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There has been a recording circulating in which a teacher at Oulder Hill Community School in Rochdale is berating a student for wearing a Palestine face mask. The teacher's aggression is unjustified, her views have no factual basis & her attitude has no place in an educational institution.

I believe that this school is denying students their freedom of speech in regards to the current conflict in Palestine by banning students at the school from wearing Palestine masks/bracelets.

The apparent reasoning for this is that 'Oulder Hill is not a political school'. If students are allowed to wear poppies & things of that sort which are inherently political, why are they not allowed to wear a Palestine mask? Why is that cause in particular being singled out?
They should either ban ALL political symbols & maintain an equal policy OR they should allow students to wear whatever political symbols they like (aside from affiliation with hate groups of course).

Schools should be nurturing children & helping them expand their mental capacity, they should be able to discuss politics in a respectful manner in a so called place of learning. Why are they being silenced when trying to express solidarity w/ Palestine?

The teacher can be heard shouting in a rather aggressive manner which seems unjustified. I would be the first person to condemn anti-Semitic views if that was the case but from what I can gather, the teacher was shouting at the student for wearing a Palestine mask & proceeded to make ridiculous remarks.

One of the remarks was "my descendants could be Israeli Jews that Palestinians could have killed, how would that make me feel?"
Well, prior to 1948 there was no such thing as Israel, it is an apartheid colonial-settler state, if your ancestors are Jewish people from that area, they would have been Palestinian. If I said something like "my ancestors could have been German Nazis that Jewish people could have killed, how would that make me feel?" you would all laugh in my face because it is an idiotic remark, just like the teachers.
The student said "Babies & children are getting killed for no reason" and the teacher immediately denied this despite having no real knowledge of the situation. Babies and children ARE being killed. Why is she denying a real-life atrocity and misleading this student?
I could go on & on but you can all listen to the conversation yourself & come to your own conclusion.

Everyone learns things at different points in their life & some people might just be genuinely naive. I get that. What I don't get though is having such a defensive manner about something you clearly don't know anything about. We always see people ask "how could this happen" when learning about horrific acts in history such as genocide, slavery, ethnic cleansing ect & the answer is always "bEcAuSe PeOpLe StAyEd SiLeNt".
Well what are you encouraging right now in your school? You are encouraging children to stay silent & submissive and punishing them for having basic human empathy- it all feels rather dystopian.

I have been forwarded screenshots of the teachers facebook & she has shared petitions calling for the ban of mass immigration & calling for the ban of slaughtering animals w/o pre-stunning- I'm going to take a wild guess & assume Mrs Rees isn't a vegan, she most likely  has a problem with Islamic slaughter of animals in particular. I also always find it amusing that people see no problem with Britain colonising 3/4 of the world & fuelling wars in other countries  but have a huge problem with immigration but that is a topic for another day. I think that you can get an idea of what sort of political views she holds (which is entirely her choice). However, these are now questionable after hearing her conversation & considering that she works in a multi-cultural school. How far do the racial biases really go? How do they effect the students?

I believe that the hypocritical policy & the teachers in question should be investigated with immediate effect. I believe that the students should have the right to wear Palestine masks & bracelets. There is nothing immoral about a peaceful protest for a just cause.

Today they'll ban students from simply wearing a mask, tomorrow they may ban something else. This isn't only about the current conflict in Palestine, it is also about values such as freedom of speech & expression. Children go to school to learn, not to be censored & bullied into teachers political views.