Parents have taken their children out of school rather than allow them to face a week of homosexual propaganda.
The parents, many of them Muslims, may now be taken to court for truancy after governors at George Tomlinson Primary School in Waltham Forest, East London, decided to include material promoting homosexual partnerships. More than 30 children were kept away from books such as King and King, in which a prince ‘marries’ another prince and Tango Makes Three about homosexual penguins.
A Christian website reports spot fines, the imposition of parenting contracts and court action could follow any breach of rules which limit that absence to 19 days a year.
Pervez Latif, 41, whose children Saleh, ten, and Abdur-Rahim, nine, attend the school, said Christian and Muslim parents objected to ‘Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender History Month’.
‘We as parents did not receive any guidance that this was going to happen,’ he told reporterers. ‘There was just a newsletter mentioning the week and that certain themes would be taught.
‘I didn’t want my children to be learning about this. I wrote a letter to the chairman of the governors explaining that I would be taking my children out of school and he wrote back saying that there was no other option.
‘If I am faced with court action, then I will just explain that these are my views. It was also very difficult explaining to my nine- and ten-year-old boys why they were being removed from school.
‘I found it difficult to explain topics such as homosexual relationships at such a young age.’
Sarah Saeed, 40, took her eight-year-old daughter out of school during the week.
She said: ‘It is not an appropriate age for the children to be learning such matters. We have our own way of explaining things to them and they should not be subjected to this.
‘I was aware they were going to be learning about homosexual relationships through stories.
‘If the council takes action against me I will tell them that I told the school beforehand I would be taking my child away if they did not change their policy.
‘She has a 100 per cent attendance record otherwise. This is the only time and this is the only choice I had.’
Parents have the legal right to withdraw their children from religious education and sex education lessons – apart from science lessons in which biological reproduction forms part of the national curriculum.
A spokesman for Waltham Forest Council said: ‘As part of the borough’s policy of promoting tolerance in our schools, children are taught that everyone in our society is of equal value.
‘At George Tomlinson, parents were invited to meet with teachers and governors several weeks ago to discuss what work would be taking place throughout the national LGBT History Month and how this work would be delivered.
‘Regrettably, some parents chose to remove their children from school. The council does not condone any unauthorised absence from school and action has been taken.’ The children will be regarded as truants.
Norman Wells, director of the Family Education Trust, said: ‘It is a fundamental principle of education law that children must be educated in accordance with the wishes of their parents.
‘It is outrageous for a school or local authority to think it can ride roughshod over parents and impose lessons upon children that arouse such widespread concerns.
‘The only action that needs to be taken is to offer an apology to the parents concerned.’
Teachers at one secondary school in the arae have launched a homosexual version of Romeo and Juliet called Romeo and Julian.
READ: Deut 6:6-7; Prov 1:8; Isa 5:20; Luke 2:51; Eph 6:1-4; 1Tim 6:3-5.
PRAY: Thank God that there are parents who know that children are their responsibility to bring up, not the State’s to corrupt by the imposition of secularist views. May Christian parents be just as forthright as the Muslims when it happens in their children’s school. Pray for LEA church schools to resist homosexual propaganda in ‘relationships education’, pray for independent Christian schools to remain free of Government interference, and pray for home-schooling parents you know.
WRITE: to the Chair of Governors, Paul Dixon, George Tomlinson Primary School, Vernon Road, Leytonstone, London, E11 4QU. Telephone the Head, Ms Mandy Stewart, on: 020 8539 3577 or Email: georgetomlinson.school@sch.lbwf.gov.uk

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