article_snippet.sent: Teachers complained Teachers are now expected to be 'frontline stormtroppers' in the fight against Islamist extremism in school, a conference has heard.
article_snippet.sent: Teachers said Teachers are now being forced to spy on children during sensitive discussions as a result of new-counter terrorism rules.
article_snippet.sent: Teachers said Teachers now feel nervous discussing controversial issues over fears Teachers will be pressured to report youngsters who share Teachers opinions.
article_snippet.sent: Teachers also claimed young people  feel unable to express there views on certain subjects, such as the Charlie Hebdo killings, for fear of being branded an extremist.
article_snippet.sent: Jan Nielsen, an NUT member from Wandsworth, south-west London, said: 'Jan Nielsen, an NUT member from Wandsworth, south-west London have to be clear that Jan Nielsen, an NUT member from Wandsworth, south-west London are being put in the position where Jan Nielsen, an NUT member from Wandsworth, south-west London are really being expected to be the frontline stormtroopers, who listen, who spy, and notify the authorities about students that Jan Nielsen, an NUT member from Wandsworth, south-west London may be suspicious of.'
article_snippet.sent: The conference heard an example of a student being pulled aside after prayers one Friday because children coming out of the prayer room were talking about extremism, despite the fact that the boy had put a strong argument against joining jihadi groups.
article_snippet.sent: The strategy suggests school staff can help to identify and refer youngsters whose behaviour suggests that school staff are being drawn into extremism or terrorism.
article_snippet.sent: In the wake of attacks on the Charlie Hebdo journalists there were, in some schools, Muslim pupils who did not feel the Charlie Hebdo journalists could say the Charlie Hebdo journalists were offended by the newspapers cartoons .
article_snippet.sent: Schools are places where that discussion, on ethical and political issues should take place, in an environment of enquiry, and it may be an environment where young people say things we don't like, or say things that concern we that we want to address with young people, that we want to discuss with young people. '
article_snippet.sent: We are hearing young people telling teachers that teachers don't want to discuss things, that teachers don't want to discuss what happened with the Charlie Hebdo shootings, young people who were offended by the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, but saying teachers don't want to say it in class, teachers don't want to say it in schools.
highlights_snippet.sent: National Union of Teachers discuss Government strategies on extremism .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Teachers also feel pressured to report youngsters for giving honest opinons .