Headteachers’ union picked the same charity partner as ASDA

[partystress]

This is my union. Proudly announcing partnership with Diversity Role Models.

I am accessing union support at the moment as my (male) boss’s behaviour towards me (and another female colleague) has moved into bullying. So I can’t just resign my membership.

I am going to write and link to the Transgender Trend and SSA pages on DRM. Will also link to Baroness Nicholson’s letter to ASDA and reference the Newsnight GIDS programme.

Anything else I could drop in/ link to?

And if you are or know any NAHT members, please point out that this isn’t the lovely be kind, respect everyone ‘charity’ it sounds like. It’s junior Stonewall.

No advice I'm afraid but I know Diversity Role Models are very much a 'go to' organisation for Pshe teachers. The capture is pretty total. More power to you. (I am NEU)

I think this is the thing that has rocked me most in the two or so years I’ve been following this. Especially at this time. Headteachers are on their knees and the NAHT has done a great job of supporting them through these past three months. But these campaign groups that have spotted the opportunity of a new curriculum and overstretched schools and produced such lovely, comprehensive resources to make life easier for teachers have picked the perfect moment to slide this awful regressive and manipulative agenda into schools without proper scrutiny.

And now they’ve got the most respected voices in school leadership on board. I’m bewildered by how, with my politics, I’m left looking to a Tory peer and Liz Truss for leadership.

Look beyond the political parties. Politicians often say they get on better with people from other parties than their own.

@partystress

I think this is the thing that has rocked me most in the two or so years I’ve been following this. Especially at this time. Headteachers are on their knees and the NAHT has done a great job of supporting them through these past three months. But these campaign groups that have spotted the opportunity of a new curriculum and overstretched schools and produced such lovely, comprehensive resources to make life easier for teachers have picked the perfect moment to slide this awful regressive and manipulative agenda into schools without proper scrutiny.

And now they’ve got the most respected voices in school leadership on board. I’m bewildered by how, with my politics, I’m left looking to a Tory peer and Liz Truss for leadership.

I received an email from Twinkl today linking to a range of free resources produced in partnership with the LGBT+ charity ‘Just Like Us’ for School Diversity week so that parents can still participate at home.

@Mingymoo. I don’t have a Twinkl subscription. Are parents accessing direct? Or do schools have to choose to share as part of home learning provision?

Part of me hopes the former, and that they’ve gone full-on with the wrong body, embrace discomfort, gender unicorn message as it might wake parents up to what’s going on.

Really

Part of me hopes the former, and that they’ve gone full-on with the wrong body, embrace discomfort, gender unicorn message as it might wake parents up to what’s going on

Previous thread, OP WhenIsTheEasyBit wrote,
Sun 24-Feb-19
"Twinkl has fallen for the rainbow guff

For non-teachers, Twinkl is a huge part of many teachers' lives. They produce colourful, generally reasonable quality resources- worksheets, displays, vocabulary mats etc. Their stuff links closely to the National Curriculum and they add topical stuff for eg Olympics, royal weddings etc. They are seen as trustworthy and run Facebook groups that thousands of teachers follow and use as a place to discuss issues and ask for help.

Today they have posted 'If you do one thing tonight, read this blog: Trans teen "What I wish my primary teachers had understood " '. There are accompanying resources.

I am not a Twinkl subscriber so I can't see everything, but I can link to the blog which includes things like "why can't toilets be gender neutral?" and sleeping arrangements on residential trips.

Some teachers pay their own subscription to Twinkl, others work in schools that subscribe. They are a huge part of the education landscape and seen as very mainstream, establishment even. It alarms me hugely that they are peddling this stuff with no reference to the equality act. It has the hallmarks of them having asked the wrong people to advise them.

Could any MN Twinkl members who feel as I do let Twinkl know about Transgender Trend so that they see an alternative viewpoint at least? And perhaps express some disappointment about the disregard for girls' rights, eg Year 6 girls having to share toilets with boys as they deal with periods for the first time."

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3516454-twinkl-has-fallen-for-the-rainbow-guff

Thanks @R0wantrees. Does indeed look like capture. The recent withdrawal of LA guidance (Oxfordshire + others) might be worth pointing out to Twinkl too if they’ve taken it open themselves to advise on toilets.