School parents raise lesson anxieties

Nicola Laver  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Jun 2023
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School parents raise lesson anxieties

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Parents at a Church of England primary school in Blackburn have raised concerns after apparently finding out from Facebook that children were receiving LGBTQ teaching without parents being consulted.

Wensley Fold CofE Academy wrote on Facebook (in a now-deleted post) about its aim to achieve a Rainbow Flag Award, a national quality assurance framework focusing on LGBT inclusion and equality of gender identities. The school said all teaching would be ‘age appropriate’.

Many of the children at the school are Muslim. The local paper reported that parents wrote to the school and said: ‘We send our children to school for an education, not indoctrination.’

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