Member

Does anyone believe that it is an acceptable state of affairs that parents acting in good faith on serious concerns about their own children’s education should be met with such bureaucratic inertia and incompetence? The consequences are corrosive. It allows important legal provisions, not least the duty of political impartiality, to be ignored or sidelined. This is particularly acute when it comes to the teaching of contested topics such as gender identity, when parents raise legitimate concerns that activists’ agendas are supplanting balanced education with potentially harmful impacts on the development of children. This failure of enforcement creates a vacuum that allows activist groups to misuse the state school system to advance their own agendas. At the same time, it allows suspicion among parents to fester without definitive resolution. This surely undermines trust in schools.