Nursery Pride face painting

So what? Their parents can do rainbow face painting at home, then!

It’s inappropriate. Stories about different types of families, yes absolutely as a pp said. What has face painting got to do with nursery education?

That is no reason to plaster the faces of the children of non-gay parents with adverts for
LGBT awareness.

Not without assistance

I might point out that three of the world’s major religions regard rainbows as a symbol of God’s covenant with mankind after the Flood, and that as a Christian I hope that that story was told as well. Otherwise it is a sacred symbol being appropriated….

I would think this is a lazy misinterpretation from a political organisation like Stonewall etc.

In light of the Supreme Court ruling, I think it would be wise for education institutions to throw out any advice they have received from such groups/organisations because it would seem to be biased and possibly not legal.

Remember the Pride rainbow has six colours, it is missing indigo found in traditionally seven coloured rainbows.

Do to the current backlash a lot of gay people don't associate with the rainbow, they're beyond it. Really it's just another over-commercialised symbol now.

Celebrate LGBT by reading stories where different families feature like ones with a single dad or two mums. Celebrating pride is not an Ofsted requirement!

Ask them for a breakdown of all the other days they’re celebrating and how they’ll be involving the children. Make sure IWD (that’s the SC’s definition of women) is included.

The nursery will be expected to celebrate LGBT +, different cultures etc. It will be part of their Ofsted assessment. All nurseries will do this or a variation on it. My daughter works in a nursery and it is pushed hard, even though parents do complain.

So you have a story time about different types of families. The nursery doesn’t have to participate in political activism.

So what’s wrong with acknowledging that?

If it was about the LGB I would totally be behind them but it’s only ever about the T now.

So?

Perhaps I was a little quick to criticise the face painting but in mitigation, Pride celebrations very rarely separate the LGB from the TQ and I therefore, won’t apologise for my criticism.

Anyhow, unless they’ve asked prior to paint being applied to kids skin, they should get permission from the parents just in case a child has an allergic sensitivity to the paint.

Different parts of the country hold them at different dates as far as I know but I’m not aware of any happening at the moment. It’s a strange coincidence isn’t it, almost sinister.

Some of the children will have gay parents.

Lesbian visibility day is 26th April. I think there's a few lgbtq dates in this month from memory. Although pride month is normally June.

I’m so sick of rainbows ‘being appropriated’ 🙄.

They’re rainbows. They’re an amazing beautiful thing 🌈.

I’m happy to celebrate rainbows and sunshine and rain. For their own sake - without them (sun and rain) we’d all be dead after all.

Rainbows 🌈 and bees 🐝 🍯 rule. So maybe you can divert the celebration to where it should be!

That would be the last time I’d have taken my children there.

The staff can celebrate their beliefs without involving children.