A school in Wales is being criticised and investigated for promoting evangelical Christianity to its pupils.
The National Secular Society (NSS) has expressed discomfort over Daniel Owen, the headteacher at Llanidloes High School in Powys, for using school resources to teach children the way of the Lord.
Mr. Owen is accused of directing pupils to the evangelistic ‘Alpha’ Christian course.
‘Promoting Creationism’
The BBC reports that the school is also ‘promoting creationism’ with wall displays showing marine life and the solar system beneath lines from the Bible such as:
Psa 111:2 The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Teaching creationism as a scientific theory is banned in England, but not prohibited in schools in Wales. The NSS is calling for a ban on teaching creationism in schools in Wales, claiming ‘it undermines teaching about evidence-based theories such as evolution’, as if the theory of creation had no evidence to support it, or that ‘evolution’ was watertight.
Secularists worried by Bible
Photographs of school planners given to pupils reveal an advice page titled “Help in Time of Need,” featuring sections on suicide, sex, and abuse.
The NSS are worried the page contains references Bible verses, including guidance for children to “flee from sexual immorality,” avoid “the evil desires of youth,” and cautioning that looking at women “lustfully” equates to having “committed adultery” in their heart.
The Bible says,
2 Timothy 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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Teach gender ideologies not Christian values?
The criticism of the headteacher at Llanidloes High School raises the question: Why is it permissible to teach gender ideologies in schools but not Christian values?
Across the UK, schools have made gender ideologies the order of the day under the ‘Comprehensive Sex Education scheme’.
Children are being exposed to age-inappropriate content and taught questionable values, yet the teaching of Christian virtue is being criticised.
That is far from being ‘inclusive’ or ‘representative of diverse perspectives’. It favours a godless secularist ideology, which is, lest we forget, a pseudo-religious viewpoint.
The Bible says,
Proverbs 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Children centre of woke agenda
Children have increasingly become the focal point of gender ideologies in education. This shift is evident in practices ranging from teachers discussing the existence of more than two genders to encouraging children to explore ‘diverse identities’. Currently, in the UK’s general election campaigning, it is unclear whether the Labour Party will, if it forms the next government, carry through with the Conservatives’ proposed ban on gender ideology. It’s education spokeswoman, Bridget Phillipson, said the guidance would be reviewed.
She has also said that ‘Trans women’ with male genitalia could use female lavatories under Labour’s plans to make gender change easier.
Additionally, the emergence of ‘drag queen story hour’ has sparked debate among parents and educators. One commentator asked: Why are children always at the centre of this agenda? Why do ‘drag queens’ never want to read stories to the elderly?
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The rise of homeschooling in the UK
Meanwhile, many parents are reported to have lost confidence in their children’s schools. A growing number of parents are choosing homeschooling as a way to regain oversight of what their children are taught. However, Labour appear to want a register of home-schooled children, the first step to interfering in what they are taught.
Homeschooling in the UK has seen a notable increase in recent years, according to a Savanta poll for CARE.
Many parents are citing concerns over the school curriculum as a primary reason for this choice, particularly concerning topics around gender and sexuality. The Savanta poll also suggests 4 in 10 parents have not been consulted on the content of lessons, despite this being a legal requirement.
Key findings of the poll
The Savanta Poll revealed that 41% of parents reported their schools use third-party organizations to deliver part of their RSE curriculum, affecting approximately 3.5 million children out of 8 million students in England.
Additionally, 44% of parents who requested to view the RSE materials taught to their children had their requests denied. Concerns about the RSE content are prevalent, with 46% of parents expressing some form of apprehension about what their children are being taught.
Furthermore, 52% of parents are unsure if their child would feel free from judegment when expressing views in RSE classes that differ from what is being taught. Despite statutory requirements, 36% of parents reported never being consulted on the content of their child’s RSE curriculum, with an additional 4% unsure if they had been consulted.
A BBC investigation also found the number of children moving to home education in the UK is at its highest level since the pandemic.
Councils received almost 50,000 notifications in the last academic year from families wanting to take their children out of school. This does not include children already being home educated.
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Homeschooling increase in Scotland
In Scotland, there has been a significant rise in the number of parents choosing to homeschool their children due to concerns about falling educational standards and increasing classroom violence.
Data from Scottish councils indicates that over 2,200 children are now receiving education at home, representing a 40% increase in the last two years. This figure has more than doubled over the past seven years.
While homeschooling has become more common throughout the UK since the pandemic, critics suggest that the more pronounced rise in Scotland reflects a growing dissatisfaction with the state education system.
The new figures, from 30 of Scotland’s 32 councils, show that the number of pupils being homeschooled stood at 2,222 in the current academic year, up from 1,880 in 2022-23 and 1,591 in 2021-22.
‘It is of course the right of any family to choose to homeschool their child,” said Liam Kerr, the education spokesman for the Scottish Tories.’ But the rise in numbers here hardly reflects well on the SNP’s running of our schooling system.
‘We know in recent years that violence has increased, that standards have fallen, and that teaching career prospects are increasingly bleak.’
Parental concerns over LGBT ideologies
Parents’ concerns about losing influence over their children’s upbringing due to ‘LGBT’ ideologies in schools are also contributing to the homeschooling trend. For instance, a study by Policy Exchange found that a majority of parents are uncomfortable with the extent of gender ideology being taught in schools, fearing it undermines their values and parental authority.
Moreover, cases where schools have introduced controversial content without consulting parents have further fuelled these concerns. Many parents have voiced concerns about age-inappropriate content which they say infringes on their right to guide their children’s moral and ethical development.
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This should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the decline into believing the evolution story. The government (Education Secretary Mr Gove) put through regulations that banned the teaching of Genesis creation over 6 days, in 2014. CV ahead of the field, put out a leaflet raising awareness of this that year.
It is no surprise therefore that a decent school has been reported for teaching Genesis creation because the regulations ban the teaching of this as being factual.
You can ridicule Genesis creation, you can deride it, you can call it a ‘story’ (which is what the schools do, I have witnessed this) but you cannot teach it as factual. The Conservatives banned that in 2014.
The only organisations that raised any response was CV and AnswersInGenesis. I am not aware of any other Christian group that did.
I have campaigned about this for years; everything we are fighting against today stems from the UK church general rejection of 6 days of creation (excepting always those good churches that have correctly held to this). We are in the mess we are in now because of not keeping the foundations.
There is Special revelation (God’s Word) and there is General revelation (everything else including science). Special is always above general. The UK church has generally put the Special below the General – see where that gets you?
Make sure you and your church leader accept and understand the truth of 6 day creation; everything else is a fraud, a fiction, a fantasy, a hoax and a story.