Elective Home Education (EHE) is a well worn path for thousands of parents in the UK, who choose to exercise their duty and responsibility for their child’s education themselves. Some opt out of school settings for part of their child’s education, some for all of it. These choices are protected in law, with parents having…
The Department for Education this week made good on its promise to consult with parents, children, young people and teachers on the revisions being made to sex education provision in our schools. The argument for updating the curriculum is a strong one – nothing has changed in the last 20 years, unless schools have themselves…
Three recent cases illustrate what could be called a curious revisiting of some of the less encouraging moments in British History. After the crises of conflicting beliefs in the 16th century, whoever was in power would often impose penalties on those who would not or did not conform to the official viewpoint on religion. Believers…
Parents in the UK have a right, enshrined in English law and in European Human Rights law, to educate their children according to their philosophical or religious views. That includes the right to home educate. In 2007, the government clearly stated that it was the job of parents, not the state, to raise children. And…
In 2005, the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) was hailed as world leading: it did not require people who wanted to change gender to undergo a surgical procedure. Wind the clock forward 12 years. The same GRA is now seen as outdated, humiliating, demeaning, bureaucratic and in need of significant revision. Why? Under the current law,…
The Teachers’ Voice on Bullying in Schools A strategically generated hysteria claiming epidemic levels of ‘homophobic bullying’ in our schools has served as one of the main justifications for the enforcement of LGBT ideology at every level of the education system — including in our children’s classrooms. Headline findings from ‘surveys’ commissioned by special interest…
Well, it is getting complicated isn’t it? The tide has flowed in a certain way for some years now. It is standard to condemn as bigoted anyone who doesn’t share various presumptions about same-sex orientation or, more accurately, practice. We have just had a university student, Felix Ngole, lose his appeal against being expelled from…
The C of E has issued revised guidance to its Primary schools aimed at stopping transphobic bullying.The description is disingenuous. According to the NSPCC, almost all children experience bullying at some point. The main causes are identified as: religion; special educational needs; disability; being in care; low socio-economic status; young people whose mothers had higher…
Recent guidance in Scotland over “transgender“ pupils has caused a furore – and quite rightly. The new Scottish School Guidance, as reported in the Sunday Times, has been “produced by LGBT Youth Scotland and endorsed by the Holyrood government and 16 local authorities.” It quotes from a “study of more than 300 LGBT young people”…
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