[Smithy]

Not the article outing him before he even gets a chance to do it

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Not the article outing him before he even gets a chance to do it

I was thinking the same, announcing he's coming out on a future date is kind of making the future date a bit redundant isn't it?

[Ammi]

...in primary schools especially, I know that gay staff member are not always allowed to show wedding photographs etc..(...obviously it’s always an individual head teacher/academy principal decision...)...but with a heterosexual marriage, it isn’t something that would generally have to seek ‘approval’...whereas, I’ve known that to be the case frequently for gay staff members...

[Ammi]

...the article hasn’t outed him as such as he seems to have given the interview with them, so I presume that it’s all okayed by him to have published it...

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...in primary schools especially, I know that gay staff member are not always allowed to show wedding photographs etc..(...obviously it’s always an individual head teacher/academy principal decision...)...but with a heterosexual marriage, it isn’t something that would generally have to seek ‘approval’...whereas, I’ve known that to be the case frequently for gay staff members...

Is that legal though? I don't know about England but up 'ere, if a head teacher allowed heterosexual teachers to show family pictures but then said a married gay person had to ask permission first, they would be in (rather a lot of) trouble in terms of discrimination laws. I suppose if one felt particularly strongly about it they could put a blanket ban on teachers sharing personal photos/information but I'd have some pretty major concerns about that head teacher!

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Is that legal though? I don't know about England but up 'ere, if a head teacher allowed heterosexual teachers to show family pictures but then said a married gay person had to ask permission first, they would be in (rather a lot of) trouble in terms of discrimination laws. I suppose if one felt particularly strongly about it they could put a blanket ban on teachers sharing personal photos/information but I'd have some pretty major concerns about that head teacher!

Obviously allowing straight teachers to share pictures but not gay teachers is discrimination. Never came across teachers sharing personal pictures like that though anyway (both when I was going to school myself or my children going to school)

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Obviously allowing straight teachers to share pictures but not gay teachers is discrimination. Never came across teachers sharing personal pictures like that though anyway (both when I was going to school myself or my children going to school)

...it only generally happens that staff members show photographs to their class if they’ve just got married...

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...it only generally happens that staff members show photographs to their class if they’ve just got married...

Loads of teachers in my kids schools got married over their time there, I don't think they were ever showed pictures

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Loads of teachers in my kids schools got married over their time there, I don't they were ever showed pictures

...it tends to happen quite a lot in local schools here, specifically wedding and baby pics and bringing the baby in to meet their class...(...mainly in the younger classes, I have to say...Reception and Year 1...)...and with school/PTA run social functions, a staff member’s partner would often attend and help out as well, so that would spark questions from a child...’who are you’......

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Obviously allowing straight teachers to share pictures but not gay teachers is discrimination. Never came across teachers sharing personal pictures like that though anyway (both when I was going to school myself or my children going to school)

same, it's not particularly professional

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Is that legal though? I don't know about England but up 'ere, if a head teacher allowed heterosexual teachers to show family pictures but then said a married gay person had to ask permission first, they would be in (rather a lot of) trouble in terms of discrimination laws. I suppose if one felt particularly strongly about it they could put a blanket ban on teachers sharing personal photos/information but I'd have some pretty major concerns about that head teacher!

...I would think that it’s possibly not legal and could definitely be something which could be pursued as discrimination if a teacher chose to...but it’s still something that I’ve known to have happened on some occasions...not just in a situation of showing a wedding album to a class of children..?...but in how a homosexual partner is introduced at a school fair or other social school function...and being restricted/guided to ‘this is ‘name’..’.....as opposed to ‘this is my husband/wife’....