Stonewall

[EqualityGovernor]

I am a primary school governor at my children's school, with a special responsibility for ED&I.

The school has a genuinely diverse staff, and I'm confident that equality, diversity and inclusion runs through their entire curriculum. Over the last two years, the school has completed awards with EqualiTeach and Rainbow Flag. I have looked at both of these in some detail and am confident that the quality is appropriate, useful and being applied day-to-day.

In next year's goals, the school has said they would like to get a Stonewall award and this set off alarm bells with me. However, I am posting this in Education (rather than Feminism) to get a rounded view, rather than just supporting my own concerns as a gender critical feminist.

Has your school completed any Stonewall awards? Did you have any concerns about content - especially from a safeguarding perspective? Is it even appropriate (i.e. strategic, not operational) for a governor to express their opinion on the type of award the school decides to go for?

All opinions and experiences gratefully taken on board.

I am wondering why a school would want a third award in a very similar area to two already existing awards. There are plenty of awards to work towards covering for example curriculum areas such as art or sport, social concerns such as physical or mental health, or extended curriculum areas such as forest schools or sustainability. Surely it would make more sense to develop the school knowledge base in other ways, putting the skills and knowledge already learned in the previous awards into positive action. (Plus many of the Stonewall ideas are viewed with growing concern , but you know that) . Why is someone pushing this particular agenda, is it about personal aims and belief, because it strikes me that it is not about school improvement or staff skillset.