Woke alert!

[mickd1961]

My eldest granddaughter school have announced that all fellow infants and juniors have to wear trousers or shorts and polo shirts from next September!

So desperate are these new head teachers to tick off their Woke credentials that they want all the kids to become “Them” rather than allow them to be little boys and girls.

They want all the children to look and dress the same to “avoid discrimination”.

She’s 7, years old, she’s got Asian friends, she doesn’t even think about colour or gay or anything else at the moment thankfully.

It’s really got up the noses of a lot of parents and upset a lot of the girls.

When will this madness end!?

[boingy]

We’ve gone from minority groups not being noticed to minority groups being idolised. Full swing of the pendulum every time never a balanced approach.

[boingy]

In Parliament yesterday women were saying how great is was to see almost half of the MP’s being women and a much better representation. They were celebrating this, yet in schools they are playing down being female. What a mixed up society this is. 7 years old is way too soon to even talk about this kind of thing. You can see why things are so messed up because it’s being put into kids heads to think about. It’s tantamount to abuse.

[Leicesterbaggie]

I am not surprised that many parents oppose this idiotic policy. We are in serious danger of bringing up a confused generation of children regarding their identities. I”m just glad that I lived and taught during an era where common sense prevailed. I honestly couldn’t have coped in today’s system of education, especially being a PE teacher. Can somebody inform me what is wrong with treating boys as boys and girls as girls and that there is a difference.

[Omegstrat6]

I am not surprised that many parents oppose this idiotic policy. We are in serious danger of bringing up a confused generation of children regarding their identities. I”m just glad that I lived and taught during an era where common sense prevailed. I honestly couldn’t have coped in today’s system of education, especially being a PE teacher. Can somebody inform me what is wrong with treating boys as boys and girls as girls and that there is a difference.

Exactly! Anyone with the tiniest bit of acknowledge whether as a parent or educator should know that girls and boys not only differ physically but reach development stages differently (girls tending to reach their "milestones" earlier). As such, both need to be treated differently in order to better support them, especially so in their important formative younger years. To attempt to clump them together and treat them the same for fear of discrimination is therefore madness. "One size fits all" does not work when applied to just all boys or all girls as each has individual needs so certainly won't work for all children being lumped together.

The "equal but different" argument was used by Southern states to justify racist Jim Crow laws but this was around skin colour whereas the difference between the ***es is obviously far more significant. I don't believe that girls or boys should be forced into "traditional" gender roles and that if boys want to play with dolls or toy ******** and girls with toy cars or dinosaurs for example then let them -but equally don't force them to do this.

[Omegstrat6]

And what exactly is so wrong with "toy k I t ch en" that it needs to be censored? 🤔😁