Sex education in school should stick to scientific facts and well away from opinion i.e. there are two biological sexes, this is how the bodies are formed, this is what sex is, this is the legal age for sex in this country and how a woman gets pregnant and avoids getting pregnant. The state has no role other than that.
Funnily enough, the difficulty with this view comes largely from parents.
I understand the prevailing view round these parts that schools are hotbeds of Cultural Marxism but the reality is that most teachers in most schools would quite like an easy life. Sure you can dig up an activist with with 500 Pride flags and an earnest desire to teach 8-year-olds about masturbation if you care to, but most teachers would much rather be getting on with something else.
One of the things that potentially stops them doing this, and forces them to be very careful indeed, is the parents of transgender kids. If Miss Jones tells Hawthorn class that there are two biological sexes and that's that, she'd better be sure there isn't a gender questioning child sitting at the back, with an enthusiastically supportive parent whose job affords them ample time to spend all day emailing the headteacher demanding a meeting and writing angry letters to Ofsted.
There are 20,000ish primary schools in the UK. For most of them, 'on the one hand, and on the other' isn't a smokescreen to conceal their indoctrination programme: it's a comfotably vague fudge to get them through the day.
If the govt and school has guidelines (they all do) and enough people to carry them out that is as good as all teachers having the same opinion. Maybe most would like to avoid it but they will keep quiet if it means they will lose their jobs, won’t they?
If the teacher teaches there are only two sexes when Ofsted are in they will be in serious trouble. The fish rots from the head, that's true. But there are an awful lot of people who agree with the Cultural Marxism and the rest will keep quiet for "a quiet life"
Did these teachers succeed in turning your children against you? I suspect they didnt, but if they did then I respectfully and genuinely apologise for my presumption.
I take your point about keeping quiet ('all that is necessary for evil to triumph' and so on), but I'll maintain my assertion that in a school community of any size, the keenest activists on any side will usually be the parents.
PS Ireland’s sentence for rape of a vulnerable child is, very late in the day, a judicial step in the right direction. However, would he have received a similar stretch if his target for self indulgent sexualised abuse of power had been a 12 year old girl ? With gender violence and rape prosecutions and convictions at a disgustingly low level across both the UK and Ireland, just what is this lived daily harsh reality for so many, so widely reported in the msm with ghoulish glee, teaching our children about how we, as a society, think and behave about sex ?
Thanks for this report on the report. Teaching about our sexuality needs to be placed into a far wider framework than just the educational one. Until such time as we recognise that we all learn in our earliest years by mimicking what we see around us; our parents, siblings, neighbours and the emotional equivalent of heroin -visual and social media. Children are like sponges and notice and hear - everything. Sexualised clothing in Sainsbury’s TU fashion section can arguably be seen as just as harmful as viewing softporn. I am very aware of the social harm that is inflicted upon young minds being of a generation and from a background that normalised Lolita, unerage sex (see The Tavistock Institute research from the 1970s) and took me along to PIE charity fundraisers as a teen. How we, as ibdividuals, as families, communities and politically controlled societies choose to enact and honestly present our daily lived sexual selves to our children must be at the centre of this social discussion and inform all else.
Sex education in school should stick to scientific facts and well away from opinion i.e. there are two biological sexes, this is how the bodies are formed, this is what sex is, this is the legal age for sex in this country and how a woman gets pregnant and avoids getting pregnant. The state has no role other than that.
Funnily enough, the difficulty with this view comes largely from parents.
I understand the prevailing view round these parts that schools are hotbeds of Cultural Marxism but the reality is that most teachers in most schools would quite like an easy life. Sure you can dig up an activist with with 500 Pride flags and an earnest desire to teach 8-year-olds about masturbation if you care to, but most teachers would much rather be getting on with something else.
One of the things that potentially stops them doing this, and forces them to be very careful indeed, is the parents of transgender kids. If Miss Jones tells Hawthorn class that there are two biological sexes and that's that, she'd better be sure there isn't a gender questioning child sitting at the back, with an enthusiastically supportive parent whose job affords them ample time to spend all day emailing the headteacher demanding a meeting and writing angry letters to Ofsted.
There are 20,000ish primary schools in the UK. For most of them, 'on the one hand, and on the other' isn't a smokescreen to conceal their indoctrination programme: it's a comfotably vague fudge to get them through the day.
“Most” is doing a lot of work here.
If the govt and school has guidelines (they all do) and enough people to carry them out that is as good as all teachers having the same opinion. Maybe most would like to avoid it but they will keep quiet if it means they will lose their jobs, won’t they?
If the teacher teaches there are only two sexes when Ofsted are in they will be in serious trouble. The fish rots from the head, that's true. But there are an awful lot of people who agree with the Cultural Marxism and the rest will keep quiet for "a quiet life"
"Many" doing plenty of work there too!
Did these teachers succeed in turning your children against you? I suspect they didnt, but if they did then I respectfully and genuinely apologise for my presumption.
I take your point about keeping quiet ('all that is necessary for evil to triumph' and so on), but I'll maintain my assertion that in a school community of any size, the keenest activists on any side will usually be the parents.
So what? The rules come from the TOP DOWN, not from the bottom up. The idea that a parent of any persuasion can change the system isn’t true.
PS Ireland’s sentence for rape of a vulnerable child is, very late in the day, a judicial step in the right direction. However, would he have received a similar stretch if his target for self indulgent sexualised abuse of power had been a 12 year old girl ? With gender violence and rape prosecutions and convictions at a disgustingly low level across both the UK and Ireland, just what is this lived daily harsh reality for so many, so widely reported in the msm with ghoulish glee, teaching our children about how we, as a society, think and behave about sex ?
I will simply add one word - Epstein.
Thanks for this report on the report. Teaching about our sexuality needs to be placed into a far wider framework than just the educational one. Until such time as we recognise that we all learn in our earliest years by mimicking what we see around us; our parents, siblings, neighbours and the emotional equivalent of heroin -visual and social media. Children are like sponges and notice and hear - everything. Sexualised clothing in Sainsbury’s TU fashion section can arguably be seen as just as harmful as viewing softporn. I am very aware of the social harm that is inflicted upon young minds being of a generation and from a background that normalised Lolita, unerage sex (see The Tavistock Institute research from the 1970s) and took me along to PIE charity fundraisers as a teen. How we, as ibdividuals, as families, communities and politically controlled societies choose to enact and honestly present our daily lived sexual selves to our children must be at the centre of this social discussion and inform all else.