Should Schools Be Forced To Promote Gay Relationships In Sex Education Lessons?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/11517177/Promote-gay-relationships-as-positive-in-school-teachers-say.html

[jackthehat]

A positive portrayal does not 'promotion' make.....unless your mindset prefers to see it that way.

[mushroom25]

"force", ie threat of retribution in the event of non-compliance is surely not the way to proceed in this matter, is it?

[Gromit]

The teachers did not say 'promote'.

And they did not say in sex education lessons.

You and the Telegraph are making this up.

[Gromit]

It is the teachers themselves who are suggesting a positive portrayal, so how are the teachers being 'forced' to do it?

[mikey4444]

I am with everybody else here.

To quote the article, the NUT is asking for a positive portrayal of gay people. That is not the same as promoting. If the next generation of children grow up into adults who are not bigoted against other people who happen to be different, how can that be wrong ?

[Old_Geezer]

No. One does no promote abnormal sexual preferences. Acceptance & tolerance is good to teach, as with some errors of attraction such as homosexuality, no one is being abused, and all are willing participants; but one never promotes mental error. In any case I'm unsure one can promote it in any real sense. One either has the affliction active or not.

[Gromit]

OG

Mental error. Affliction. Errors of attraction.

Perhaps you should sit in on one of these classes.

[dannyk13]

It is not the job of schools to promote any sort of relationship

[mikey4444]

Oh dear OG ! Abnormal sexual preferences ? I thought that was sex with goats.

Affliction ?

[ToraToraTora]

"positive portrayal" - that's what advertisers do for Mars Bars etc. Yes it is promotion and in should be prevented. That is what section 28 was for, to stop this sort of thing. Why does any sort of seual tendency need "positive portrayal" - gawd help us this lot won't be happy until they have a full set of straight/gay/tansgender/cross dressing kids. Teachers are supposed to concentrate on education F\F\S not tinkering about with sexuality.

[sp1814]

It's that word again - 'promote'.

It's too woolly and ill-defined within the context of education, and we've encountered problems when it was used in Clause 28.

Should it be mandatory for schools to educate children about both gay and straight relationships within the framework of sex education lessons?

Yes, I can't see any negatives associated with that proposal.

Schools are not going to be forced to promote gay relationships.

That's merely twisting words to scare parents, because in the minds of many, the word 'promotion' is akin to 'encouragement'.

[sp1814]

TTT

So what should sex ed classes include?

[sp1814]

dannyk13

If schools are not to promote any kind of relationship, what should be included in sex ed classes?

And what you do see as 'promote'?

[jackthehat]

Positive portrayal is the opposite of negative portrayal.....nothing more.
How can telling young people that being Gay is not a bad thing/abomination/affliction/mental error be a bad thing?
Teachers are not being urged to advise the children to give it a go.

[Peter Pedant]

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I think AOG has a point - why should we have lesbianism forced down our throats ?
erm if we dont want it that is

[dannyk13]

There is a difference between education and promotion.

[ToraToraTora]

they should do sex education, not promotion. In maths they don't promote trig over algebra do they? they just educate.

[jim360]

In what crazy world is there any possible comparison between trig v. algebra and hetero-/homosexuality?