I left teaching due to serious health issues, compounded by disgust at the blatant disregard for safeguarding and impartiality rules. The issue came to a focus when I was threatened with disciplinary action, for saying men and women are biologically different and highlighting how wrong it was for teachers to claim otherwise.
For years I’d been fighting the open indoctrination of left-liberal views in the classroom. No attempt is made by most teachers to show even a scintilla of even-handedness, with open competition to show who can be most ‘anti-Tory’ and ‘progressive’. Not to mention the blatantly absurd preaching of climate catastrophism.
I was happy to teach, fighting this, feeling that at least the environment wasn’t openly dangerous to pupils. But the Trans movement and its activist targeting of schools changed all that - assisted by a recent cadre of woke teachers, incapable of independent thought and hostile to free speech.
To be fair, I had many decent and professional colleagues. I remember warning our excellent Head when I left, how there was a scandal ongoing in schools which would break very soon.
It’s broken. A teacher in Sussex is on record, bullying two Year 8 pupils for disagreeing that a classmate could identify as a cat, simply by saying she is. The teacher claims they’re denying said Moggy’s identity!
She then describes one girl as ‘despicable’, for believing that her own birth sex and gender are equivalent - and tells her to leave the school. The exchange is a disgrace and this woman shouldn’t be allowed in a classroom again. Doubtless she won’t even face censure.
Those marvellous girls are models of what pupils should be. It’s no surprise to hear the fear in the teacher’s voice. She’s incapable of dealing with their quiet dignity, resorting to bullying and personal insults, including of their parents:
TEACHER BULLIES PUPIILS ON TRANS ISSUE
The most astounding aspect is the teacher’s simultaneous claim that someone can identify as a cat, but it’s ‘a fact’ that your birth sex and gender are unrelated - and no contrary opinion is allowed. Parents need to fight back. I know for a fact that openly dangerous and manipulative material is being presented as factual, with no discussion allowed. A line has been crossed.
So it’s good to see the uproar over this teacher being found out; in fact, such bullying is very common in schools. As is the dogmatic illiteracy of the teacher: ‘There IS three sexes…’ being a classic example.
I always knew that many pupils are like these wonderful girls, unwilling to be brainwashed and aware they have the right to speak freely. There is hope, which needs huge encouragement.
Many teachers will agree. They need to stand together on this and champion pupils. Ignore the Unions, who are the worst perpetrators and have no interest in pupil welfare - their entire concern is political activism.
I recently met my PE teacher for the 1st time in 33yrs. We chatted about many things but we laughed at how he used to organise the kids to clear the pitches of snow on Friday after school so we could have a chance of playing for the school on Saturday. He and his ilk put so much effort into teaching and extra curricula stuff. I can tell you are still passionate about the profession (fair play to you) but for me it's like all of the other public services these days (all of them), utterly self serving. Professions that constantly and unanimously drone on and on about how hard they work, how poorly paid they are and how dreadful their lot is are simply not to be believed (anyone want to know how hard it is to clean human shit of an sewage works inlet screen or hand excavate pipes in a road?). I suspect all good teachers are leaving or have left. Little hope for the institution of teaching until radical reform. You've lasered in on another example of why it's failing.
'Gender is not linked to the parts that you were born with, gender is about how you identify,' is a sinister splinter of insanity, dangerous and offensive and ludicrous all in one sticky gobbet. And that is the teacher. I cannot believe what has happened in the past few years. Hey, teacher! Are you fucking insane?
'If you don't like it you need to go to a different school'. If ever a teacher's retort deserved Mike Tyson's fist in the mouth, there it is. Thank god I have no school-age kids.