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LGBT teaching row: DfE 'pressured school' to halt lessons

The government put "extreme pressure" on a school to stop lessons on LGBT relationships, a chief executive said.
Hazel Pulley said Parkfield Community School suspended the teachings following "frantic phone calls" from the Department for Education (DfE).
"The DfE really wanted the protests to stop. They wanted it out of the press," said Ms Pulley, who is head of the trust which runs the school.
The DfE is "working intensively with the school and parents", it said.
Ms Pulley also urged new Prime Minister Boris Johnson to step in and make guidance on the issue for head teachers clearer or risk further divisions in communities.

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Reply 1

username4750714

Tory government for you.Lots of Tories don't have good track records on the issue.

Reply 2

limetang

Original post by James2312

Tory government for you.Lots of Tories don't have good track records on the issue.

Do you have any evidence to suggest that the request to stop came from a minister? Most likely a civil servant doing what they thought would be best at the time (rightly or wrongly)

Reply 3

Napp

I dont see a problem here...

Reply 4

Napp

Original post by limetang

Do you have any evidence to suggest that the request to stop came from a minister? Most likely a civil servant doing what they thought would be best at the time (rightly or wrongly)

Doubtful, a bit too far beyonf their remit. More than likely came from the ministers officer form one of his advisers/aids etc.

Reply 5

Obolinda

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This is still going on

Reply 6

AngeryPenguin

Spineless Tories, wallpapering over the big problems as usual.

Original post by Freedom1488

Haha enjoying diversity now leftists? they don't want no part of your backward ideology

You know if the school was full of White kids you'd probably be protesting against the faaaaaaaar-right

Why are you blaming this on the left?

The Conservative Party, although they like to get your votes by pandering to your xenophobia, don't ever actually decrease immigration. Cheap labour is just too good for their and their mates' bank accounts. Boris (who for years has been a champion of the anti-"PC" crowd here) himself has vowed he will not decrease immigration - and after Brexit, guess where it'll be coming from?