Pride event at London school axed after parents threaten protest
 

A primary school was forced to hold an event celebrating Pride in private after a group of parents threatened to protest at a playground parade.

Heavers Farm Primary School had invited families by letter to watch the “Proud to be Me!” parade on campus.

It said it wanted parents join in celebrating “the rainbow of things that make them and their family special”.

However, the event was axed at the last minute on Friday after the headteacher received warnings a group of parents planned to hold a protest.

“Some parents have taken exception to this. They feel the school is shoving LGBT issues down the kids’ throats. This takes us back decades.” Susan Papas, headteacher of the South Norwood school, told the Standard: “We thought we would celebrate Pride month so those children from LGBT families would feel included and to show the kids that children come from different families.

“But some parents aren’t happy with the term LGBT and don’t want their children knowing about these terms or what they mean.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/educ...-a3876841.html

do you agree this should not be part of primary schools?

Good on em'

A primary school was forced to hold an event celebrating Pride in private after a group of parents threatened to protest at a playground parade.

Heavers Farm Primary School had invited families by letter to watch the “Proud to be Me!” parade on campus.

It said it wanted parents join in celebrating “the rainbow of things that make them and their family special”.

However, the event was axed at the last minute on Friday after the headteacher received warnings a group of parents planned to hold a protest.

“Some parents have taken exception to this. They feel the school is shoving LGBT issues down the kids’ throats. This takes us back decades.” Susan Papas, headteacher of the South Norwood school, told the Standard: “We thought we would celebrate Pride month so those children from LGBT families would feel included and to show the kids that children come from different families.

“But some parents aren’t happy with the term LGBT and don’t want their children knowing about these terms or what they mean.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/educ...-a3876841.html

do you agree this should not be part of primary schools?[/QUOTE]

Agree? The very idea that it was scheduled in a Primary School is enraging.

All the school staff who were complicit in this outrage should be sacked.

All that this extreme B.S. is going to succeed in achieving is to gradually alienate once sympathetic people and undermine the progress which has been made over the past 60 years or so.

it’s actually so sad that in today’s society, there are still parents who don’t want their kids to know that LGBT exists

well that is patently not true. they just want to keep the sexuality of adults away from primary school kids - plenty time after puberty to learn about that

:shrug:

I can think of many much sadder things.

I'd have taken my child to that.

It wasn't even really about sexuality just about being proud to be yourself.

i understand your point but i just don’t know if i like the idea of purposefully keeping them unaware of LGBT, especially because there are kids who have parents of the same sex

for adults

how many primary school kids go to a pride event?

a fraction

probably the same that have dads in jail but they wont do a thing about crims and jail

You don’t suddenly develop a sexuality when you become an adult, the whole point of pride is about acceptance, it’s not shoving anything in anyone’s faces

Find it so funny that the people who say sexuality shouldn’t be forced down children’s throats are probably the ones who say their kids are such “a ladies man” or “he’ll be fighting them off when he’s older the hypocrisy is hilarious

!!

Close this thread!

I didnt know about LGBTQ until i started Secondary school. This is apalling

A primary school was forced to hold an event celebrating Pride in private after a group of parents threatened to protest at a playground parade.

Heavers Farm Primary School had invited families by letter to watch the “Proud to be Me!” parade on campus.

It said it wanted parents join in celebrating “the rainbow of things that make them and their family special”.

However, the event was axed at the last minute on Friday after the headteacher received warnings a group of parents planned to hold a protest.

“Some parents have taken exception to this. They feel the school is shoving LGBT issues down the kids’ throats. This takes us back decades.” Susan Papas, headteacher of the South Norwood school, told the Standard: “We thought we would celebrate Pride month so those children from LGBT families would feel included and to show the kids that children come from different families.

“But some parents aren’t happy with the term LGBT and don’t want their children knowing about these terms or what they mean.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/educ...-a3876841.html

do you agree this should not be part of primary schools?[/QUOTE]

The guy wearing the tee shirt with gay fu**ing pride plastered all over it doesn’t make it seem very age appropriate. The whole thing is being shoved down parents’ and childrens’ throats too soon so hardly any surprise people react the way they do. Usual pushy left.

That is a stock photo of one of many thousands of pride marches

That's a bad thing that you didnt know about it until then though

Exactly :clap1:

How does it help matters by having the F word on a t-shirt .

This whole bells and loud whistles approach is just scaring people away :bored: .

I don't know about you, but I'd much rather primary school age kids were taught what being gay is rather than passively using it as an insult or an excuse to bully other kids, often being taught no better by their parents (source: someone who went to a primary school)

I don't find it a coincidence that this thread springs up the same day as a "favourite branch of Christianity?" thread, either

The best way to make people feel included? Include them. Parades aren't necessary for that.

It's LGBT. Only weirdo activists use the word "Queer".

That picture is obviously just for illustrative purposes, no way would he be included in the school's parade wearing that. The school seems to have had the best intentions, from the article is seems like the event was to be "self pride" first, with LGBT issues being tied into it, rather than the focus.

Yes, because that photo of a Pride parade, in which no children are visible, and an American flag is, was clearly taken at an event at a London primary school

I swear some people don't actually think before they react and jump to conclusions on here sometimes

This is blatantly homophobic.

We are exposed to heteronormative relationships from birth.

Thankfully people like you are in the minority on that one

https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-p...a.jpg?w968h681

Is the picture used in the original article, did LT change it just to get a more inflammatory response :conf::conf:

lol do you identify as "queer"?

Well it was a bad example photo to use .

Even if you disagree with it ,it's still the parents choice to allow or not allow their kids to be apart of it .

I thought LGBT parades were for adults anyway ?!