Homosexuality in the Classroom.

[Darcey1]

My daughter is nine. Yesterday she came home from school and said that her teacher had told the class that she was a lesbian. The teacher is about to have one of these civil partnerships and according to my daughter told the class that girls could marry girls and boys could marry boys if they wanted to.It was according to her entirely natural. This seems like corruption to me. I don't want my daughter exposed to this kind of lifestyle.

I am very upset about this and don't know what to do. Am I over reacting? Should the school have warned us that the teacher was going to do this? Do you think I should make a complaint to the school?

oooh post a few, and just enjoy imagining a raised eyebrow or two if there's any bigots in the sorting office!

WB;

yep, homosexuals are capable of falling in love and having a relationship...not sure i've ever said they can't..?

seeker;

fine, if that's the way you want it..

LG;

that's interesting re; studies on lesbian parents....thanks for info.....

goml;

yep, childhood was...er, "difficult"...but that's a long tome ago and my mother was only doing what she thought was best..
would i have prefered non-abusive lesbians as parents...?

no...i wouldn't have.....my mother made mistakes...that's all.

this thread has been going on for years now....

time to leave it

adios x

FFS, are we still getting angry about things like this? My teacher came out to us in the 1980s, and I don't remember it being that much of an issue then. What would be great is if we didn't have to formally educate children about these issues, but if there knowledge was just absorbed...sort of acquired as a natural thing as they grew up.
Oh, wait a moment...that was probably what this teacher was trying to do; just sharing something that's an exciting part of her life.

"FFS, are we still getting angry about things like this?"
It's not going to become a non-issue though, is it, as long as gay people are still victims of bullying in schools, discrimination in the workplace, violence (and murder).

Sorry, didn't make myself clear. We should be angry at homophobia. We should challenge it. Clearly education is still needed in schools-and formal education at that-given some of the posts on here. What I meant was why are people angry about homosexuality being discussed and treated like the everyday part of life it is? I just wish we as a society had moved beyondthis point.

Ah, I concur Bells.

And, also, theer is still a hell of a lot of homophobia around at schools. To cut a long story short DD was accused of being a lesbian at school a couple of weeks ago, she stood up for hereslf and said that some of her family members were lesbians and so what, however it backfired horribly and she was nastily bullied, which extended beyond school.

The school was very supportive however her follow students still kept on at it, she was incredibly unhappy and I had to take the majopr step of moving her school at the age of 13. She is very happy now and tbh ot was the best thing I could have done, however the fact that teenagers today can be so vile and homophobic is awful. The mroe kids are exposed to homosexuality as being nromal the better.

DP - I know that you say that you are not passing on your beliefs/prejudices to your kids, you are, you know.

Thanks for that Lenin. The school situation was shit. To be honest the school itself could not have been more supportive, however no matter how hard the school came down on the peple who were actually bullied, as dd was seen as a 'grass' she was shunned in very delicate ways by the others. She was basically ignored as being a trouble maker who went running to the teachers. She was threatened on the bus as wwell. Also hissed at and other low level but continuous stuff going on in the classroom to the extent that she ended up staying in internal excklusion (with all the misbehaved kids who had been sent there) and had her lunch there as well.

One morningh DP drove her to school (had given up on the bus at this pouint) and she cried and cried the whole way, DP said he turned round at the school gates and drove home and said she wasn't going there again. Luckily found her a good school, it is not a grammar like her old one but I couldn't care less.

Wish had MNed about all this as I needed it - however was off MN for a couple of weeks (was flitting between working at home to be there for dd) and to be honest I was so depressed by all of it I didn't want to talk about it anymore, if you see what I mean.

Anyway, thank god she is happy now. She has had her confidence knocked out of her and is certainly far more cynical than she used to be, which is horrible in a 13 year old. Was recommended that she join Army/Air cadets as they help hugey with self-esteem issues, she has joined Air cadets now (have to reconcile that my dd is running around with camouflage gear on etc) however it has helped hugely and she is in a far batter place than 1 month ago.

You sound more upset than your daughter.

Stop being homophobic! Jeez!

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