Thursday, January 31, 2008

Gay Policy in Brit Schools Announced

As a timely warmup to next month's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month celebration, the British Department of Children, Schools and Families has issued a new policy to combat homophobia in the education system. Homosexuality apparently now is considered a race and homophobia is racism.

Announced today by Schools Secretary Ed Balls, the new policy includes the following:
1) Teachers don't assume that students have a "mum and dad,"

2) Teachers indoctrinate students on the idea of same-sex couple,

3) "Parents" should replace "mum and dad" in correspondence to students' homes,

4) Classes on marriage should include civil unions and gay adoption rights,

5) Children who call classmates "gay" are to be tagged as racists under the zero tolerance crackdown.
More.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

we should know whats our children doing NOW...

Anonymous said...

Interesting. As a student teacher in the U.S., I can testify here that the infatuation with phonics is not limited to conservatives. Everyone thinks phonics is "the" answer. I am especially enjoying my attempts to teach Spanish-speaking immigrants to read English using phonics. I am considering setting up a control group of English-speaking students and attempting to teach them phonetic Klingon. Who would get it first?

Your comments on discipline suggest to me that you associate discipline with infliction of physical violence. It is possible and indeed desirable to discipline without physical violence. With regard to disruption of the classroom, have you thought about how violence and the threat of violence affect learning?

I'm looking forward to seeing how you "moderate" this post.