dealtn wrote:Roanch21 wrote:Interested in a second opinion on wether I’m being unreasonable here.
You are not being unreasonable to be concerned how your child is being educated. It would be unreasonable for any headmaster not to engage in dialogue responding to any concern. I would raise such if it concerned me sufficiently.
I would certainly be on the phone to the school head asking if this is within policy. If not then either the head should fix it or the next call would be to the LEA.
The one case where this might be OK is if what was being taught was media bias. And in that case I'd expect that the following week an editorial from the Telegraph could also be used to show how both papers introduce bias in different and opposite ways.
But as a comprehension exercise it is inappropriate to use an ideologically biased opinion piece. I suspect the piece aligns with the teacher's own personal biases and he thought he would just slip it in as a little impromptu indoctrination, and that is not on. And I would say the same if the piece instead was biased to the right. Just pick a neutral topic for comprehension study, and keep your political views at home.