Details of Sex Education Lessons Must Be Published by Schools, Tory MPs Demand
Rishi Sunak is under pressure from almost 70 Conservative MPs to give schools a legal duty to publish materials used in sex education lessons, following a ruling by a judge that they did not have to for commercial reasons. The judge made that ruling despite Gillian Keegan, the Education Secretary, writing to all schools to say that “parents should be able to view all curriculum materials”, including “where an external agency advises schools that their materials cannot be shared due to restrictions in commercial law”. The Telegraph has the story.
The MPs are backing a “sex education transparency” Private Members’ Bill introduced by Miriam Cates, the MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, that would force schools to share with parents copies of materials used in lessons.
The legislation would also ban schools in England from using externally produced teaching resources for relationships and sex education lessons that have not been published.
The Prime Minister addressed the issue at the Conservative conference when he said “it shouldn’t be controversial for parents to know what their children are being taught in school about relationships”. But he has not said how he will make schools share materials with parents.
Mrs Cates introduced the Bill after Clare Page, a parental campaigner, lost a legal battle to see the sex education plan at her daughter’s school. She has been fighting to obtain a copy of the materials since her 15-year-old daughter came home from school two years ago and said she had been taught that “heteronormativity” was “bad” and that she should be “sex positive” towards relationships.
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It should be a safeguarding issue where no externally produced teaching for sex and relationship information should be used. Otherwise it is an open goal for the minor attracted to gain access to vulnerable children.
It should be a cross party issue with new legislation to protect children.
Legislation should not be required. If the people setting the national curriculum are unable to identify harmful content they should be sacked. The judge guilty of making the ruling that parents were not allowed to see curriculum content for “commercial reasons” also needs to be sacked and then sent away for a period of re-education. Parents have a basic right to know every aspect of that which is inflicted on their children in the name of ‘education.’
Especially as this is obviously just a trick to keep this secret. The certainly very benevolent entities behind this really don’t want parents to know what their children are being taught in this respect. But they certainly don’t have anything nefarious to hide. No, no, no, this cannot be.
I trust that at least these same MP’s will also ensure that the garbage being pushed by the ace grifter Dale Vince around “climate science” will be subject to similar scrutiny and then thrown out for the propoganda that it is.
The indoctrination of children set in motion by the United Kingdom’s greatest traitor MUST be stopped for all our sakes.
Wtf*ckery at it’s most insane… So, let me get this right: children are being taught about sex and relationships in schools but the children’s parents are not able to find out what the material is because of ‘commercial reasons’!! Sex. Children. Commercial interests/money. I would sue the local authority although that’s probably a hiding to nothing. It’s absolutely bloody disgraceful.
I was at boarding school….My ED was listening to all the lurid stories by fellow lads.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/will-the-state-manipulators-stop-at-a-smoking-ban/
The wider implications of the smoking ban which of course has F A to do with health.
“The government seems to be very good at avoiding its own advice on these matters, as evidenced by the clear disdain for health and wellbeing in the middle of a pandemic, so can we truly trust that the kinds of policies it is promoting are in our best interests?”
They will obviously not stop at that. As we were all forced to learn from 2020 – 2021, these people want to rationalize other people’s behaviour down to the level of who’s allowed to meet whom under which circumstances and which people may be allowed to talk to which other people and when this must be prohibited instead. They obviously also want to regulate what people are allowed to talk about when they’re allowed to talk about something.
That said, the article is rather poor and basically making the tired (and wrong) But that’s sooo expensive to the NHS! It must be prohibited! argument which can really be used to prohibit everything humans do. I didn’t ask for the NHS to be created. I certainly don’t exist to serve it.
Then there is this:‘Completely false claims’: Montana watchdog warns against ‘extremist’ educational content (msn.com)
Rishi Sunak is under pressure from only 70 Conservative MPs.
Has anyone noticed how sex education in schools has tracked a fall in the age in which people have sex for the first time?
Whatever the stated aims of sex education may be, that’s the actual effect.
A much better idea would be to abolish these lessons altogether. The state, and this includes the attached stakeholder-semistate¹, has absolutely no business telling people how their sexual and associated social activities have to look like. Things can hardly get more private than that and that all kinds of busybodies really believe they ought to be allowed to mess with other people’s entirely private lifes doesn’t mean they should have this right.
¹ This really comes from the UN. Imagine this: The United Nations teaching 11-year-olds how to masturbate properly (with heavy focus on same-sex relationships, obviously). Absurdity in extremis.
Any action now is way too late….
These poor youngsters – their lives are already being wrecked.
I work in a school and I think parents need to see in detail RHSE and for that matter all modules because there is in my view ideological aspects in pockets throughout.
I don’t think parents know at all.
It is not parents ( tax payers) concern about the commercial aspect of these
modules but the parents right to know.
I think the commercial excuse begs the question. What are they hiding.
Teaching there are many genders ? I have been in such a lesson.
I think this is probably not so much about hiding anything (although they probably have plenty of stuff to hide from, say, religious muslim parents) as about ensuring that pupils are disassociated from their parents by keeping them in a sealed universe the former cannot enter as much as possible.
I think David Icke has a point that these trans storytime shows are there to confuse kids in their gender rolls.
Gender is a propety of nouns and not of people.
Yes I have wondered that too! but also it could be that teachers/senior teams educationally have had free rein given to them for such a long time, to add bits of ideology to some curriculum ( this could be unconsciously done by some) without wider transparent accountability and because it is the predominant culture in staff; they may have become unaware or more brazen or naive to the system they operate in.
It is as if they feel untouchable or convinced that theirs is the correct cultural narrative for example relaxed when mentioning to students that today is stonewalls birthday, or comment about J K Rowling? Which suggests to the young, oh they must be good or bad or important, no critical thinking needed?
It is so perplexing and sad to see such good people accepting many genders, preferred pronouns, hate crime as a thing and net zero and more.
At times it feels like a protected left wing environment and other times not so much.
So it is so important that all teaching modules details, resources and formal teaching plans are available to parents if they do wish to read them.
I would advise they did.
The purpose of school is to teach pupils useful skills and knowledge they’ll later need as full members of society and not to familiarize them with the secret lore of the initiated while isolating them from their otherwise everyday surroundings. That’s how sects operate. It follows that secret teaching materials must not exist. This comes on top of the already repellent Math is boring, let’s talk about SEX¹ instead! wider topic adults shouldn’t ever be allowed to inflict on pubescent minors. That’s a subconscious manipulation tactic Pawlow would have been proud of who had to work with relatively lesser instinctive drives during his experiments.
¹ Should really be blinking in rainbow colours.
Yes there is definitely an element of all you say and always has and will be.
Therefore I think what ‘Scunnered’ replies, says below, describes a way not to be scuppered parents( smiles me) or boiling frogs as said, because parents need to look and read as I encourage .
Then, that can promote a healthier partnership with school that staff begin to understand there is a process of transparency to adhere to. this I hope for.
Then hot housing either by design or unconsciously,is less easy to achieve.
Thx for replies as I don’t get the opportunity at all ! With those who have DS awareness and this place is free speech zone fingers and toes crossed.
I reviewed all of the RSHP (Scotland) materials as part of the consultation and so knew exactly what has coming. How did I know this was coming? My peaktrans moment was when they converted the primary school toilets to unisex over the summer without parental consultation and then doubled-down when challenged (by a depressingly small number of the parent body despite, when polled, opposing the change in large numbers). Join the dots and the rest is history. My eldest is now in secondary school. As each class topic is announced (which to be fair the school has told us in advance), I ask for a copy of the materials (which to be fair the teacher has shared) and we sit down with both kids to talk it through/ridicule/debunk/ critique/question. We get ahead of all the propaganda and challenge it head on with our kids – trans, climate, covid, etc. The problem is most parents are boiling frogs with their heads lodged well and truly up the proverbial.
Your parental practise is rare as you say but needs to be Best Practice!! It helps reduce the temptation of those staff few or more, who cannot resist their own bias what ever it is. Human nature.
Thank goodness for your family x
It is worth all parents doing this!!
It is checks and balances because educational institutions are the first portal of propaganda that can be harmful.
Have we not seen this in history. Not a question.
In what sane world can any part of the “National Curriculum” not be proactively displayed, never mind immediately available when requested by anyone, let alone by the parents!
Clown world. Evil clown world. So glad we took our two children out of the mainstream “education” system.
If you don’t want your children indoctrinated by perverted sex education; climate propaganda and left-wing “values” then the only solution is to home school them.
Unfortunately, few families can afford to do that and only a limited number will have the intellectual ability beyond primary level. However, it is the first few years of a child’s life which are most important – the old Jesuit saying “give me the child to the age of 7 and I will give you the man.” These days, probably the first 5 years will be sufficient IF you put the time and effort in.
If you accept a lower standard of living for the first few years of your child’s life, keep them out of Institutional Childcare, let them explore the world naturally and teach them the basics which lead towards independence (the alphabet/reading; numbers/simple sums; letters/ writing; food/cooking; dressing themselves/shoelaces etc and crucially, learning to make their own choices/decisions) they will have some resistance to the indoctrination.
I don’t think you need to remove them; I find challenging it at home is adequate. My eldest has a fair few sceptical friends and she’s only 13. They don’t agree on everything but they all challenge the received wisdom in some shape or form. She’s told us a couple of narratives that would suggest that self-censorship is starting to wobble a bit too.
What I find concerning is, according to Miriam Cates in the Telegraph this morning, 71% of people polled about this agree parents should have access to the materials being taught. What on earth is the rationale of the remaining 29% for NOT wanting this information made available?
Sadly I think there are more stupid people around us than we’d care to countenance.