Drag Queen Story Hour in Scottish Primary School

Devlesko - photos of the kids - faces clear - were out up on the school and the acts social media for starters. The act doesn’t do anything illegal, or I assume have a police record do a DRB would come up fine, but it doesn’t make them suitable to present to small kids.

God I’m so bored of the lazy arguments that go “ooooh pantomime” or “oooh 40 years ago on the telly”

40 years ago drag on tv looked this. I mean ffs the difference between that, a pantomime dame and flow job is head banging against the wall obvious

No one would think a Chippendales story hour would be a good idea. Why drag? Is it suddenly ok to expose children to adult male sexuality if the man wears a dress?

Depressingly, The Sun's write up on this is much better

www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/5317604/flowjob-drag-queen-paisley-primary-school/

As is The Star's:

www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/xxx-rated-drag-queen-called-21563900

Thanks for the clarification OvaHere.

Meanwhile Frankie Boyle enters the fray:

twitter.com/frankieboyle/status/1231933502360358913

His followers seem to think Flowjob in a primary school is a good thing.

The innocent faces of those little kids in amongst all the sexual images posted by Flowjob is just so wrong. I'd be so upset if one of them was my child.

www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/5317604/flowjob-drag-queen-paisley-primary-school/

"The kids requested a drag queen" oh FFS! Drag acts are heavily associated with sex, swearing, drinking and drugs. As far as I can tell RuPaul's Drag Race is rated a 15 so where are these 8-11 year old kids learning about drag queens?

Well done everyone who complained and brought light to this x

The Herald's write up about it seems to have been written by someone who hasn't been able to follow the story at all and thought it best just two copy and paste Mhairi's tweets

www.heraldscotland.com/news/18257834.council-apologises-inviting-flowjob-drag-act-speak-primary-school/

The Scotman article is maintaining a veil of propriety by not stating in its article the full name of the drag act. By doing this they're deliberately omitting a fact that is significant in understanding what's happened. FFS.

In the twitter link preview it mentions 'Flowjob' twice.

The council will be speaking on behalf of the school as council employees are not permitted to talk to the media without prior permission. And I imagine they're keeping the HT in question as far away from the media as humanly possible.

From my experience in (secondary) schools, inviting guests in is generally the responsibility of the school. The teacher would run it by the HT but I'd be surprised if the majority of guests were known about by the authority. At best the HT or teacher in question were stupendously naive for not checking the social media profiles of their invited guests.

"Renfrewshire Council said today it would not have invited the artist, who visited Glencoats Primary in Paisley last week, had it been aware of sexually explicit images shared on the performer’s social media profiles."

So is/was the actual invitation issued by the Council rather than by the school? Is the (SNP-run) council taking responsibility for what happened here?

What do you want kids?
We want a filthy drag act!

There are people who actually believe that kids think like that.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3613722-Convicted-paedophile-lusts-over-Desmond-the-amazing-one-trigger-warning-for-obvious-reasons#prettyPhoto

Renfrewshire Council has said it 'would not have invited the artist had it been aware of sexually explicit images shared on the performer’s social media profiles.'

I'd have thought basic background checks are fairly important when inviting adults into schools to talk to 5 year olds about sex and gender identity.

www.scotsman.com/education/row-over-flowjob-drag-act-invited-to-speak-at-scottish-primary-school-1-5095125

It shows an absolute disregard for safeguarding and dreadful judgement by the Head, teachers and that Silly Black creature. They all need hailing over the coals.

In what respect? I'm sure their enhanced disclosure was checked the same as any other person going into school.

i suppose if it is programmed for your own schools you can keep them off, take them out, or h.ed them yourselves like many others do who don't like the system.

Mhairi
Drag queen
Flowjob are all trending on twitter

The Scotman article is maintaining a veil of propriety by not stating in its article the full name of the drag act. By doing this they're deliberately omitting a fact that is significant in understanding what's happened. FFS.

“drag queens were a “fun and energetic” way to challenge gender stereotypes”
surely drag is all about reinforcing stereotypes?

It shows an absolute disregard for safeguarding and dreadful judgement by the Head, teachers and that Silly Black creature. They all need hailing over the coals.

I wonder if the parents have also seen the school rainbow twitter account (it’s very very very LGBT focussed). Our school twitter account is all ‘what the vicar said in this weeks service’, who won the football league and what’s happening with the Corovirus.

Just click on the top of your browser where it says Scotsman.com hold down then copy will come up. Click copy. Then comie here bring up message and hold finger down till paste comes up.

You have to be in the article

www.scotsman.com/education/row-over-flowjob-drag-act-invited-to-speak-at-scottish-primary-school-1-5095125

Renfrewshire council have now apologised to parents of children in Glencoats P.S. Article in the Scotsman now. Unfortunately linking to it is beyond me, sorry.

Knife fights among family members were common (along with alcoholism, the off murder attempt, and a smattering of domestic violence).

Nice place... I reiterate - (Ex) IN LAWS

'Mhairi' is now trending on Twitter in the UK.

I don't think having Owen Jones jump in to agree that anyone who has concerns is a homophobe or transphobe has helped her case all that much.

When you think that Derek Mackay was sending sexual messages to a schoolboy and that Alex Salmond's court case over sexually abusing women starts soon, the SNP are coming across as the abuser's party. If they don't suspend Mhairi Black over this then they're telling everyone they don't see this neglect of child safeguarding issues as a problem