Teacher Found Guilty of Gross Misconduct and Branded a “Safeguarding Risk” for Sharing Christian Beliefs on Gender and Marriage in Church of England School
The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) has ruled that a teacher was guilty of “unacceptable professional conduct” for expressing and debating the Church of England’s (CofE) own position on gender and marriage in a CofE school.
Bishop Justus CofE School in Bromley, Kent had incorporated into its Religious Education (RE) teaching for 11 and 12 year-olds materials introducing children to gender identities such as pansexual, asexual, intersex and transgender, plus Stonewall inspired films and political slogans such as “Equality is a strength, Diversity is our power, Inclusion is a necessity”. The lessons included themes that suggest children can be born in the wrong body.
However, Glawdys Leger, 43, a specialist Modern Foreign Languages teacher, refused to teach the lessons as she deemed them to be promoting extreme LGBT ideology that was harmful to children while parents were being kept in the dark. Dismayed that the CofE’s own position on some of the issues was absent from the school’s curriculum, during a discussion on LGBT issues in February 2022 she told a class that she did not believe in transgender ideology, that Christians believe sex outside of marriage is sin and that as a Christian you need to “live your life for God”. She added that “there is no place to hurt or exclude anyone because they are LGBT” and all are “loved by God” and are “precious”, according to the Christian Legal Centre, which is supporting her.
One pupil’s mother complained that her child had been “upset” by the lesson, which led to Ms. Leger being sacked for “gross misconduct”, being deemed a “safeguarding risk” to the “emotional well-being of children”.
Not satisfied with just the sacking, the Aquinas Church of England Education Trust then reported Ms. Leger to the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) because “she upset one pupil by sharing her views on LBGTQ+ and she went on to share many more in our investigation and subsequent hearings, such that we were not certain whether she would continue to share those views with young people”.
Although the mother of the child said she had never intended for the complaint to “get this far” and that all she had wanted was for Ms. Leger to have “training”, the TRA panel concluded that Ms. Leger was guilty of “unacceptable professional conduct” and labelled the expression of her beliefs as “inappropriate” – though stopped short of banning her from the profession.
The panel said Ms. Leger “presented as genuine and sincere in her personally held views”, was “tolerant of people from all backgrounds” and found Ms. Leger had “no intention of causing distress or harm to pupils”.
However, in its decision it said it “considered that public confidence in the profession could be seriously weakened if conduct such as that found against Ms. Leger were not treated with the utmost seriousness when regulating the conduct of the profession”.
It also found that Ms. Leger’s beliefs, and the expression of them in a Church of England school, were not aligned with “school policy”.
Despite Ms. Leger expressing her beliefs to pupils because they were only being taught the LGBT narrative at the school, the TRA said that her “choice not to present a balanced view undermined the school community’s aspiration to provide a supportive environment for children who may be exploring sexual identity”.
The panel therefore ruled that it was “satisfied that you are guilty of unacceptable professional conduct”, though added that “the Secretary of State for Education has considered the panel’s recommendation and has decided that it is not appropriate to impose a prohibition order”, which would ban Ms. Leger from the profession entirely.
The panel said that “the details of this decision will be added to your teacher record, which employers can use to check information”.
Giving evidence, Ms. Leger said:
I am certain that I have not shown, and never would show, any hatred or lack of love towards LGBT people.
True compassion and love is to be able to speak the truth to people irrespective of their sexuality. I would never discriminate against anyone, but the school was compelling teachers to promote, teach and celebrate these issues, which I could not do.
She added that: “It is not ‘inclusive’ if pupils at a Christian school are barred from understanding what Christian belief is and means on these very serious issues.”
Andrea Williams, Chief Executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said the ruling showed that “classrooms are no longer safe for Christians”.
Regulatory bodies are creating an oppressive environment for teachers which chills the atmosphere and prevents the expression of Christian faith in schools and any alternative or balancing viewpoint to LGBT ideology.
Glawdys is a Christian teacher who was teaching Christian ethics in an RE lesson in a Christian school. For her to be punished for doing her job well creates censorship in the classroom.Ms. Leger cared deeply about the children in her care and wanted to teach them about the tolerance and hope that is found in the Christian faith. For that she has been punished and even risked loss of her licence to teach.
We are ready to continue to support Glawdys and to appeal any of the findings made against her by the TRA.
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She must have felt out of place as a Christian in a CofE school.
I don’t even need to meet the poor lady who was fired, it’s obvious she is the best of us. Equally obvious too is those who prosecuted her are human excrement.
Yup
Well Welby is the anti Christ.
Not the only case where a putatively Christian school has not only sacked such a teacher, but shopped them to every authority they could in pure vindictiveness.
For some reason I’m reminded (this being Christmastide) of Joseph, because he was a just man, being minded to “put Mary away privily” until he became better informed of the situation. If he had modelled himself on these schools, not only would he have divorced her very publicly, but agitated to have her stoned.
ToF’s point is therefore extremely valid.
Andrea Williams, Chief Executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said the ruling showed that “classrooms are no longer safe for Christians”.
Thus falling straight into their tribalist identarian trap. The classrooms are no longer safe for ANYONE with wit, charm, character, intelligence, decency, integrity, honesty, common sense, humanity and a set of intact moral values. Least of all children.
Wholly in agreement.
Absolutely 👍🏻
Pure evil.
Where’s Welby?
We must fight them every inch of the way.
It’s war.
Welby is busy worshipping Satan.
As I said earlier he’s the anti Christ ergo the problem.
And such is the decline and fall of Christianity in the West: not by other faiths or belief systems, but by self-immolation on the altar of Woke.
“self-immolation on the altar of Woke.”
A wonderfully eloquent and succinct phrase summing up the state of Britain today.
Don’t disagree with Liberal Progressives. They don’t like it. They want to delegitimise your opinion and even criminalise it. You are suffering from one of their multitude of “phobias’ should you have your own world view on race gender equality diversity and climate. ———————–SSSHHHHHHHHH. Try to whisper your opinion, because if anyone hears you, you might be accused of a silly “hate crime” even in your own living room.
The ppl who made this judgement deserve to be stoned to death frankly. I’m sure when they got home after sacking this poor lady they felt absolutely terrific about themselves.
a tad harsh wokeman …..but I find myself agreeing with your views as expressed
Picture the stupid mother who made the complaint then the nincompoop head who acted on it.
Public confidence in the profession has been seriously seriously weakened by teachers using materials introducing children to gender identities such as pansexual, asexual, intersex and transgender, plus Stonewall inspired films and political slogans such as “Equality is a strength, Diversity is our power, Inclusion is a necessity”.
What kind of a mother sends her child to a CofE school then complains her child is “upset” by a teacher teaching Christian values and wanting the teacher to be “trained” ???
I write as one who considers himself as a truth seeker, but not particularly Christian.
The mother who get upset, presumably very much so, when her child told her a teacher had claimed sex without marriage was sinful.
Rather wrecks the Christmas message about so-called virgins having babies! Mary was lucky not to be stoned to death. I don’t know how I got pregnant, I’m a virgin. Yeh, right, I believe you – not!
Home education and networking with others doing so is the best way forward I think. Not just to remove children from the trans agenda but a lot of other drawbacks of schools
the school community’s aspiration to provide a supportive environment for children who may be exploring sexual identity
What’s on God’s f***in earth has a school run by the church of England to do with the conjecture that children […] may be exploring a sexual identity? The paedophilia is still strong in this one? I’m single by design and thus, have no children. However, if I had any, they decidedly wouldn’t be a safe space for Church employees wondering about their sexual identity.
In order to support a deeply anti-human agenda – wokery – a decent woman’s life has to be ruined and school children lose a teacher who had their best interests at heart.
Could the school head idiot explain the positives in this business particularly with respect to the children before she gets the short drop?
The school’s website has a slideshow of pictures of kids engaged in school life over which the words ‘Success through faith, love and learning’ are shown. That rings a bit hollow.
You’re obviously insufficiently modernized. They don’t mean affection when they write love, rather joyful exploration of sexual identities.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201606/these-are-the-7-types-love
One would hope they mean agape rather than ludus.
I think what they mean is more akin to the proverbial social life of bonobos and not to anything described by a Greek word.
It is ultimately for the parents of the children going to this school to realise what is going on. They are the stakeholders, and for the sake of the children they need to wake up, protest and not rest until they have driven the headmaster out of office.
It’s time to evict the Pharisees from the Temple.
Out of curiosity, do they still hold sermons based on biblical verses in buildings of the Church of England or has this meanwhile been replaced by reciting 342 gender identities in reverse alphabetical order and “Amen to that!”?
So I’m guessing the Islamic Faith Schools must also teach LGBTQ+++ ideology?
Yet another government “Agency” acting as a kangaroo court and applying a punishment without reference to a real court. Presumably it will be up to Ms Leger to challenge the decision in a real court in order to get this ruling changed.
The real culprits here are our useless politicians, who have passed so much power to these Agencies. As a country our elected representatives are busy undermining our democratic rights and legal freedoms by giving power to Agencies (civil servants by another name) to fine people for breaching the rules the Agencies set up.
Our real courts have been reduced to appeals only, and our elected parliament has been reduced to an irrelevance.
Unbelievable! The parents of the other children in the class should object that their children are very distressed that someone has been persecuted for sharing values consistent with CofE teaching. There are plenty of non faith schools available for those who do not hold Christian values!
Years ago my sister, a non Catholic, was taught at a catholic convent school and had to repeat a daily mantra out loud along with the whole class “Self control is better than birth control”. It was something the nuns believed in absolutely. They of course were totally unaccepting of any deviation from their values, unlike this lady.
Many children are distressed by the quasi religious Net Zero teaching. They have no escape unfortunately!
Difficult to see why she was disciplined when she was effectively presenting a balancing viewpoint when handling a political issue in class – as required by the law.
Then again, I guess the fact that this was being ‘taught’ in an RE class just shows that those who follow this ideology don’t even consider it ‘political’.
If I had a child at that school, I’d be looking for an alternative.
The mother who complained should be ashamed of herself.
“However, in its decision it said it “considered that public confidence in the profession could be seriously weakened if conduct such as that found against Ms. Leger were not treated with the utmost seriousness when regulating the conduct of the profession”.”….
As far as I am concerned the church has weakened my confidence in the profession. How are these idiots allowed anywhere near children’s education?
PURE EVIL SCUM