A peculiar one from The Telegraph :

Teacher who said child was ‘white trash’ convicted of race crime

Jane Turner intervened in a heated argument between a group of children near a school to help end it.

However, during the dispute a parent of one of the children reported hearing her say: “Go and play with your own little white friends, you’re nothing but white trash.”

After she was reported to police, Mrs Turner initially denied using the phrase but later admitted she had said “white trash” and has since apologised.

Mrs Turner was working at Moseley School, a specialist language college in Birmingham, when the incident took place almost 20 miles away.

She was convicted at Halesowen Magistrates Court of an offence of using racially threatening words or behaviour likely to cause harassment or distress.

She was made subject of a community order for one year with a requirement to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work and was ordered to pay compensation of £50.

The General Teaching Council also investigated and yesterday announced its conclusions, criticising her for “unacceptable professional conduct” but stopping short of suspending her from teaching over the incident which took place in April 2009.

The GTC committee reported: “Mrs Turner witnessed a dispute between a group of young people near school premises, more than 20 miles from the school in which Mrs Turner taught.

“Mrs Turner intervened in the dispute and in the heat of the moment was observed by a parent of one of the other children saying: “Go and play with your own little white friends, you’re nothing but white trash.”

“Mrs Turner accepts that making a comment like this amounts to unprofessional conduct.

“Mrs Turner accepts that her words on this occasion may have been perceived as racist and that it is entirely inappropriate for a Registered Teacher to make such a comment.

For a start, I’m not sure how it was racially threatening at all unless, of course, Mrs Turner is not white but we are none the wiser on this point from the article.

It would appear that one of the (probably white trash) parents objected to the slur on their little darling and decided to play the race card to ensure that the police would do something – as if they have no criminals to catch or anythign like that.

One more reason the UK is becoming more and more like 1984 in my mind – thoughtcrimes being openly pursued in the courts  leaving everyone in fear of saying anything at all.

Labour may have been kicked out on their arse but their rotting corpse of a legacy still stinks up the whole land.