Thursday, 11 March 2010
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A
serious situation and trend is developing in the UK
and
probably throughout the EU and I guess (in
days of globalisation) could happen globally.
Basically,
step-by-step the government want to take away
the way
we bring up our children and take control themselves.
Here is
the report:
Please write to Peers now to Prevent State intrusion into Parents’ rights over Sex Education and Home Education.
As the Children, Schools and Families Bill moves
to the House of Lords for consideration, now is the time to act.
With so many controversial proposals in the Bill
there is the real possibility that Parliamentary time will run out before
they can be agreed and the Bill passed.
We need to lobby on the dangers of the Bill and pray time will run out
for the Bill.
Use
our Information
& Action Pack and theexample letters at the back of the pack
to write to Peers, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, or
use our bullet points to compose your own.
The
Children, Schools and Families Bill will allow the State to begin a subtle
programme of indoctrination of the children in England. Sex and
relationships education (SRE) is to be made compulsory for children in
England from the age of 5 unless parents withdraw them.
Parents
will no longer be able to withdraw their children once they turn 15, unless
they live in Wales.
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Pupils in England will have to “learn
the nature of civil partnership and the importance of strong and stable
relationships” instead of learning about the central importance of marriage.
Principles are established by the Bill
that will tie the hands of religious schools and force them to cover topics
such as access to abortion and homosexuality, even though they will be allowed
some freedom as to the way in which the topics are taught.
Instead of Governors setting the
content of the curriculum, it will be outlined by the Minister for Education
and his advisers. The role of governing bodies will be reduced to
determining the school’s approach to the subjects covered in SRE in
consultation with parents.
Schools will be required to “promote
equality” (that is, to promote the ideas that homosexual practice is equal to
heterosexual practice). They will also be required to expose children to
a range of viewpoints on sex and relationships in addition to the one that
their ethos supports.
Parents who educate their children at
home will be subjected to a new licensing system that will allow the State to
monitor what children are taught and that will be enforced with the threat of
fines.
Parents will have to register their
children every year (or every time they move to a new area) and they must
provide an accurate statement of what they intend to teach their children.
If they are registered, the local
authority will visit them to check that the education is suitable.
Parents and children can refuse to allow a child to be seen on his or her own,
but such a refusal can lead to revocation of registration.
The local authority can refuse to place
them on the register for certain reasons. If a child is not on the
register, or their registration has been revoked, the parents may be served
with a School Attendance Order (SAO).
If the parents are not successful in
their attempts to appeal or revoke the SAO, they will have to send the child to
school or pay a fine. This undermines parents’ rights to have their
children educated in accordance with their “religious and philosophical
convictions”.
It also turns on its head the principle
that parents are responsible for the education of their children—not the State.
In combination, the proposals represent
an attempt to pressurise all parents to send their children to mainstream
schools and to impose on them the Government’s own pluralist sexual ethics when
they get there.
Andrea Minichiello Williams
Christian Concern for our Nation
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