Mother challenges school over compulsory Pride march

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This looks like an important case.
christianconcern.com/news/mother-to-challenge-school-that-forced-4-year-old-to-take-part-in-pride-event/

A Christian mother whose four-year-old son was required to take part in a school’s LGBT pride parade against her will is to have her legal case heard in court this week.

Izzy Montague made national headlines after being aggressively told by the headteacher of Heaver’s Farm Primary School in Croydon, South London, that her son could not opt-out of the Pride event, despite the families’ Christian beliefs.

The case is the first time that a UK court will scrutinise the legality of imposing LGBT ideology on primary schools. The court will look at the impact it has on religious discrimination, the human rights of parents and their children, the right to opt out of sex education, and a schools’ duty of political neutrality. The case is set to be heard at Central London County Court for eight days, from Wednesday 1 February 2023.

The deputy head teacher was a trained Stonewall ‘champion’ who was given a brief by the school to focus on the theme of “no hierarchy of equalities” during so-called Pride month (June). No advance warning was given to parents, and Izzy only learnt of the parade from a newspaper article.

After requesting that her son be withdrawn from the parade, Izzy was told that if her son did not attend it would be seen as a behavioural issue.

I tend to smell a rat if black women are portrayed as threatening when they happen to be saying something an institution doesn't like.

In my experience, detention is strictly a senior school thing and more like 30 minutes than 3 hours. Hard to believe a Mother as switched on as this lady would have been willing to leave her child in detention at this school where staff inappropriately wear political slogans on their clothing.

+Ms Papas said: ‘I was trying to support members of staff who said they did not feel safe around her*.

Safe from being beaten up by her? Or safe from hearing her say she doesn’t want her child taught certain things such as TW are not W?

The stuff about the detention is really shocking. It seems this 5 ye old has been treated really badly. Where's Ofsted? The LA safeguarding? No school should be testing Reception children like this. I can't believe their defence is justifying it in court...

"No, all children misbehave, but not like that,’ said the father.

‘And you agree when a child misbehaved at school the school is entitled and must address those issues...your son misbehaves and gets sent to leadership room, you accept that?’ asked Mr Clarke.

‘No I don’t accept that and I don’t accept that they kept him there for over three hours and that he has another detention the following day,’ said Mr Montague.

Mr Clarke said: ‘You say that your son has been picked on because you and your wife complained about LGBTG event yes?’

‘Yes,’ replied Mr Montague."

It's highly likely in these extreme cases, the school staff, headmaster or relevant teacher, belong to the LGBTQ+ group & I won't be surprised if they don't have their own biological children. Any reasonable parents wouldn't treat children like this.

Has anyone got an update on this?

I haven't seen anything. There hasn't been any coverage of the head being cross examined which I always find the really revealing bit.
Ì think we're just waiting for the verdict which seems to take ages.

from the earlier linked article:

”Where we could bring everyone together and say they were proud of what they had learnt”

This smacks of disingenuousness from the Head. The ‘Pride’ event / march they held was clearly Pride with a capital P, not pride in “what they had learnt”

Well we do force religion on children at schools by law, but the parents can opt-out.

The objection to section 28 was always along the lines, "we don't want to promote homosexuality, but this scares teachers away from being able to mention it at all".

Funny that we now see the promotion of homosexuality in schools.

OP please update this thread when you hear more. Unless the Mother threatened violence she should not have been banned from the school-staff claiming feeling 'unsafe' due to a differing point of view is ludicrous & unprofessional. (Not in the best interests of the child at all.) Schools are in a tricky position at the moment-how can they promote acceptance of LBG and T when T is actually incredibly homophobic-denying the existence of same sex attraction! Good luck to this Mother, I think the 3 hour detention is crazy, and the Head teachers daughter clearly is pushing her own agenda.

Schools could either just stay out of it completely, or allow both viewpoints, including e.g. that homosexuality is sinful, and "GC" views on the trans issue.

It's actually not that difficult imo whichever way you go. It's just that schools don't want to be impartial in some cases.

happydappy2 · Today 10:08

Unless the Mother threatened violence she should not have been banned from the school-staff claiming feeling 'unsafe' due to a differing point of view is ludicrous & unprofessional.

It's absolutely ridiculous, isn't it? Compare it to the teacher posting here, who was subjected to 25 minutes of aggressive abuse by a child's father and had no back up at all.

The judge has not ruled yet - Izzy Montague the mum of the 4 year old is a brave woman to push back on this bullying ideology, let's hope the judge sees sense. The worms are definitely turning.

It was reported in the Times today that the mother lost her case. Unfortunately I do not have a share token.

Here is another report I found:
christianconcern.com/news/parents-to-appeal-in-4-year-old-forced-pride-parade-case/

I wonder if it would have gone differently had she not been Christian. Or not challenged based on faith but on the appropriateness of sexual information to a 4 year old.

That said it wouldn't protect the kids as they got older

I'm not sure if this will work or not

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c18bf378-e3af-11ed-9d9d-927ca944996b?shareToken=da6faf629dc8d67d8279d4bfe57c7fd1

Yes, thank you @Magenta82 it worked. The mother says she is going to appeal.

It seems extraordinary that
a child is supposed to go on any pride March for any reason whatsoever.

It would be interesting to see a transcript of the whole court hearing. Would it have failed because of some terms relating to what Christianity is? Or because a Pride March May not explicitly promote an anti-Christian stance?