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A mother who is pulling her daughter out of a London school is battling to see lesson plans, after being shocked about how their child spoke about white privilege and gender.
The school denied parent Clare Page's request to view some of the materials used in lessons, saying they were 'commercially sensitive'.
Mrs Page said she fears her child is being 'indoctrinated' and that white pupils are being told they are 'privileged simply because of their skin colour'.
Over the past three years she and her husband have become increasingly concerned about the Ofsted-rated 'good' Haberdashers' Hatcham College in southeast London.
The state secondary school used to be known as Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, but dropped the name of a 17th-century benefactor, Robert Aske, because of his links to the slave trade.
Most of its 1400 pupils are black or from an ethnic minority, while about 17 per cent are white.
Currently parents are allowed to ask to see a lesson plan but the school is not legally obliged to provide it.
Mrs Page has written to the Information Commissioner's Office about the issue.
A parent of a pupil at Haberdashers' Hatcham College (pictured) in London, is fighting to see 'secret' lesson plans after the school told her she could not see them. Clare Page believes the school is indoctrinating pupils about white privilege
Haberdashers' Hatcham College (Interim principal Rob Thomas pictured) have denied indoctrinating their pupils but conceded there were some mishaps in their lessons
'I am speaking out, because I think this is such an important issue,' Page told The Times. 'Parents have a right to know what is being taught to their children, and to expect that opinions and theories will not be presented to them as if they are fact.'
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