Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
"Academies: Scrap your Section 28 Rule" (Petition)
This petition In my inbox this morning:
Under the freedom granted to Academies and the lack of a national curriculum on Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) several schools have retained or reintroduced their own version of Section 28. We have found multiple schools still using SRE policies which ban the promotion of homosexuality. Stirling work by the British Humanists Association has found that fourty four schools still have such outdated homophobic policy in place. The full details are available here.
Sign the petition here.
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by 24g2s8fz5ir06 on
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Thanks - signed....
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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It would be nice to place blind faith in the website of of the British Humanist Association (BHA). But for the time being I want some more hard information.
This doesn't affect the principle which is crystal clear: No reintroduction of Section 28 under cover of School Policies.
But the information from the BHA is not so clear. Even the number of schools currently applying such policies seems uncertain. The BHA tells us that:
"It would be wrong to assume or suggest any of the schools concerned are guilty of malice or homophobia. Instead, it seems more likely that these are cases of ignorance/oversight on the part of the schools as to the fact that law and policy has moved on. In fact a number of the schools have made clear to us that they take these issues very seriously and two of them have been commended by Stonewall as School Champions, meaning they are strong on tackling homophobic bullying."
As a former school governor for many years, I was curious how a policy document could contain serious errors through an "oversight" . The Governing Body I chaired had policies drafted by the headteacher and her senior Management Team. Governors read drafts and discussed them - occasionally with strong disagreements.
The BHA mentions a suggestion that some Academy schools bought off-the-peg policies written by an external agency which delivered the same documents to a number of schools - with some of the same outdated material. This seems unprofessional and unbelievable.
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