Teachers Say They Won’t Tell Parents if Child Says They Are Trans
Ahead of U.K. Government guidance recommending that teachers inform parents if a child expresses a desire to change gender, some teachers have declared their intention to defy the directive – even if it means risking dismissal. The Mail has the story.
Their defiance came in response to a query on an internet teaching forum asking what they thought about “the Government proposing guidance for schools to potentially outing trans kids/kids questioning their identity/gender norms, to their parents”.
One wrote: “I’m a gay teacher and I’d refuse to do this if a child came to me in confidence.” …
It has also emerged that several branches of Britain’s biggest teaching union, the National Education Union, had published an open letter urging the Government not to make teachers keep parents informed if a child said they wanted to change gender. …
The letter said it was “not always appropriate – or even necessarily safe – to alert parents and carers to a child’s gender identity (or their sexuality)” and that schools should have to “make robust risk assessments before any such disclosure”. It also cites advice from the LGBT charity Stonewall that schools should not disclose information that could reveal a child’s “trans status” to others, including parents and carers, unless there is a safeguarding risk or the young person gives permission.
However, last year, Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman said it was a “safeguarding risk” for schools to not tell parents their child was questioning their gender identity.
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My friends son is an English teacher and he said “I hate it”———I said “what’s the problem”?. He replied “We cannot even tell noisy disruptive pupils to shut up”———-I feel truly sorry for him and the teaching profession, but they have a union, and it is time they told politicians they won’t be in on Monday unless they bring back discipline and punishment which today are dirty words to silly Liberals
I can remember when the teaching unions vigorously campaigned against corporal punishment – and they won! I can remember thinking at the time that kids would very quickly realise that there would be no effective sanctions / punishments to deter bad behaviour. Teachers are now facing the consequences of those decisions.
I’m not necessarily advocating corporal punishment. But kids aren’t stupid. They know that they can now do what they want with no consequence to themselves. The threat of exclusion from school to a delinquent is laughable.
I’m not too sure that today’s “society” is robust enough to make the difficult decisions required to restore discipline in schools.
Then they’ll be enough uneducated British kids that will be available en mass for the low pay mundane jobs! Maybe, that’s the idea?
I’m of the age where it was still considered okay for teachers to smack kids at school, within reason. Of the few times it happened to me, most of the time I deserved it; it was mostly the humiliation that stung. The one time I didn’t, the guy was an absolute sadist and enjoyed terrifying me beforehand. So on balance, I’m glad it’s gone.
You may be glad it is gone but nothing has replaced it. ——-All of society now pay for this. Pupils run amok and society is degenerating as a result.
Sorry of topic but topical!
Ireland is fighting back!
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/fire-breaks-out-at-hotel-in-galway-due-to-house-aslyum-seekers-1565685.html
Good luck to them I say! Enough is enough!
So those hotel owners had probably already sacked their staff and were expecting to pocket easy government money. Now they will not. This is great news. I hope that the arson element makes it difficult for them to claim on their insurance policy as well.
I understood the hotel had been out of use for some years – so probably no staff to sack. I doubt the owners would have minded either the rental fees from the government or a compulsory purchase. Now they’ll get compo.
I’ve little doubt is was arson but I can think of many groups that might see a benefit in some way:
and probably many others.
I should have read the whole story. Still good to see people standing up and trying to stop the influx.
If pupils even think of trusting (gay) teachers with intimate secrets about themselves, something seriously queer is going on in schools nowadays. During my time at these institutions – arguably a while back – the absolutely last kind of person I would have trusted with anything had been a teacher. I used to consider myself lucky when I managed to escape unjust punishments (according to my then-understanding of this) most of the time.
A secret shared… is not a secret.
I find all this trans stuff baffling, but as some sane and down to earth parents we know have just taken a very hard decision on home education rather their kids getting the latest in sex maleducation it must be getting serious. A pity more parents don’t take an interest and action in this.