Parents should have a legal right to know what their children are being taught at school, senior lawyers have said.
In a new report, the Society of Conservative Lawyers has proposed legislation that would give parents online access to all teaching materials, except an individual teacher’s lesson plan for a particular class.
It said that although there is a consensus that children should be taught more about sex and relationships, as well as race and equality issues, there was less agreement on what exactly children should learn within those areas.
Many parents were worried about what their children were being taught about transgender issues, white privilege, unconscious bias and climate change, it added.
Completely mad. For of course parents should be able to know such things, the madness is that anyone requires it to be a legal right before allowing them to do so.
13 years.
I agree with this, obviously, but I would say that any parent who gives a shit knows what his or her kids are being taught because his or her kids will be telling him or her when they call/write/come home.
My wife and I brought our kids up to be sceptical bastards, and they were more irritated by their woke teachers (of which I fondly thought at the time there were a suprising number, bearing in mind they were at two of the country’s best schools) than we were.
We have raised right-wingers, but we had a lot of accidental help from the schools.
(Incidentally, more of their mates are turning out to be RW than I had thought might be the case.)
Not super surprising. While the young are supposed to be sponges for propaganda, due to the punitive nature of modern education, especially “going against the narrative”, kids quickly learn to keep their different opinions to themselves if they don’t want to be penalised by bad grades and detention for “Wrong think”.
Interested – We have raised right-wingers, but we had a lot of accidental help from the schools.
Yarp, I know a LOT of radicalised primary school kids.
Not all of them are mine.
there is a consensus that children should be taught more about sex and relationships, as well as race and equality issues
If that’s true it’s rather sad. They should be taught more maths, English and Latin.
@ The Meissen Bison – I watched a short clip (from the US) earlier, of a parent berating a school board meeting because their 8 year old kids were being subjected to THREE days per week of LGBT propaganda! She said learning the basics was far more important…
Dave, the FBI will be round shortly, to sort out that parent.
If she is lucky, they will not actually shoot her….
They need more practical classes as well. Finance and budgeting. Some living skills like cooking and cleaning. Basic car maintenance. Call it an adulting class.
In the 70s, my high school offered all of these. My childrens’ schools, not at all.
Rishi’s going full tilt for the pedo groomers, that “conversion therapy ban” nobody you know asked for is still in the post.
King Tampon is meant to include it in his “King’s Speech” (he identifies as a king, as well as a ladies’ sanitary product).
Vote Conservative so they can cut off your daughter’s breasts and put you in a cage for trying to stop them.
MG: My school as well in the ’80s. It was compulsary and called Design For Living, as it prepared you for, well, living in the real world outside school.
More and more I dispair at how much what I consider ordinary core learning has been stripped from schools at the same time as “society” complains that schools aren’t teaching these ordinary core subjects. I’ve stopped responding with “what do you mean they don’t? they did when I was at school” with depressed acceptance and relief that I don’t have children.