LGBT protest at school

Urm serious question - what do, you mean by ‘all this’? I think what I’ve read about story books with different types of families is great as are story books with black or disabled children as characters, books were girls are the lead characters etc etc.

I’ve read more on this topic. And been thinking.

In my opinion these little children are too young for all this. Yes fine, answer any questions as and when they come up (as you would hope to do with any sex education) but they are only little and their questions will be simple as a poster previously put it ‘can 2 men dance together?’. Well said and in my opinion that’s the right level at that age.

Save all this for secondary school.

Umm, Anniebach, surely you don’t mean that children with same sex parents should be excluded. Or that only one parent should be allowed to pick up so that other children won’t realise that there’s two daddies?

Jane tbf I think there are some evangelical Christians who also believe this as well and not just across the pond. Generally speaking, where there’s homophobia there’s usually misogyny.

The problem ab is that children take the prejudices learned at home into the classroom and bully/upset other children. Schools can’t and shouldn’t ignore this. This isn’t just about LGBT but the whole range of potential discrimination - disability, race for example.

Just read on a humanist blog that some of the protesters outside the school announced that 'God created women for men' s pleasure'!
Call me racist and anything else you can think of but I can't help wondering why people who think like that actually live here. I'm just exasperated by it all.

I think one of the biggest issues with this is that people are calling it "sex education". It isn't; it's about how we welcome people who seem different to us in a way that makes us all equal.

Why do we need to delay telling our children that until they are at secondary school?

What a stupid response GG

Agree Eglantine.Theres a lot of mischief making around this topic some of which I believe springs from people’s own deep seated and maybe unconscious prejudices. The ante is consistently upped so that people seem to end up believing that detailed instructions on how to have gay sex is to be given.

If religion should be kept in the home, shouldn’t family life
styles be kept in the home ?

Oh maryeliza54 - good luck to you in your obvious quest to turn our little shits into angels.

There seems to be a lot of misinformation about what primary school relationship education is going to be.

Teaching children that different lifestyles exist
That people should be treated with respect even if their lifestyle is different to yours

And yes some of the children in your class will have two parents, one parent, step parents, no parents, same sex parents.

They can see that with their own eyes.

If other children hear discriminatory comments being made, what good would a quiet word do?

maryeliza

At my kids middle school circa 2004 a child was suspended for calling another child a black b........ the kids were 10!

Must not bring this thread down. must not... must...

I mean me there

Lol a ukip spokesman on LBC! Yes the P word was mentioned! Bit early I just had toast

I would hope the teacher would have a quiet word Mm.

Gonegirl

Yep this is going to be interesting.

As in most issues I can see both sides which is very annoying.

Maybe 11 plus ages would be more appropriate and a compromise??????

WTF are you listening to?

So GG a little Muslim child comes into school spouting homophobic comments s/he’s learned at home? What should the teacher do? Or of course any child parroting learned prejudice from any home?

What!!!!

(that to mycat

Fennel

Yes thankyou it is now compulsory.

Well, I think this was just asking for trouble. Deliberately provocative?

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