If white toddlers don’t grow up feeling shame, guilt, and sadness, a person of color somewhere may feel uncomfortable.

The Telegraph:

Playgroup teachers need an “understanding about white privilege” so toddlers can learn to “recognise racist behaviours and develop anti-racist views”, according to new guidance.

The new advice, drawn up as an alternative to the Government’s statutory guidance by representatives from unions and charities, said it was “time to challenge the widespread notion that ‘children do not see race’ and are colour blind to difference”.

It states that “children’s racial prejudice” is at risk of being “maintained or reinforced” unless teachers had specialist training to develop an “understanding about white privilege, systemic racism and how racism affects children and families in early years settings”.

On Saturday it was criticised by Conservative MPs for being the “wrong way to go about” combating racism as it risked early years learning “becoming some kind of political Soviet indoctrination session”.

It came a day after an official government report found that factors such as family structure, class, socio-economic background, geography, culture and religion had “more significant impact on life chances than the existence of racism”.

The new 128-page guidance – titled Birth to 5 Matters from the Early Years Coalition – was developed over the past six months by a 18-strong steering group including representatives from the National Education Union, the National Day Nurseries Association and the Association for Professional Development in Early Years.

Toddlers are one development stage above a baby.

It won’t be long until these anti-racist forces demand that white infants be forced to watch trauma videos of George Floyd, teaching them how evil they are because of the way they were born.

SCHOOLS watchdog Ofsted has downgraded a nursery because it has too few multi-cultural resources in its play area.

Stunned staff were also rebuked for not using self-evaluation forms well enough but were praised for the bond they have with the children.

The pre-school centre was rated as “requiring improvement” in Ofsted’s latest report. It claimed that children’s understanding of the world was not being developed.

Angry parents protested at what they saw as unfairness and a case of political correctness gone mad. One mother said: “It’s ridiculous that a superb nursery is being downgraded over something as silly as this.”

Another disgusted parent said: “They are being ticked off for not filling in self-assessment forms well enough. Yet they are highly praised for how they look after the children and how they bond with them. That to me is far more important than filling in a few official forms.

Ofsted inspector Clair Stocking told staff: “There are few multi-cultural resources, particularly in the role play area, that reflect a range of cultures and backgrounds to promote understanding of the world.”

The overwhelming majority of ­under-fives at Rascals Childcare centre in Rayleigh, Essex, are from a white British background but parents said staff were “constantly doing projects” to teach about Diwali and other world religious festivals.

Owner Nicola Martin said the ­nursery believed it made enough efforts to teach children about multi-culturalism and even had a Chinese New Year display on its wall when the inspection was carried out.

She said: “We have facilities for teaching multi-culturalism. We have posters and puzzles depicting other backgrounds. We hand out multi-cultural food. We just didn’t have all our multi-cultural posters out in that area on the day of the inspection. None of the parents have raised concerns.

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