you can have the fruits (misery) of your ways.

romeo:
WTF do you mean by that? It is a million times better to be an African than being a "black American" Mr. man!! African immigrants are better than you guys in your own country and with even a better shot at the white house. He was not an African American when he started campaining for the presidency, but now he's an African American and not an African immigrant.

And who told you we need a place where the homeless and hungry ones can eat? we are not that lazy like you people except countries where there are wars.
Are Continental Africans in America hungry and homeless? They are not because they get educated and work very hard to live a better life in a nation of opportunities, quite unlike their American brothers and sisters.

With all those things they put on their teeth they look like killed goats in a funeral

Good talk

Adeboo, nice pic

D-reloaded:
Lol exactly. It's pretty sick.

it's actually sick for a woman to seek complete independence.

No wonder some girls here have plenty of miserable years ahead of them

oyb:
chancing you? no you are in control . . .you are the sole captain of the ship - (even if you wife has all the free cash )

Although I am the head of the family, we are still in a partnership. She sure has more money tucked away from earnings than me BUT she knows that I can command more things than she can.

Make I no talk too much

D-reloaded:
You Nigerians have a twisted view of marriage. It's quite disgusting.

Hopefully you're not a Nigerian

Please dont ever marry a Nigerian. Go and find your type

Nobody can ever convince me to allow my kids do all their early academics in UK. A child who has taken in Nigeria's system early in life will excel when they get to the UK because they will have learnt to work hard academically and they are likely to get more from classes as they are less likely to be involved in excessive truancy which dominates UK students now.

Most of my friends have the same views and their kids will only come back after secondary education in Nigeria.

My wife pays the council tax and I pay every other bill; including putting petrol in her car sometimes and servicing it. She just dey chance me anyhow

FCK1:
Hi everyone!
I've been reading through this thread, and I was struck by something. Having lived in DC, growing up in the journalistic community and now living in the UK, I can pretty much, categorically state that the "on the record", "off the record" rules are the same on both sides of the pond. And that is the kicker here! You see, the rules of an interview are agreed to IN ADVANCE! not retrospectively! It's like being pulled over by a cop and saying: "let me just put this joint out, oh, by the way, i didn't just say that officer". You don't just blurt something out, try to cover yourslef afterwards and start crying foul about it if it doesn't work. By the way, you guys can refresh my memory, didn't the whole Nixon tapes thing come out because someone blurted out something along the lines of "oh, that'll be on the tapes, " and then wished he'd never opened his mouth? picking up on things like this is what real journalism is all about.
Had there been an agreement beforehand (like there was about not reveling Prince Harry's posting in Afghanistan, oh, wait a minute, that was an american "journalist" who broke that one and put people's lives at risk), or had the spokesperson even prefaced her comment with "what i'm about to say is off the record", or, even better "can I speak off the record for a minute?" (and then wait for affirmative reply), I'd agree with you. But there wasn't.
Still, sorry to hear she had to bite the bullet on this one. Politics is a tough business!

Thanks for the reminder about the hopeless american journalist who reported Harry's mission and put many lives at risk

Big B1:
Thanks for your great response:

"OFF THE RECORD" in United States and Ajegunle means "between you (interviewer) and myself, I did not say what I'm getting ready to say"
This agreement between both parties is also based on the interviewer's integrity and trust.
But I guess in UK, integrity means absolutely nothing (original Nigerian style).

I could also remember another jackass interviewer (Martin Bashir) from UK, that almost ended Michael Jackson's life few years ago; all because this idiot wanted to be known (as the champion).

These fame hungry individuals should remain on the other side of the sea.

To say that integrity mean nothing in UK is to speak without thought. Americans don't even know what integrity means. If you know what integrity means, you wont be a deceitful leader believing something and saying so but expecting that nobody should know about it.

Perhaps you are confusing the meaning of integrity with, side kro kro politics.

Did the interviewer agree beforehand not to publish certain aspects of the interview?

BTW, you already stated yourself that, it is the meaning in the United States and it does not have to apply to every other Nation or are you one of those who believe that whatever applies in America has to apply everywhere else? I am sure you're not one of those

I like this thread o

Many Nigerians probably make a conscious effort to distance themselves from Nigerians by imbibing and digesting all that CNN and it's likes feeds to them. They are very easily dismissive of Nigeria and everything Nigerian.

It should not suprise anyone when foreigners do it

I was in Benue State several years ago and I did not notice any such thing

I am beginning to get sick and tired of people who have nothing else on their minds but references to tribal affiliations. THESE SAME PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS QUICK TO BOW TO THE WHITE MAN

Can we not just discuss issues without unnecessary diversions? I am not saying there should be no mention od tribal affiliations but we should bettress our points and not throw tribal sentiments at every issue without thinking.

Perhaps that is one of the reasons we are unable to progress: an unwillingness to realise that there is a time for everything and there is a place for everything!
It is unwise to throw baseless remarks when people are having a sensible discussion or debate.

stupid people always want to attribute every bad thing to Nigeria and every good thing to OYINBO. The same people will later tell you how much they love Nigeria

such an unwarranted attack on a journalist!

Must a journalist dance to the tune of everyone he/she interviews? I do know that you need to be prepared when being interviewed by any journalist in this country. You cant get interviewed and afterwards expect British journalists to take out some of the things you said. I dont think it applies in the UK.

I have never had to tell any journalist that any of my remarks is OFF RECORD.

My grouse with this ill-educated man is the fact that he did not allude to the reasons why the North is unable to compete with the South economically. He also conveniently ignored the fact that for several years, Northerners lived on selling contract papers rather than making any meaningful contribution to the Nation State.

A friend of mine rebelled and had to resign in annoyance from CBN when an NCE graduate (Mallam) was made his departmental manager several years ago - my friend is a chartered accountant. His manager actually said to him that he needed to go and learn to speak Hausa and taunted him by speaking to him in Hausa.

I dont know if this can happen in Nigeria again but it happened in the mid-90s

What exactly is wrong with Okeke being a pizza delivery boy or wanting to get married?

tRoOE:
[/font]I wonder what type of mentality you have
[font=Garamond]What planet are you from
[Why do you people love to bring Gods name in irrelevant issue and stop misinterpretation of the bible if you do not know it.

Too many hypocrites oh Nairaland, and are you God because i don't know who gave you the audacity to criticize others people actions
Some people brain works like a fish one , and you need to enlighten yourself/thinking and get out of that stupid mentality.

You have decided to bash everyone who doesn't seem to see things from your point of view!!!


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