To want to nip this in the bud ( LGBTQ views , child )

The problem isn't your son. He's 11.
The problem is "an LGBTQ assembly".

Just have an assembly. No names, no labels. If one week it happens to feature an LGB person, well, of course that's fine. But it's the label/theme which is tedious and unnecessary. As a taxpayer, I'm getting absolutely sick of this.

The problem isn't your son. He's 11.
The problem is "an LGBTQ assembly".

Just have an assembly. No names, no labels. If one week it happens to feature an LGB person, well, of course that's fine. But it's the label/theme which is tedious and unnecessary. As a taxpayer, I'm getting absolutely sick of this.

Because I actually don’t give a shit about trans, like many I’m fed up with trans issues taking over threads and because I also think that homophobia in schools as listed and described by the op is what the thread is about and far more important. Last I heard posters can reply to the posts they choose so I will be.

A monthly lgbtq assembly is perfectly reasonable
I still don't get how you are so tiger-mother about your G son and yet are happy for him to be force-teamed with the TQ.
This has been mentioned several times and you keep swerving it.

Who has been racist in this circumstance? Where has anyone said someone is a 'victim'?

So those of us whose children are subjected to homophobia, racism etc can’t be pleased when it is dealt with properly and those carrying out said homophobia are the victims? Yeah ok.

Exactly - hardly anyone querying the logic of this every single month when half of MN is frothing at the mouth if a C of E Primary dares to include anything..you know,...vaguely Christian in their Assemblies

Quite. Why are we having any specific assembly every single month. Do we have a system here? Or is it something school have stuck in adhoc to box tick.

why at an assembly?

what is the assembly, what’s its structure.

I have no issue with what you are saying and teaching OP.

but I do not get this forced once a month assembly thing.

as PP have said it should be all encompassing part of a general learning process. Assembly here is to zoom in one whatever has been happening that week, and iron out any issues. plus general education. Bullying, behaviour, lateness, road safety, farm safety, river safety, sun safety, tolerance, inclusion, different religions, LGBTQ. But not one thing once a month forever in school.

Where did you get the idea that you delighted in the homophobia? I said you delighted in the punishment of the children who were reported.

No I didn’t delight in the homophobia my son was subjected to. Funny how the homophobes are seen as the victims.🙄Thank goodness those working in schools have sense and don’t tolerate homophobia, racism etc.

But that's what this whole threads about? Applying 'adult framework' and punishment to children's behaviours? And of course delighting in the punishment of children who are not behaving in the ways adults would be expected to?

What does that make the word 'boyfriend' disappear?

No fancying doesn’t have sexual connotations. It barely has romantic ones especially not when discussing children.

I did not “claim” she fancied said boy. It was fairly obvious she did in the context of the conversation.

The problem is you are for some reason applying an adult framework to it. Which I am not.

I cannot take you seriously if you think Mandy’s sexual relationship with an adult man is the same as an 11 year old discussing their age approporiate crush.

Although maybe if Mandy had a sensible aunt to talk to the aunt could have ascertained that what she was discussing was.

Stop obsessing over sexual relationships. Nobody is discussing sexual relationships.

You need to let that go.

And no “fancy” was not my word but if you want to make things up to argue against be my guest.

You seem fixated in only seeing “boyfriend / girlfriend” with an adult context which is your issue not mine.

Click on the quotes.

No. They used the word 'boyfriend'

I mean, it's right there, for all to see.

They did as they were directly referencing me. They did nor say they spontaneously ask their 11 years if they are dating.

So how did 11 yr old Mandy know the difference?

And I’m not talking about an 11 yr old innocently discussing the boy she ‘fancies’ (your previous word) - I am talking about you discussing it with her and putting a label of ‘boyfriend’ on it that takes it a step further.

In my experience, 11 yr old girls don’t come out and say “I fancy so and so”. They might go as far as to say they ‘like’ someone but as I remember it was just squeals and nudges and their friends knew what they meant and would dare each other to go and tell the boy in question. I’m suspecting that ‘fancy’ is your word and boyfriend is definitely your word. Moving her further along the thought process with adult approval. Where is the boundary? Are we leaving it to the child to decide?

But that's not what the poster said 🤷‍♀️

Within the context of a child coming to them to discuss a boy they fancied.

Use “boy-you-fancy” if you prefer.

You cannot let go of this “sexual relationship” concept as clear by your mention of Mandy Smith.

If you think an underaged girl in a sexual relationship with an adult man is the same as an 11 year old girl innocently discussing an 11 year old boy she has a crush on, who she met at a school trip then….I don’t know what to say.