Posted on 07/24/2006 8:31:32 AM PDT by Stoat
Children as young as three should be taught about same-sex relationships in a bid to stamp out homophobia in schools, it was claimed yesterday.
The National Union of Teachers, the country's largest teaching union, sparked outrage by demanding that nursery staff help to educate children about gay families.
It claims it is too late to wait until youngsters arrive at primary school to learn about the subject because some three-year-olds are already using homophobic language.
But critics branded the NUT as "achingly politically correct" and said the proposals were akin to "brain-washing" vulnerable youngsters.
The proposal was made yesterday when the NUT published its response to the Department for Education and Skills' Early Years Foundation Stage consultation document.
This government report sets out the "early learning goals" which youngsters should be achieving in the first few years of their lives.
But the NUT claims that it needs to go further and early years teachers should be given "the skills and tools to challenge racism, sexism and homophobia" and abusive language.
The NUT document says: "In the case of homophobia, the use of the word 'gay' is prevalent in primary schools and young boys who are perceived to not conform to masculine stereotypes are at risk of bullying, isolation and social exclusion.
"It is too late to wait until primary school to challenge prejudice and intolerant abusive language.
"The EYFS curriculum needs to alert early years teachers to their responsibilities to challenge gender stereotypes and to challenge language that is negative or prejudiced."
It adds: "It is particularly important to begin to make three to five-year-olds aware of the range of families that exist in the UK today; families with one mum, one mum and dad, two mums, two dads, grandparents, adoptive parents, guardians etc.
"There will be parents who are gay or lesbian who will want to be reassured that their children will be safe in the setting.
"Many gay parents do not 'come out' to their nursery schools because they fear their children will be bullied as a result of the sexual orientation of their parents.
"Now that civil partnerships are legal, nursery settings need to use the curriculum to educate children about all types of families and to promote respect and understanding."
But Nick Seaton, of the Campaign for Real Education, branded the demands as "ridiculous".
He said: "I very much doubt that three-year-olds will be able to grasp the implications of these things anyway.
"Apart from that, even if they do, it seems completely wrong for the state education system to try and brainwash youngsters in this way.
"It is achingly politically correct and it's a sad reflection on the direction state education is taking, with the emphasis on teaching politically correct values, rather than worthwhile subjects."
Hugh McKinney, of the National Family Campaign, added: "To attach any kind of value judgement to the views and statements of three-year-olds is simply nonsense.
"Nobody condones homophobic language but to try and teach impressionable, immature youngsters about issues such as this is simply wrong for their stage of development.
"The state system should not be the basis for such teaching until children are older and more able to form their own judgements."
A spokeswoman for the NUT last night defended educating very young children about gay relationships.
She said: "It's never too early to encourage respect. It's about valuing every child and the relationship they live in and ensuring all children show respect to that relationship as well."
About the anti-man agenda in what the MSM calls "mainstream culture"...I've heard Alex Jones say that the UN has called for an 80% reduction in the global population. Was that a kook conspiracy theory, or does this anti-man/pro-feminist/pro-gay agenda prove what he said to be fact? I know he's been way off in left field on some issues, but there have been some issues (such as how hate crime laws will be used to end freedom of speech) where he has been on the mark.
So, basically, good luck teaching her about the H-mo's tender feelings when she still thinks smearing peanut butter on the tv is acceptable behavior (and despite my numerous explanations to her that it isn't.)
I thopught we did that already.
You know, the game where the kid has put a square object into a square hole, a round object into a round hole, etc.
Homosexuals are people who try to put square objects into round holes and vice-versa.
HA Ping.
Targeting Children, Part 1: How the gay movement intends to capture the next generation
Targeting Children, Part 2: How the homosexual movement uses public schools as instruments of change
Targeting Children, Part 3: Activists encouraging experimentation
Targeting Children, Part 4: Access to children: homosexuality and molestation
Insane!
Thanks for the ping.
The REST of the AGENDA:
While most homosexual activist groups publicly denounce NAMBLA and its agenda, the pedophile group is still allowed to march in "gay" pride parades in New York, San Francisco and Boston under its own NAMBLA banner.
Furthermore, some suggest that public disavowal of NAMBLA by homosexual groups is a smokescreen. David Thorstad, a founding member of NAMBLA and former president of New York’s Gay Activists Alliance, says homosexual activists have supressed pedophilia in order "to sanitize the image of homosexuality to facilitate its entrance into the social mainstream."
Children as young as three should be taught about same-sex relationships in a bid to stamp out homophobia in schools, it was claimed yesterday.
The National Union of Teachers, the country's largest teaching union, sparked outrage by demanding that nursery staff help to educate children about gay families.
It claims it is too late to wait until youngsters arrive at primary school to learn about the subject because some three-year-olds are already using homophobic language.
"Too late"? LOL - the lies and propaganda propping up the homosexual delusion will never "sell" the absurd no matter how "early" they try selling such delusion. Children innately know that homosexual activity is disordered. Regardless what shade of lipstick the activists attempt to paint on the pigs lips it remains a pig. This is just more evidence of the "failure" that homosexual agenda activists are always assured to confront and realize -at the end of the day reality ALWAYS wins over delusion...
The natural laws can not be denied -resistance is futile!
N.U.T.BY NAME N.U.T.s BY NATURE :-)
3 year olds should be listening to Mum and Dad and not union nuts.
A cute little five year old girl asked her father what the two spiders were doing on the patio.
The father said, "They're mating".
The little girl asked what kind of spider was the one on the top.
The father said, "A Daddly Long Legs".
The little girl then asked what kind of spider was the one on the bottom.
The father said, "A Daddly Long Legs".
The little girl went over and smashed them both with her shoe saying, "I am not going to have any of that sicko crappy stuff going on in my backyard!"
Pre-school is the only school so far.Wife and I spend a lot of time playing school with her.She loves it.We make a game of it and she relishes it.Do not know what goes on in pre school,but she has a very close relative who she knows has her lady friend sleep in the bed with her close relative when her husband was deployed.She is not a secret keeper!
If you wait until they're three, you've lost them to the influence of the breeders and the church.
"Nuts!"
BG McAuliffe at Bastogne ain't obscure!
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The shirt-lifting, turd-burgling, little-boy-buggaring brigades are all still pushing the same lines of crap, I see.
It is if you ain't a WWII buff or older than Britney Spears......
Well, I am a history buff and I think I am old enough to be Britney Spears's father ;-)
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