Parents against LGBT awareness in Birmingham (UK) school

[mustang]

Protests were held outside the high court on Monday over a bid to permanently ban activists against LGBT equality lessons from demonstrating outside a Birmingham primary school.

Holding up gag order signs, protesters gathered outside the court ahead of a hearing to stop protests against equality lessons taking place at Anderton Park primary school.

The school, in the Sparkhill area of the city, has become the focus of a long campaign to halt LGBT equality messages being taught in the classroom.

Headteacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, who was subjected to almost three hours of cross-examination, told the court that protest leader Shakeel Afsar had behaved aggressively towards her and tried to “whip up a frenzy” in a bid to stop the lessons.

There is a way out of the schools LGBT protest mess – but ministers need to get behind it. The heated protests were led by mainly by Pakistani-heritage Muslim parents, who say the lessons are in conflict with their “religious beliefs and family values”.

On Monday, a high court application by Birmingham city council to make an exclusion zone around the school permanent started. The council launched court action in a bid to prevent more protests outside the school after about 300 people gathered at the gates in May.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...t-lesson-protests-at-birmingham-school-starts

What is wrong with a universal message of loving and accepting anyone regardless of whom they are?

 

[Itachi]

I am against teaching LGBTQI in schools.

You need stepping Stones in order to grasp a bigger concept. Without it, little knowledge could lead to misleading perception.

Simple example, why not algebra is taught in schools before teaching addition or substraction?

Without the basics, they will be a deer on front of a headlight. Let them learn about human interactions first. Gender fluidity could wait till college where they will decide on their own after attaining the minimal knowledge.

 

[mustang]

I am against teaching LGBTQI in schools.

You need stepping Stones in order to grasp a bigger concept. Without it, little knowledge could lead to misleading perception.

Simple example, why not algebra is taught in schools before teaching addition or substraction?

Without the basics, they will be a deer on front of a headlight. Let them learn about human interactions first. Gender fluidity could wait till college where they will decide on their own after attaining the minimal knowledge.

Do we know which grades were exposed to that in the school? Could not decipher that from the article. What are your thoughts on sex-ed in schools? I support that and if we are ok with that, then I would say kids must be taught LGBTQI along with sex-ed.

 

[Itachi]

Do we know which grades were exposed to that in the school? Could not decipher that from the article. What are your thoughts on sex-ed in schools? I support that and if we are ok with that, then I would say kids must be taught LGBTQI along with sex-ed.

Sex ed in most countries are taught in sophomore years. By then, the boy or girl have basic knowledge about sex hence they can grasp the content. If LGBTQ introduced in sophomore/freshman years, then I have no Objection. Anything before than that is risky.

 

[mustang]

Sex ed in most countries are taught in sophomore years. By then, the boy or girl have basic knowledge about sex hence they can grasp the content. If LGBTQ introduced in sophomore/freshman years, then I have no Objection. Anything before than that is risky.

I concur with the age appropriate factor. My inference (from what I see) is that the parents here are protesting against LGBTQI period ... not LGBTQI at an early age.