Parents have lodged a formal complaint with the principal of a school in the U.K. regarding a lecture during which a teacher told students they would be “dealt with severely” if they object to being instructed about LGBT relationships.
FOX News The complaint comes after students secretly recorded their teacher at Stationers’ Crown Woods Academy in London as he berated anyone who would speak out against the LGBTQ curriculum, according to the London-based nonprofit Christian Legal Centre.
The impetus for the teacher’s February lecture was a complaint from a 14-year-old Muslim student who raised concerns about being shown a video that affirmed children coming out as gay, lesbian, or transgender, according to the complaint from the unidentified Christian parents.
The unidentified teacher, who suggested he identifies with the LGBTQ community said:
“Let me make this very clear: You don’t have a choice whether or not you learn about LGBT+ in this school,” the teacher said in the recording, which has gone viral on social media.
“You don’t have a choice,” the teacher continued. “It’s one of our values, our British values, and if you refuse to do it, that will be dealt with severely. “You do not have the authority or the ability to refuse to do it.”
And if you say something that’s derogatory or could hurt somebody else in this room, that is very serious, and it is as serious as if you were using racist language,” the teacher continued.
The teacher said that if any student disagrees with him, they “need to go home and have a conversation with your parents” about why their values are so at odds with “what Britain is.” He explained that parents can only remove students from sex education classes, but claimed the school’s LGBTQ instruction is not sex education, because it focuses on relationships.
In their complaint to the school, the Christian parents said the teacher’s comments were “indefensible” and that he “abused his position of trust in using his platform as a teacher to threaten and shame pupils, none of whom, apart from one student, made any comments about LGBT education.”
They also objected to the teacher’s comments regarding “British values,” pointing out that no statutory definition of the term exists and that “the school owes a statutory duty to ensure that the education it delivers respects the manner in which parents wish to raise their children in accordance with their own religious convictions,” according to the European Convention on Human Rights.
“We accept that we live in modern Britain, but it is highly upsetting to be told that our beliefs do not accord to British values,” the parents wrote, noting how their Christian beliefs adhere to the same sexual ethics regarding LGBTQ issues as the Muslim studentreportedly involved. “It is equally upsetting that my son was shamed in this manner despite not having made any negative comments about anyone in the LGBT community.”
Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital that the recording offers a rare “window into the world of a UK school classroom.”
“Here we have exposed at first hand the language and actions of a teacher promoting LGBT ideology,” Williams continued. “Where is ‘diversity’ and ‘tolerance’ here? We have only a monoculture which requires approval and promotion of the ‘Progress’ flag, or ‘Pride’ flag, or transgender flag. There is no choice or freedom to disagree.”
Williams added that her organization, which has assisted multiple Christian families in the U.K. who have objected to age-inappropriate LGBTQ instruction in primary schools, will continue to stand with the family in moving their complaint forward.
The school has also recently conducted LGBT-promoting events that included Pride flags and badges “as a means of showing allegiance to the LGBT cause,” according to the Christian Legal Centre, which is assisting the parents in their complaint.
Pupil Secretly Records Teacher Spouting A Radical ‘LGBTQ+’ Agenda At Stationers’ Crown Woods Academy.
“You don’t have a choice whether you learn about LGBTQ+ in this school” pic.twitter.com/HBQ1ZGjn3Y
— Turning Point UK 🇬🇧 (@TPointUK) April 1, 2023
Az gal says
I don’t know. I’d rather side with the gays than the Muslums.
sixlittlerabbits says
Megyn Kelly is a piece of work, but she does have good people on, such as this 14-year-old Irish girl who has the guts to stand up to the woke agenda there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvAcEm2v3c
BareNakedIslam says
WOW!
Syrian Keralite Christian and Hindu brother says
https://www.opindia.com/2023/04/the-kerala-story-32000-women-kerala-isis-radical-islam/
The film is based on the true stories of Hindu and Christian girls in Kerala who were first trapped into love jihad by Islamists in Kerala and later sent to Iraq and Syria to become ISIS terrorists.
Jack Rider says
There is no 3rd sex or gender called transgender. Sex or gender in the human species is like other species only binary: male or female. You cannot change your sex/gender because it is controlled by genetic markers. What the transgender phenomenon represents is a subset of homosexuality where the particular homosexual seeks to identify as the other sex in order to promote the fiction that his/her behavior is, for want of a better term, regular. The transgender individual is a homosexual who has not come to terms with his/her homosexuality and seeks to masquerade it within a conjectured imaginary identity that such individuals seek to force on society. In its fiction it is essentially anti-the opposite sex. Principally this manifests as anti-woman for the biologically male transgender. The aggressive and often violent insistence of forcing acceptance on non-transgenders reveals the underlying make aggression in the case of the biological male “trans-woman.” Taken to its mad conclusion it is a homosexual initiative to erase women in the case of biological male transgenders. Sexuality clearly has many varieties of expression, some healthy and some unhealthy. However, sex/gender is NOT a social construct nor is it a product of an individual’s self-creation or designation. Such is a delusion, no matter what political forces are put behind it.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Jo Jack when you write this in germany you will be charged and more than likely jailed but no worry 90% of the germans think the same as you but we cant say it out loud.
Jack Rider says
I appreciate this suggestion of agreement. The issue of the suppression of free speech, censorship and cancellation manifests throughout the previously free West. To employ a term from basketball, there is a full court press against traditional norms of free expression from universities to corporate boards to social media platforms. Those who are opposed to the onslaught of neo-marxist centrally controlled totalitarian world view MUST not lose heart nor remain silent.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Na ya the heart is there and nobody can say that im quiet (i even write here) and no one can say that i do nothing then i made the group the few. No Jack i was raised in your country and freedom of speach is one of the highest goods we have and i certainly wont let it be taken from me from anyone. Fight we will but the time has to be right.
Pinkney Roads says
1000% accurate…You will be cancelled, erased, destroyed and finally become a non-person because the fascists freaks are taking over. But in the end…Thank G-d, your post will live FOREVER!