I do not think kids as young as 4 should be taught any of that. I believe that it is the parents right to teach sex education to their own children and not have it forced upon their children. People have different religious beliefs and personal beliefs that should be respected. Sex education should be left out of the schools.

All excellent points. The radical Islamics must be rolling on the floor in laughter, as we destroy ourselves from within. Human sexuality corncerns are a topic, but why this one has been mainstreamed and focuses on as yet unformed children begs the question, why? Thank you Incajackson for opening this debate.

Thank you very much everyone, for the productive conversation. I'm glad that we more or less agree about the timing of introducing such an educational programme (in this case, too early). The matters like the contents of the programme, how it should be delivered, let alone whether this kind of education should be taught at home rather than at school, will have to be discussed another time. What I would say is that when an incident like this happens, it gives radical ideologists an opportunity to turn the whole thing into a power struggle leaving innocent children caught up in it. I feel it is our responsibility to protect children from indoctrination and radicalisation.
Again, thanks ever so much for your views and opinions.
Warmest wishes

Any teaching of sex at that age should be done at home. Stop forcing sex education on our children. To me your trying to get them to be sexual. How can they not be when you teach it to them. Educational systems should stay out of the sex Ed department.

Not sure about gender identity, but didn't Monty Python cover orientation pretty well in "The Meaning of Life"? I figured the British had it all worked out since then.

It's a program based on the Equality Act 2010. [legislation.gov.uk]

That act does a lot of things. It defines "protected characteristics", which is the kind of thing people criticize as "political correctness". [legislation.gov.uk]

It also abolishes the rule that a husband must maintain his wife [legislation.gov.uk] . MGTOW guys would like that! (Just kidding - family law is going to be pretty complicated for sure)

What exactly is going on over there though? From what I read, the teacher openly identified as gay when he was hired - specifically - to run his program the 99% Muslim school (23 nationalities). His program teaches tolerance - racial and otherwise (e.g. national e.g. Israeli people e.g. non-Muslim Westerners). Am I wrong about that? It seems to be the case...

[theguardian.com]

This school is supposed to be one that inoculates students against radicalization, and learning to accept that people have a right to be gay, even though it's prohibited by Islam, is part of making people more moderate and a better fit for UK society.

Three inquiries have been held to investigate if schools in this area were breeding grounds for radicalism - but not the schools this guy has been involved with.

I can't find a copy of the actual curriculum online. That's what I'd need to react to your question.

If kids as young as four are taught, "in the UK today, some men marry women, some men marry men, some women marry women), and that's the end of it, well... that's a factually true statement.

You could add "some people think men should not marry men and women should not marry women."

I'm not a primary school educator. I can imagine kids might respond to that in different ways, and trained educators would know how to handle that better than me. I can also imagine four-year-old kids would get bored in two seconds and want to kick a ball around instead.

I say, Good for the Muslims.

Although I agree with the parents, it's for entirely different reasons. They are too young, and I think it's something they learn about through social discourse in society. While these Muslims will never be okay with homosexuality. They are completely homophobic and intolerant. Where's the LGBTQYZX 2.0 community outrage, where's Owen Jones and Corbyn? Of that's right, Islam is a brown race and you can't condem brown people. They sit silently wht gays in places like Iran are invited to test gravity from high places, with their hands tied behind their backs. And the fake media....nuff said.

Children are too young to be taught this, they soak everything up and believe it, if they are taught homosexuality etc is normal then they will experiment which could do more harm in the long term than anything. there are people in the wrong bodies but the number is minuscule compared to the majority. I disagree with this and support those parents who kept their kids out off school

Ok, one group of "victims" calling out the BS of other "victim" group. So which victim group should I listen to? I need to check their intersectionality score first and support whoever has a higer score, lol

Hi, and that program sounds like more political correctness to me...