Nurseries, primary schools and secondary schools are signing up to a scheme telling them to stop calling students ‘girls’ and ‘boys’. The scheme is run by (you guessed it) Stonewall which has said it will give awards to schools that remove “any unnecessary gendered language from the classrooms”. Over 300 schools have signed up to this scheme. The charity advises teachers to refer to all children as “they” or “young people” and wants boys and girls to wear the same uniform.
This takes place against a background of falling educational standards in literacy and numeracy. For example, every year it is estimated that 200,000 children leave primary school unable to read or write to the required level; 413,000 children do not own a single book and one in five children struggle to read and write at all. And, just to pour salt into the wound, school closures as a result of COVID-19 have made these statistics even worse, with the reading skills of many disadvantaged children regressing during the pandemic. The percentage reaching the expected standard in reading fell from 75% to 67% between 2019 and 2022, then fell again from 69% to 58% in 2023.
There are different ‘badges’ attached to Stonewall’s scheme, depending on how compliant the school is: Bronze, Silver and Gold. For schools to be eligible for the Gold badge they must have been part of the scheme for at least two years and provide evidence of their commitment to inclusion in lessons, as well as have inclusive policies. Some examples of what schools can do helpfully suggested by Stonewall are: a PE teacher could address his or her class by saying “boys, girls and non-binary students, pick your team now” or use non-gendered language such as “students, pick your team now”; make sure members of staff are not using phrases such as “man up” or “don’t be such a girl”; and, of course, schools should install gender neutral toilets.
Any educational institution catering to pupils aged two to 18 can join Stonewall’s scheme, with membership costing £99 per year. So, if the above 300 schools have signed up and it takes two years to get the ‘gold status’, Stonewall will earn £59,400. But if more schools sign up this could become a real cash cow for Stonewall.
The Department for Education (DfE) has already shunned this charity saying:
We withdrew from Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme in 2022 and have not funded any programmes related to diversity and inclusion schemes since to ensure value for money to the taxpayer.
Furthermore, the U.K. Government said last year that teachers and students who “misgender” a trans pupil should not face any sanction and “it is lawful for schools to deadname, ban from some sports, reject from enrolment based on their trans status and refuse any and all other forms of gender affirmation to trans kids, and that to recognise their identities as trans could qualify as indoctrinating children”. In this statement at least, the Government has hit the nail on the head.
Despite DfE disapproval, Stonewall continues to be involved in schools and push its woke ideology on children. This scheme will be worth keeping an eye on to see if it spreads to other schools. With any luck it won’t and schools will focus on the quality of education they are providing rather than obsess over ‘social justice’.
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We will see if that headline is right. Meanwhile, never heard of Nigel Farage?
Bad Enoch is not the future.
Totally agree. She is a WEF acolyte. Same old.
From Churchill to the Chump….the UK’s decline in one anaolgy.
I wonder what Winnie would make of her?
She was 100% full-on fascist for the Rona totalitarian project. All I need to know.
Try to make your point based on the politics, without resorting to silly comments about her appearance or ancestry. Remember Margaret Thatcher’s words:
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”
Try to refrain from stifling FREEDOM OF SPEECH & THOUGHT.
Remember that Margaret Thatcher was an INDIGENOUS ENGLISHWOMAN whose ancestors have lived in these islands for more than a thousand years. And as a PROTESTANT, she was legally entitled to hold the post of UK Prime Minister, which the awkward, ungainly, graceless, ugly, dishonest Nigerian Catholic gap-toothed woman who dangles her arms like a wrestler is NOT.
Remember also that nobody in Nigeria would ever accept a BLOND SWEDISH WOMAN to represent the Nigerian People as their National Leader.
Remember also that nobody in Israel would ever accept a Nigerian Catholic Woman as their National Leader, and neither would anybody in China, India, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia.
Now clear off, you Pompous Git.
Sometimes politicians just manage to say the words they think we want to hear but that is usually as far as it goes.
I cannot share Dr McGrogan’s optimism.
Sometimes politicians in the cabinet are required to publicly “toe the line” under the pressure of “collective cabinet responsibility”, even if they privately disagree. Sometime backbench MPs are required to publicly “toe the line” of their party whips, even if they privately disagree. At times of cabinet or shadow cabinet reshuffles, everybody can re-organise their strategy. I cut her some slack despite some past utterances which are now embarrassing.
That argument washes up to a point. Supporting “covid” folly and evil goes well beyond what I deem acceptable. Utterances and actions were more than embarrassing. She voted to force people to get injected with experimental, poorly tested and unnecessary drugs, and told pregnant women to get vaxxed. There’s no coming back from that, for me.
Plus supporting all the Woke stuff she now proclaims to be against, but maybe I’m too harsh and she changed her mind. But, as you say, the vaccine fascism is on another level.
Some of her other political positions seem OK and may be genuine, but I don’t think she’s fit for high office for the reasons you so succinctly state.
The Covid vaccine is safe for pregnant women and their babies
Kemi Badenoch
The Covid vaccine is safe for pregnant women and their babies
Social media giants have failed to stop the spread of fake news and scare stories that put people at risk
That was in the past, nobody’s infallible (apart from a few people who post here on the Daily Sceptic, apparently), she’s now a fan of Ron DeSantis.
Reply removed, or I didn’t press “post”….
I will try again
I don’t care who she is a fan of
We are not infallible here but we didn’t push poorly tested medical products onto people that they didn’t need, using state propaganda and billions of taxpayer pounds
In the past – a past she has not repudiated
She should have known that the jab had never been properly tested for pregnant women. That women are ALWAYS advised not to take drugs during pregnancy. And, certainly when you’re not a medical specialist, it’s best not to promote an experimental product with NO medium to long-term safety data.
Ignorance is no excuse.
And that also goes for that blonde woman on Five Live who was pushing them, forgot het name.
Oh really!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUj8UUyV6I0&t=344s
I read below that she endorsed the witches brew for pregnant mothers. There can only be a few reasons why she would’ve said this and none of them are pleasant given her position. I don’t know anything about her so perhaps she was qualified to say this but it would always be grossly irresponsible for a politician to say this. At best you could say ‘according to clinical trials there is no risk to pregnant women’ but of course we know that no such data exists and plenty of data to suggest the contrary exists. This leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. Her words might’ve resulted in death or injury and she would at least have known this given that she would be aware of the extent of her ignorance.
Might have? There is significant evidence of increased miscarriages amongst women who had recently been jabbed.
Well see it’s easy for opposition parties to pretend to us that they will be true and speak the truth. Let’s see how she reacts to leftist media attacks. If she is made of stern stuff then she will simply crush them with more truth.
Will she say thatnislam is an existential threat tonour people? Will she says she will stop immigration? Will she say that women do not have Denise’s? Will she crush transgender bullshine?
Will she continue to promote Nigerian issues?
If I give a medicine to a family member and they ask me if it is safe I always say I don’t know. This is crazy recommending the most destructive technology in the history of humanity to pregnant women.
Kemi Badenoch has been on board with the entire globalist agenda all the time she was in the government. She’s a protégé of Michael Gove. As business secretary she agreed to closing Britain’s coal fired blast furnaces which made virgin steel. We can now only make poor quality steel from scrap metal using electric furnaces. She thought this was all a good thing as it was part of the Net Zero agenda.
The Conservative government she was part of was trying to pay farmers to rewild all or part of their land as part of the Net Zero plan to end farming. The Labour government is just speeding up the process the Conservatives continued from the Blair Brown era.
Once fields have gone through Rewilding, they are useless for food for a very long time.
I like her rhetoric, however after the evidence of years of Conservative government, I am
not positive she will deliver. The appointments of some of the usual suspects in her shadow cabinet is of concern.
Furthermore, she may be able to split the ‘freedom’ vote again and we may be landed with a second Labour term as a consequence, unless there is some change in the electoral system.
I really would like to share your optimism.
I would like to go back to the freedom to make my own decisions and the ability to try and plan my future.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/11/05/kemi-badenoch-is-that-rare-thing-a-politician-willing-to-speak-the-truth-whatever-the-cost/#comment-990721
If you half close your eyes, you’ll see the strings.
So she says “The time has come to tell the truth. “
So I look forward to her telling the King, the WEF, the BBC, the rest of the Establishment, the EU, her fellow MPs, the members of the House of Frauds …. and most importantly, the British people …..that Net Zero is a massive scam. That it has nothing whatsoever to do with the climate and everything to do with transfer of wealth.
That they are expected to have a lower standard of living …. become colder, poorer and have restricted lives ….. so that the Globalists can enrich themselves.
As the UN has admitted.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2017/05/24/global-warming-is-not-about-the-science-un-admits-climate-change-policy-is-about-how-we-redistribute-the-worlds-wealth/
Dr. McGrogan is that rare thing: a lawyer kneeling before a liar.
So the Ethnic African Nigerian woman who constantly plays the race card about being oppressed by white men, chose to marry a white man, was elevated to high office by white men, and now pretends to be a spokeswoman for white people in a country and culture totally alien to her own ancestral homeland.
Now, when is Netanyahu going to step aside to let an Ethnic African Catholic woman be the Leader of Israel? How would that go down with the Israelis, do you think?
At least they stand up for their own people and their own culture, and are not so feeble as to lie down like doormats before Third World Invaders.
I can’t believe that Dr David McGrogan is being so utterly naive to believe one word this lady says.
Only one question from me, does she have any ties with the WEF…..?
Not sure about that but she has lots of family back home in Nigeria that have some money that they would like to send to your bank account….
I’ll vote for her then…!