woke-v1
The ten questions
These ten Yes/No items are the only scoring instrument. Sites, temporary PDFs, 12-month social feeds, and LinkedIn hiring pages are judged against them. See also the Rationale.
WO1
Mission priority
Yes if the mission or values page leads with identity and “equity,” not knowledge. “Diversity, inclusion, belonging, decolonise, anti-racist, LGBTQ+ affirming” appear in the first screen of About / Vision / Ethos; subject excellence or meritocratic ambition is secondary or missing.
WO2
Identity branding
Yes if protected-characteristic branding is house style. Rainbow lanyards, Progress flags, “pronouns in bio,” and staff email signatures with she/they are default on the public site and official social accounts, not limited to a one-day awareness post.
WO3
Sex/gender interchangeability
Yes if sex and gender are treated as interchangeable in policy. Behaviour, uniform, toilets, sport, or trips documents say pupils may use facilities or teams “matching gender identity,” with no parallel sentence protecting single-sex provision.
WO4
Toolkit adoption
Yes if a published “trans inclusion” or “affirmation” toolkit sits in the policies list, while there is no equally prominent sex-based safeguarding note.
WO5
Activist education
Yes if curriculum pages advertise activism as learning: “decolonising the curriculum,” “white privilege,” “lived experience as evidence,” or compulsory anti-racism training announced as a moral upgrade.
WO6
Hiring practices
Yes if recruitment and governor ads require DEI allegiance. Check vacancies pages and the school’s LinkedIn company and jobs listings.
WO7
Dedicated events
Yes if the calendar and social media over the past 12 months are campaign-led (Pride Month, Trans Day of Visibility, slogan work year-round).
WO8
Compelled speech
Yes if speech and “hate” policies list misgendering or “denying identity” as harm, but do not protect sex-realist belief.
WO9
External consultants
Yes if partners are one-sided (Stonewall, Mermaids, Diversity Role Models, BLM-branded groups) with no viewpoint-diverse counterparts.
WO10
Experiential authority
Yes if “lived experience” or microaggression reporting is treated as settled authority, with no mechanism to challenge the framework.