Ah, the priorities of an England too ashamed of its own culture and history.

Speaking out against forced marriages is too "hard-hitting."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article3549159.ece

But expressing support for a war which is, in part, fighting the very people who seek to destroy Western civilization: that's unacceptable!

"We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy." — Churchill, Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, 30 December 1941.

I imagine Churchill is spinning in his grave.

Mark, Chicago, Illinois, USA,

Don't see any outcry from teachers when the national curriculum includes brain-washing our children that unproven theories on man-made climate change are facts. Presumably that's because social engineering and redistribution of wealth justified by weak science is acceptable to their left-wing world view.

Mike, Bristol, UK

Ironically, the comments so far illustrate exactly why this lesson plan is a good idea. Public discourse in the UK tends to be of very low standard because schools don't teach the techniques of valid argumentation.

Learning to present an argument has nothing to do with whether you think the War was a good thing or a terrible thing. It has to do with being able to identify valid arguments and fallacies.

If British schoolchildren grew up able to distinguish a valid argument from a fallacy, much of the idiotic tribalism in British politics would gradually disappear as voters learned to evaluate policies, not just to follow a party.

Mind you, the Government should be careful what is wishes for. If it educates the public in valid argumentation, it will become much more difficult to fool the voters.

jon livesey, Sunnyvale, CA/USA