Equaliteach in secondary school

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Hi. My child's secondary school has announced it will be partnering with Equaliteach next year, as part of their Equally Safe program "with a special emphasis on identity based bullying". Equaliteach does seem heavily invested in promoting gender ideology, which I am not comfortable with for many reasons. I want to raise my concerns with the school, but I need some guidance please if anyone has experience of how best to tackle this? It's a Catholic school by the way. Thanks very much.

Not my area of expertise but have a look at Safe Schools Alliance. I'm sure someone onebe along soon with some great advice

Ask for a meeting. Ask what they will be teaching and how it is in line with the Catholic teachings of the school.

Hmm. Equaliteach talk a lot about equality & diversity and offering children safe spaces to discuss. What do they mean by this? Does it include all the relevant protected characteristics or is it rainbow washing for mc white students? When they talk about identity what do they have in mind? Is it a trojan horse course to gaslight children into accepting an ideology / mixed sex changing rooms etc and push the trans agenda or is it genuinely relevant for the schools ?

Maybe ask for the school bullying statistics? Incidents & responses. What categories of children are being bullied? The how does the training specifically address the bullying issues in the school? Have they completed surveys, audits, observations?

Some of the LGBT anti bullying materials are very good - BUT, schools need to ensure that they know what the bullying issues are and ensure that they address the real issues in the school that matter to children and the community - not activists with programmes to sell to schools.

And while I'm on a roll, ask the school what due diligence they've done? Have they looked at the teaching materials? What language will be used with children? Will they be being taught that they can magically change sex and that puberty blockers are great? What language do they use? Are the words girls, women and lesbians considered transphobic? Is it transphobic for girls to refuse to undress in front of a boy self IDing as a girl in a changing rom?

Make them ask and check what's being taught. Good anti bullying principles or gender woowoo?

Thanks so much for all of your replies, all so helpful. I need to be on top of all of this!

You say this is a Catholic School. Are you aware that the Catholic Church is opposed to gender ideology and have issued a circular stating their position? It is very clear. I've seen it posted on Mumsnet in the past. If the school aren't receptive raise it with the diocese or perhaps raise it anyway with them, I'm sure they'd like to know what is going on in their schools. One of the governors will be appointed by the diocese, they should take it up on your behalf or approach them directly if that fails.

Hi @Apollo442 thank you, yes, in fact i specifically chose this school over the school where all my child's friends went as I naively thought it would be safe from all this nonsense! I have had a look at the "Male and Female He created them". Good idea re contacting diocesan governor, thanks.