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22-28. May will all schools in Drammen mark a diversity week. The week builds on values that teachers actively convey every day, such as respect, equality and inclusion.
The importance of creating a place that is experienced as inclusive and a good place to be is an overriding principle. We humans need to belong, and school is the biggest social arena for children outside the family that helps to build up belonging.
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Outsiders indicate that you don’t belong. The multicultural school in Drammen has a huge challenge to ensure that none of our students experience this. If the values the school conveys go against the values you learn at home, the students are put in a difficult situation where they have to choose a side.
Diversity Week is marked by raising of the rainbow flag in all schools. This is not a neutral symbol, but a flag that is actively used in a political and ideological battle about the fact that there are several genders and that one can be born in the wrong gender. A way of thinking that not all families recognize as truth.
In that the politicians in our city, using a controversial symbol to mark diversity at school means that I, as a teacher, feel that the work I do every day to create an inclusive school is being established.
I learn that use of the flag repels pupils rather than building up real diversity.
How about switching fly the flag with the municipality’s own flags, and show that it is good to live in Drammen municipality, we all belong here?
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