Any teachers - what do you see happening in schools?

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Prompted by seeing a few posts now on what’s happening in schools - including my own daughter’s previous and present school. What are you being told to do and what are you having to do in service to the new ideology?
What support is there for teachers who don’t believe it?
What can be done to help you and what can parents do to help?
Link support threads here please and any other information we can gather.

I have to say I went straight to our MP and spoke to them. Very nice conservative who agreed with me.

Also interesting to see how many teachers suddenly have Harry Potter facemasks and lanyards when I know for a fact they have not even read jk Rowling..... Got my Ravenclaw lanyard on order.

I find it appalling that schools allow children to take on new identities - this is supporting this agenda, children and teenagers go though many phases - that is normal. By allowing name changes/different gender the schools are in many ways making it harder for the child or teenager to move back from their stance. We seem to have lost common sense in this area - teenager and children want to rebel and this is a phase

@SunnydaleClassProtector99

FFS everyone knows children love badges and stickers. No one has twigged it might be that rather than some personal identity crisis. I've had children literally steal pages of stickers before. Badges and stickers are super high on children's priorities list.

Badges and stickers and rainbows and hair dye and glitter and sparkles and flags.

This is what my daughter says the girls are like in her school. One of them was asking about the LGBTQ club three times a day until the teacher set up an online one and her group of five friends go to it and make rainbow flags. My stepdaughter is so obsessed with all the flags she was making YouTube playlists of them and leaving comments on them all saying which colours she likes most on them.

I can’t believe no parents have objected. I wish more would, because they might be listened to.

My DD finished school (prematurely obviously) last year and I only found out about all this after. She told me that there was a transgirl in her year but she's not sure about toilets/changing etc. My DD always wanted to avoid PE, said it's because she hated it but now I'm wondering

Just commenting to placemats

PLACEMARK! Placemats indeed!

In our many many interactions with DD’s school about our objections over their refusal to support us in following watchful waiting, we have had two teachers who seemed to understand the issue and had good conversations with us. In both cases, the next time we spoke, they had retreated to the school position of following the child’s lead and unquestioned affirmation which left us disappointed and under the impression that the school position is driven from the very top.

I do wonder how many teachers there are simply unable to speak out.

Lots of sensible discussions taking place at my school (secondary).

Lots of Year 7 girls declaring pronouns. I've requested a 'script' so that we can politely field this sort of thing whilst maintaining safeguarding protocols.

@SmokedDuck

There is a ton of shit that comes out o the LGBT club at my kids school. The teacher in charge is basically just a woman who says what she thinks about things to the kids and is supposed to have some capacity to guide them talking about dating and such.

Wouldn't some of these LGBT clubs pose a potential safeguarding risk? Mixed age children discussing issues relating to sexual orientation in schools? 11 - 18 years olds ? Even though the likelihood is that there will be endless tedious lectures about pronouns and different genders, the potential for 11 / 12 year olds being exposed to age inappropriate discussions between 16 - 18 years olds in a poorly managed group is considerable. Some teachers have completely lost their safeguarding senses,

Placemarking

Not children related but my school changed our two male/female toilets to gender neutral without consulting the staff.

There is an article today in the telegraph. Following the consultation on toilets, the government are going to amend building regs so that public building have to provide separate female only loos. They can only provide unisex if they are self contained rooms with their own sink. I don't know if it will apply to workplaces but it's worth looking into. It backs up your argument that the current situation with staff loos isn't good practice if you do want to have the argument.

Good article today in the Mail about schools not informing parents about new identities - there's a thread about it.

@ValancyRedfern

Good article today in the Mail about schools not informing parents about new identities - there's a thread about it.

Link: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4246032-Schools-giving-transgender-girls-boys-names-without-telling-parents-Mail-link

There is a transboy in one of my classes. I just taught her class a lesson on inherited and environmental variation which (because of student questions) made quite clear that humans can't change sex and gender is a set of stereotypes.

As long as information is factual and tolerence is emphasised we shouldn't be afraid to tackle difficult conversations.