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Jul 12, 2022 by

from Free to Speak:

Concern is increasing over the content of lessons taught via the relationships and sex education (RSE) curriculum.

The overspill from lessons into school policies and environments is creating a culture in which safeguarding is regularly overridden in favour of ideological positions.

Free To Speak wants to help you to voice your concerns about RSE teaching and the policies in your child’s school, or the educational setting in which you work.

What is the problem?

Gender Theory In Schools.

Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) is now a statutory part of the curriculum in all areas of the UK. However, unregulated external providers are producing factually inaccurate materials for use in schools that are developmentally inappropriate and often completely ignore normal safeguarding protocols. These materials are widely used to fulfil the government requirements for teaching RSE. None of them are accredited by the DfE or properly monitored by regulatory bodies.

Department for Education guidance states that parents should be involved in the development of the RSE curriculum and shown the materials that will be used. Some schools are refusing to allow the viewing of materials, often citing copyright infringement.

Department for Education guidance also states that political issues, such as gender theory, are taught with a ‘balanced presentation of opposing views’ and that children should not be exposed to oversexualised content in the RSE curriculum.

Some materials are shockingly explicit, promote extreme sexual behaviours and are not age-appropriate in any way. Very little balance is provided and contested ideas are presented as fact. Other resources use harmful stereotypes to suggest that someone who doesn’t conform to gender stereotypes may really be the opposite sex.

Help us show how widespread the problems are.

We need your testimony to demonstrate that teaching of contentious gender theory isn’t just a problem created by a few activist schools and teachers, but one of a wider culture within education that overrides facts and evidence in favour of an ideological agenda.

Read and submit testimony here

See also:

Losing our religion, by Angus Saul, Artillery Row:
“Wanting to ensure children are receiving a proper education is a commendable aim. But a problem emerges when the Government says it is “not acceptable” for some children to attend schools which “isolate them from mainstream society…as a deliberate rejection of that society’s values”.

RSE in schools is not fit for purpose, from They Work For You:
RSE is exposing far too many children to adult sexuality and adult ideology and is doing them harm, says Miriam Cates MP in a Westminster Hall speech.

 

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