Rod Liddle's column today is about the sexual harassment being reported in private schools. He says private schools are no worse than state schools in this respect (almost certainly true). Anyway, the bit I thought was interesting was this, almost a throwaway remark:
"More to the point, though, is the DfE’s conviction that PSHE is the route to salvation. This subject, in various forms, took up two hours a week of my daughter’s schooling, despite it consisting of stuff that should be left to parents to inculcate. Two hours! Tendentious, progressive rot channelled into their heads, much of the material coming from the LGBT campaigning group Stonewall, an organisation that thinks women don’t really exist. The pro-trans propaganda, the promotion of the idea that everyone can be exactly what they want to be (at the age of 11) and hang the consequences for the individual or society. The facile and plainly wrong insistence that boys and girls are exactly the same in their sexual desires. PSHE was the main reason we moved away from the state sector: it is not compulsory in private schools."
I wonder how many parents feel the same way? It's interesting that he felt so strongly about it that it was the main reason for moving his daughter out of the state sector.
Article here for anyone who wants to comment - I don't have a share token, I'm afraid:
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lay-off-private-schools-gavin-theres-bad-behaviour-in-comprehensives-too-86d92gfmd