Fiji Willets, 18, didn't expect the topic of farming to come up when she signed up for the BTEC National Extended Diploma in Animal Management at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College.
Really? I mean, you'd think it'd be obvious from the title, if not the course outline..!
She joined after reading it was 'great for people who love animals' - but was shocked to discover the course could see her work on a farm and possibly visit an abattoir.
Oh, well, mustn't be too judgemental, maybe she's one of those ignorant townies who...
The teenager, whose mother used to be a veterinary nurse...
Oh.
...complained to tutors that she was suffering with anxiety over the module.
Ah, yes, 'anxiety'. It's the new 'get out of anything difficult' card. Initially, the college resisted, which is a welcome change. But eventually, were forced to surrender.
She enlisted the help of the Vegan Society - who once called on bosses to provide workers with their own vegan shelf - to fight her corner and together they complained to both the college, as well as the Education and Skills Funding Agency.
Despite being rejected twice, their complaints were eventually heard by exam board Pearson who decided the college could offer her an alternative module while taking the BTEC qualification.
Good luck getting a job now every employer knows that if you don't fancy doing part of it, you'll scream and scream until you're sick, Fiji...
14 comments:
Then they wonder why we call them snowflakes.
The exam body should have stood their ground in this case not cave into this useless snowflake. It was perfectly plain that a course in animal management would involve looking at farms and the food chain so there is no excuse for this girl to not know what the course was all about.
I noticed that this girl appears to own hens,which produce eggs, yet she involved the Vegan Society (not exactly one of the world's most tolerant entities) in her quest to be excused from a compulsory part of her course. Do I detect a little bit of a double standard on her part? I think I do, unless of course she is giving the eggs that these particular chickens,that have been selectively bred to produce lots of eggs, produce?
I certainly agree that this is one person who may well find that her employment opportunities are limited by her adult toddler tantrum as who in their right mind would employ someone who is liable to kick off at each and every opportunity?
You really couldn't make it up could you?
Doesn't one of the photos show her holding a cock?
But it's no different from those who take a job at a supermarket and then claim spurious religious reasons why they can't participate in the selling of alcohol. Or those NHS medics who decline to undertake some medical procedures because of their religious convictions. Those are all accommodated by snowflake employers despite their inability to fulfil their job description, so why not humour a vegan livestock student too?
The problem with the nobody will employ her theory is that lucrative jobs that are funded by the taxpayer are abundant for this kind of person. Being some kind of politically motivated activist is far more important than being actually useful in this sector.
It'th "I'll thcream and I'll thcream until I'm thick."
In true Violet Elizabeth fashion.
@Doonhammer "What delayed the great man"
Am considering suing my local adult education centre because, in my mathematics course, they want me to add up and subtract things. How very dare they?
Penseivat
It's a bit like a committed Quaker applying to join the army, but baulking at receiving combat training...
"The exam body should have stood their ground in this case..."
Absolutely! But they never do, and this is the biggest part of the problem.
"Those are all accommodated by snowflake employers despite their inability to fulfil their job description..."
Yes, indeed. And they shouldn't be.
"It's a bit like a committed Quaker applying to join the army, but baulking at receiving combat training..."
We'll probably have a real case of that before long!
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