Good News: Schools Guidance U-turn

May 9, 2019 by

from Coalition for Marriage:

Last year the Government proposed what amounted to a ban on disagreeing with same-sex marriage in all independent schools in England. Debate was going to be closed off.

I am delighted to say that the effective ban has been reversed. Debate is explicitly protected in the final version of the independent school standards guidance. The position of teachers is now much safer. A real achievement for C4M supporters.

The draft had said that official school standards were breached if a curriculum “suggests that same-sex marriages or civil partnerships should not be recognised as being lawful unions under civil law”.

This raised the prospect of Ofsted failing a school if a teacher said they backed the repeal of same-sex marriage. If it was merely ‘suggested’ in lessons that some people disagreed with gay marriage there was a risk that too could fall foul of the guidance.

The wording was completely unacceptable and had to change. We expected even more draconian plans for state schools.

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