A Step Too Far?

[youngmafbog]

It is for me. Far too young.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/04/17/teach-toddlers-transgender-issues-national-union-teachers-say/

[ummmm]

I think questions should be honestly answered when the child starts asking them and from a neutral view point and in an age appropriate way.

[Old_Geezer]

Sounds like they're off their rocker. Who is telling toddlers that if they have a gender identity issue that their lives are unimportant anyway ? Where is this need to confuse kids before they need to consider the issues ?

[youngmafbog]

It should be the parents duty, especially at this young age. That is if they actually ask the question.

I would not want my toddler indoctrinated by someone else's views, which is inevitably what will happen.

[ummmm]

YMB -You have to remember that some parents would not teach acceptance of others lifestyles.

[ummmm]

And anyway...it's pointless to teach a toddler. Who remembers being a toddler?

[douglas9401]

Some might say that teachers should be getting sprogs to read, write and count before moving on to more exotic fare.

[ummmm]

It wouldn't be teaching them about sex just that not everyone is the same.

[emmie]

two is far too young, why do they have to keep on meddling with childrens development, growing up.

[sp1814]

youngmafbog

The headline is:

A) misleading
B) clickbait

This is the key passage:

She tabled an amendment to the Children and Social Work Bill which would see primary and secondary school children be given age-appropriate sex and relationship education.

I think it's a great idea. As mentioned in the article, children today have access (via their smartphones) to a world of misinformtion on the Internet. Not only does this need to be countered, but a framework needs to be put in place to protect them from forming inappropriate relationships and to recognise how their digital relationships can negatively affect their real lives.

This is not about advocating sex ed classes for two year olds, as the report erroneously suggests.

[Old_Geezer]

You're right: these two year olds and their smart phones eh ... ought to be a law.

[Mamyalynne]

Teaching children to be accepting of differences should be a natural progression as they grow and as stated above answering questions when they arise in a way the child can comprehend.

[jackthehat]

Ahhhh......the good old 'extrapolation-principle'.
Take a story with a vague reference to age i.e. 'nursery-school' and work backwards to about the earliest age children usually start attending and use that to outrage your readers.

If only parents could be trusted to answer their children's questions honestly, openly and non-judgementally there would be no need for this sort of educational programme.

[sp1814]

Exactly JTH.

Nail on the head.

[vetuste_ennemi]

The headline is not misleading (as has been suggested).

The article makes direct quotes from the speeches at the conference:

//But teachers passed a motion which called on members to "campaign to ensure a comprehensive age-appropriate content including promotion of LGBT+ matters for all schools from nursery throughout all phases of state education".

Annette Pryce, a member of the NUT executive committee and teacher in Buckinghamshire, added that the “right wing, religious lobby” had prevented ministers from proposing a more “inclusive” agenda for sex education classes to include teaching about LGBT+ issues.//

Note the word "promotion". Also note that the speaker must believe that there is at least some content that IS appropriate to nursery school, otherwise she wouldn't have mention nursery education in the first place.

Also note the slur against parents with conservative religious views who may have moral concerns about LGBT+ issues being "promoted" at school. Are these concerns illegitimate?

[BilSuth]

These are just toddlers. Plenty of time for them to be indoctrinated with all the p.c. nonsense about "other" lifestyles.

[RobNorth]

Another example of the arrogance of modern man (person)
We seemed to have decided a few decades ago that two million years of
accumulated wisdom and experience in the fields of child care/education and many others, counts for nothing, and we would just pull some new methods out of a hat, because we're clever and know it all, like 15 year olds.....

[vetuste_ennemi]

If you think these people in NUT and their fellow neo-Marxist sectarians will be content to subvert the influence of parents and to start the indoctrination of very young children only at the nursery school level, Rob, think again.

Watch this:

[vetuste_ennemi]

My atheism doesn't allow me the Biblical concept of sin, but I know evil when I see it.