Government guidance clearly confirms that parents who use even the mildest physical discipline “could be charged with common assault” and “may get a criminal record” Guidance tells those who work with children to “contact your local social services” or “call the police” if they see a parent smack their child The Welsh Government is accused…
Archbishop of Southwark John Wilson has fired governors at a Catholic school after they defied a diocesan directive telling the school to cancel a book-signing event by a writer of LGBTQ+ teen fiction. Governors at St. John Fisher School in Purley, Croydon, voted to go ahead with the invitation extended to gay author Simon James Green — despite…
Pogrom – a mob attack, approved or condoned by authorities, against the persons and property of a religious, racial or national minority (https://www.britannica.com/topic/pogrom). In an extremely welcome and, some might think, long overdue move recognising the reality of Stonewall’s underhand campaign to impose LGBT ideology on the rest of society, the Government has at long…
A new bill in Florida aims to ban inappropriate discussion of LGBTQ issues in Primary schools (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60326418). The Republican-led legislature says it is protecting parents’ rights, with Governor Ron DeSantis saying that schools should avoid entirely ‘inappropriate’ topics, including sexual orientation and gender identity. Predictably, LGBT advocates claim that this will threaten the mental health of LGBT children…
Part 1 In late June 2021, my wife and I were banned by the Chair of Governors from entering the premises of our daughter’s primary school. The ban followed an investigation by myself into what appeared to be some fairly under-hand methods used by the school to get the RSHE curriculum passed by the Board…
If you stopped someone in the street today and asked them, “What’s the first goal of education”, what do you think they would say? It will be a surprise to many to learn the ‘official’ answer, according to the English National Curriculum and the Education Act 2002, is the ‘spiritual…development of pupils…and of society’. Yes,…
School’s Guide to Respecting Religious Beliefs in Relationships and Sex Education The following is taken from a resource reproduced with permission from Christian Concern, which will prove useful to both schools and parents alike in clarifying the rights parents have with regards to the RSHE taught at their children’s school. This guide may also be…
By Will Jones The Government on Wednesday published the evidence informing its recent controversial decision to recommend all secondary school pupils wear face masks in classrooms. The new document from the Department for Education (DfE) explains that the decision “has been taken on the recommendation of UKHSA and is based on a range of…
Parents must keep on fighting on the solid rock of faith In my previous two articles which have appeared in Calx Mariae (in no 4 and no 10), I detailed the way in which Church leaders in England and Wales had in recent years consistently betrayed Catholic parents and their children and, indeed, all the…
Teaching materials for Years 1 – 8 Concern about Relationships and Sex Education could have brought you to this website, so to read that the subject can actually benefit you as a parent or teacher may come as a surprise. That, however, is what we believe at Alive to the World. Core principles of Alive…
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