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Tories Demand Right for Parents to Know What Children Are Taught in Schools

by Richard Eldred
26 January 2025 3:00 PM

The Conservatives are pushing for an amendment to Labour’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to grant parents a right to know exactly what their children are being taught. The Telegraph has more.

Rishi Sunak’s Government pledged last year to ban sex education for pupils under nine, a pledge that has not been matched by Sir Keir Starmer’s administration to date.

The Tory amendment would give parents or carers of children at school the right to “view all materials used in the teaching of the school curriculum”. …

The Telegraph has previously revealed that some 13-year olds have been taught there are 100 genders, while some primary school children are being taught about masturbation.

An investigation in 2023 led by Miriam Cates, a former Tory MP who previously worked as a biology teacher, found that inappropriate classroom materials were becoming widespread.

Mr. Sunak also launched a comprehensive review into what was being taught in the classroom after claims children were being taught about oral sex and how to choke their partners safely.

Neil O’Brien, a shadow education minister, said: “It shouldn’t be controversial for parents to know what their children are being taught in schools.

“And yet in some schools young children have been taught crazy and divisive gender ideology, and the Left-wing groups who come in and push this won’t even let parents see what their children are being taught. It is deeply sinister.” …

While the size of Labour’s majority means the amendment is highly likely to be voted down, it will put pressure on Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, to consider such plans.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Bridget PhillipsonConservative PartyGender IdeologySchoolchildrenSchoolsSex Education

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

Hypocrisy still a thriving industry in The People’s Republic of Krankie.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Coming soon south of the border…..

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thefoostybadger
thefoostybadger
2 years ago

Living in Sturgeon’s one party state is shit, (even though only about 30% of the electorate vote for her).

We wish we could win the lottery and move to a more normal part of the UK 🙁

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Rowan
Rowan
2 years ago
Reply to  thefoostybadger

Though not as bad as Krankieland, don’t expect too much from the rest of the UK.

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thefoostybadger
thefoostybadger
2 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Don’t care. We want out of this.

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Jonah
Jonah
2 years ago

As with all potential Government policies in a democracy, it’s right that it should be debated from different perspectives and eventually decided at the ballot box.



So she’s bleating about a possible issue with freedom of speech, and I agree that there should be no limit on this freedom, but she aims to reduce freedom of choice by use of the ballot box. The whole concept of freedom of personal autonomy seems to passed over her head. In my opinion she is a menace to society.

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Jonah
Jonah
2 years ago
Reply to  Jonah

So her freedom of speech could lead to a ballot where freedom of choice is extinguished. I agree with freedom of speech but I do not agree with her aim. Religious beliefs should not be forced on others.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Jonah

All laws are meant to reduce somebody’s freedom to do something, hence, this doesn’t make a good argument (a property it shares with bleating — a neutral verb would be more appropriate here — about costs or public health). The lady can only be a menace to society if she’s actually a witch, ie, a person capable of speaking words of power (etc) which cause undesirable effects on their own. This is a ludicrous proposition.

Further, what she proposes would need to be a menace to society and whether or not or under which specific conditions unwanted pregancies may be legally terminated certainly doesn’t qualify for that. People getting children is not a menace to society, rather the opposite. Pregnancies also don’t occur accidentally: Without casual sex, an option available to everyone, there won’t be unwanted pregnancies (corner cases intentionally ignored).

Lastly, when she’s free to make her argument, this offers an opportunity to refute it. People who believe their different opinion on the matter would be correct should certainly be able to do that without resorting to bleating about abstract concepts like choice, extremism or personal autonomy. Especially if the same people are all for their personal autonomy but not so much about the personal autonomy of others. SNP members can be regarded as principally in favour of forced injections of experimental medical products without clear benefits (if any).

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RW
RW
2 years ago

While I decidedly disagree with the notion that people’s consensual sexual habits should be regulated by the state using the pretext that they’d be public health issues — especially after two years of flagrant abuse of them same pretext by members of the other political faction — (apparently an ADF position) arguments ought to be addressed with arguments and not with guilty-by-association based prohibitions.

The Scottish parliament doesn’t exist by the grace of God and hence, its members have no authority over other people’s consciences or sins.

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David Walker
David Walker
2 years ago

“Why is the Scottish Government Trying to Silence Me?”
Because they’re a National Socialist Party, and that’s what they do.
They’re never happy unless they’re oppressing someone.

Last edited 2 years ago by David Walker
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