Muslims, Schooling, Equality and bigotry.

Pisto_Grih

IMO, schools should actively be promoting the diverse types of humans the world contains. Teaching tolerance suggests there is a baseline, or standard, model of human, and that deviations from that norm should be tolerated, or at best, welcomed, but still relies on the trope that there is a standard that is deviated from. There is no "standard", merely an average.

maddy

Contrary to popular belief, Section 28 never applied to schools.

krish

Wikipedia ...

maddy

I see your Wikipedia and raise you lgbthistorymonth.org.uk:

https://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/1384014531S28Background.pdf

or BBC News | EDUCATION | Minister: Section 28 no 'effect on schools'

Greg Hook

Ooh link top trumps. Always good fun.

Sonic67

LGBT row teacher 'threatened by parents'

A primary school teacher says he has received threats from parents amid protests over teachings about LGBT rights and homophobia.

Demonstrations against the classes have been held outside Parkfield Community School in Alum Rock, Birmingham.

Assistant head Andrew Moffat, who is gay, said he had received "nasty emails" and threats, including one which warned he "wouldn't last long".

SteakAndCake

See comments in the article about confusing children.  That is just bullshine.  Kids believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and nothing about any of that hokum confuses them.

The only resistance to this is from parents trying to protect themselves from embarrassing conversations with children who lack the sexual and taboo hangups that their parents grew up with and never grew out of.

psikey

Yeh. Lets all have same sex relationships. If we ban IVF/suragots  at the same time we can start to reduce the ever increasing planetary population. Need to switch back when were down to a few million or we become extinct.

Trollslayer

Sonic67

A certain irony here in that it's said by a woman in a hijab.

'My LGBT teaching views are not homophobic'

The woman, who did not want to be identified, said Parkfield Community School is "planting ideas" in children's heads and "forcing" the lessons upon them.

'Teach kids about same-sex couples'