In March, while Muslim parents continued to protest in Birmingham about liberal sex education teaching in primary schools, a Christian mother in Croydon launched a legal challenge against a school and council for the way she was treated after making a complaint about a ‘Pride’ event at her child’s school.
Heavers Farm Primary School organised a parade which included a clear celebration of LGBT lifestyles in June 2018. Mrs Izzy Montague, one of a group of parents who complained at their children being forced to take part in the event, reported that she and others were treated dismissively and then victimised following their complaints to the school about the event.
Some parents were barred from school premises after complaining. A member of staff wore a T-shirt to one meeting with the slogan: ‘Why be racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic, when you can just be quiet?’
Breach of parental rights
The legal action alleges that her parental rights were breached and that she was victimised and harassed.
It is her hope that, more than just finding redress for her own treatment and what she sees as the indoctrination of her son, at a national level there can be some clarity that schools cannot force controversial moral and political views onto children under the dubious cover of their equality duty.
April’s en reported that Damian Hinds, both in TV interviews and in Parliament, said that for young children, relationships education would be little more than recognising that there are different family types.
Confusing teaching
Controversial materials used in schools include Educate and Celebrate’s use of a Cinderella retelling1. It celebrates the abused protagonist, who likes engineering, coming out as transgender.
This is a subtle undermining of the freedom of women to choose any career without being called ‘male’. Tragically, the story shows a link between transgender feelings and dysfunctional childhood experiences as the girl ‘becomes’ a boy after being victimised at the hands of her abusive brothers.
