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.
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Sounds like a good idea in theory.
In practice rhe only way parents can know what their children are being taught in school is going to school with them.
In any case, the solution as almost always is freeing the school market. Give parents vouchers and let then chose the school for their children.
Indeed
I know I will probably irritate the redoubtable RW but I would make the national curriculum advisory or abolish it, privatise or disband Ofsted and allow anyone to set up a school with no legal constraints on what can be taught and who can be a teacher*
*I can see a problem here though because now we have a multicultural society there would be ghetto schools where people are taught to hate us
That would condemn some children to be failures in life, the ones that can’t pass GCSE and other exams, even if they emerge with enhanced life skills.
No I don’t think so. Apparently 80% of secondary schools in England are academies with some freedom in the matter of curriculum the main reason for the important rise in academic standards in recent years.
That simply needs to be extended with the use of vouchers, then the whole department of education can be shut.
All schools completely independent.
Why?
Hasn’t our Toby set up some free schools? Does that mean they don’t teach this indictrinating, toxic bilge? I actually don’t know much about free schools…
He has indeed (he is sometimes maligned but gets off his arse and does stuff instead of just moaning) and I think they are still going and I am sure they don’t teach the bilge. However the parents who (presumably) pay for those schools don’t get a discount on their tax money, and the schools still get inspected by Ofsted and have to employ “qualified” teachers – so they could get pushed to cover things in the national curriculum that they would rather not.
I think the upcoming education bill intends to remove that freedom.
Katherine Birbalsingh, who we’ve encountered here in the past and who gets excellent results from a non-selective intake, is making a lot of noise about this on various podcasts and has apparently been invited to visit Bridget Phillipson.
Whether or not they change their plans remains to be seen.
Centrally planned education is a terrible Idea.
I see climan beat me to it
How depressing.
Yes you need somebody like this lady as Education Secretary really, as she knows what’s what and her success speaks for itself. Pigs will fly first, of course.
They don’t select for competence unfortunately.
Tories Demand Right for Parents to Know What Children Are Taught in Schools
The Tory wing of the Uniparty could have enshrined this in law, while they were in power, with a Parental Right to Know Act. Then the current marxo-fascist anti-white government would have been forced to repeal it, and the Anti-white Party (aka The Labour Party) would be forced to explain why they think the government should own the nation’s children.
Yes, they are having all sorts of good ideas that they didn’t have while they were in power. I don’t believe a word of it. They will say anything to get back in to government, but if they get there it will be the same old fake Tories.
Too true.
Why would we trust a Tory Party led by Olukemi Adegoke and is full of the equivalents of RINOs?
Here is how it is done by the excellent Katharine Birbalsingh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-hHSDseWDo
But the devil is in the detail, it would be very difficult to provide parents with full transparency, even giving them textbooks and exercises would not deter devious activist teachers.
You know she has done great for her school when the New Statesman writes this:
“The school is only marginally less hated than Eton, …”
What a great badge of honour!
I heard her on planet normal last week – the basic common sense she spoke was very refreshing. Schools are meritocracy’s, aiming high raises kids standards, and their expectations. Success breeds success… all positive, ‘let’s strive to improve ourselves by working hard’ thinking vs let’s do as little as possible
Any teacher propagating marxo-fascist claptrap is either deluded or evil and contributes to the ongoing disintegration of society.
When will they realise they had 14 years to do this but failed.
I was lucky I came to this country at primary school age and even then in the early 1980s they started pushing this progressive crap. The headmaster called my mother in and asked if I had lived in countries where women were subjugated. Honestly if I had a son of school age I would have to intervene to save him. I would find other traditional parents and make a go of it. |I am glad that they never beat the traditional ways out of me now given the morbid state of British culture.
Gwendolene is rushing to try to deal with an overload of pupils for schools this month as a result of Rachel from Accounts driving private schools out of business and forcing parents to pull children out on cost grounds. Who could possibly have seen this coming? Oh, yes, most people.
Parents having the right to know what their children are being taught in school is pretty meaningless unless they also have the right to change what’s taught e.g. via the curriculum in each school being voted on by the parents of that school’s pupils similar to the US system of local/district school boards being directly elected.
I fully support parents who home school their children to reduce the chance of them being indoctrinated but for a lot of parents this isn’t practical.
Come on ….. they only had 14 years to do this. It obviously wasn’t a priority …. unlike “gay marriage”.