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   https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/rudakubanas-school-knew-he-was-trouble/

   Following that meeting, Hodson wrote the email in which she warned staff about Rudakubana’. She remarked on his ‘sinister undertone’, that ‘there was never any sense of remorse or accountability for his actions’. It is worth repeating that Hodson is a highly-experienced professional, with many years of experience supporting children with very complex needs. So when she said ‘I’ve never come across a pupil like [Axel Rudakubana]’, we must take her seriously.

   Unfortunately other professionals had different ideas. Hodson prepared an education plan for Rudakubana in which she described him as ‘sinister’ and ‘cold and calculating’. An unnamed mental health worker challenged this, accusing Hodson of racially profiling ‘a black boy with a knife’. The headteacher told the inquiry that the accusations ‘shut her up’ and ‘closed her down professionally’. Hodson agreed to remove those remarks from the plan, despite what she described as a ‘visceral sense of dread’ that Rudakubana was ‘building up to something’ and that she feared the boy would bring a knife to Acorns.

   This is the sinister power of equality doctrine. Even highly experienced professionals feel cowed, doubt their own professional judgment and soften their language. To be thought ‘racist’ can end a career.

   https://archive.ph/6HwyX