{"id":13943,"date":"2019-02-26T16:40:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T16:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=13943"},"modified":"2019-03-01T08:55:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T08:55:31","slug":"gay-activist-up-for-1m-global-teacher-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/gay-activist-up-for-1m-global-teacher-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay activist up for \u00a31m Global Teacher Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Andrew<\/a>
Andrew Moffat, author of No Outsiders and assistant head at Parkfield is in line for the Global Teacher Prize<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Guardian reports<\/strong><\/a> a homosexual activist under fire for pushing gay propaganda in a school in Birmingham is up for a \u00a31m prize.<\/p>\n

Andrew Moffat has made the shortlist of ten for the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize.<\/p>\n

The prize is the brainchild of Indian businessman Sunny Varkey, who is based in the United Arab Emirates. It will be awarded in a ceremony in Dubai on Sunday 24th March 2019.<\/p>\n

The prize will be presented by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. HH is UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and also Ruler of Dubai.<\/p>\n

The members of the \u2018academy’ which will choose the winner are teachers and entrepreneurs and are listed on the Varkey Foundation website<\/a><\/strong>. The names of the committee who chose the ten finalists are rather more shadowy.<\/p>\n

Propaganda<\/h2>\n
\"Around<\/a>
Around 200 parents gathered in front of Parkfield school.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Andrew Moffat is infamous for his homosexual propaganda. He started off at Chilwell Croft Primary School in Birmingham. There he developed a homosexual activist tool called \u2018Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools’ or \u2018CHIPS’. He was forced to resign from Chilwell Croft in December 2013. Both Christian and Muslim parents complained they did not want their children \u2018learning it’s OK to be gay’.<\/p>\n

Undaunted, Moffat skipped across town to Parkfield Community School. The head teacher, or \u2018CEO’, one Hazel Pulley, says plainly she wanted him to try out his activism there.<\/p>\n

At Parkfield he developed \u2018No Outsiders’. It sounds inclusive, but what it amounts to is yet more homosexual propaganda. The programme encourages primary-age children to read campaigning books such as \u2018King and king’ and \u2018Two dads’. To raise the numbers of children deciding they are \u2018trapped in the wrong body’, Moffat also recommends \u2018My Princess Boy’.<\/p>\n

‘No Outsiders’ criticised<\/h2>\n

Local Birmingham MP Liam Byrne criticised ‘No Outsiders’ in a House of Commons Westminster Hall debate on sex and relationships education yesterday<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 He said:<\/p>\n

‘In light of the new guidance published today, I am afraid that \u201cNo Outsiders\u201d will have to be comprehensively overhauled and refreshed … I hope that today the Minister will guarantee that the three basic rights of parents\u2014the right to have their voice heard, the right to have their role respected and, crucially, their right of choice\u2014will be protected as the school reworks its teaching over the months ahead.’<\/p>\n

We must particularly commend the speeches by MPs Sammy Wilson, Chris Green, Fiona Bruce, and Jim Shannon.\u00a0 John Howell, Shaban Mahmood, Imran Hussain, Paul Scully, Faisal Rashid and Mohammad Yasin also made valuable points.\u00a0 A number of them are Muslim Labour MPs representing partly-Muslim constituencies, yet they spoke up for parental rights in the face of the ‘orthodoxy’ of propagandists like Moffat.<\/p>\n

Human Rights Act<\/h2>\n
\"Parkfield<\/a>
Parkfield Community School, where gay activist Andrew Moffat has been promoting No Outsiders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the Human Rights Act 1998, First Protocol, Article 2: Right to Education, the Act states:<\/p>\n

\u2018… In the exercise of any functions which it assumes in relation to education and to teaching, the State shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching is in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions.’<\/p>\n

Both \u2018CHIPS’ and \u2018No Outsiders’ are contrary to the parents’ deeply-held religious convictions.
\nHazel Pulley recognises that No Outsiders is contrary to Islam, Christianity and other faith positions. However, she says: \u2018it’s lovely that the children will hear both views.’ On the contrary, children will be confused by hearing views expressed by authority figures in school at odds with their parents’ religious and philosophical convictions.<\/p>\n

Ludicrous claim<\/h2>\n

Moffat makes a ludicrous claim on the Varkey Foundation website. He says his \u2018No Outsiders’ can be \u2018a tool to reduce the potential for radicalisation’. How a teaching resource promoting homosexuality could possibly reduce the impact of radical recruiters he does not say.<\/p>\n

In reality, 98% of the children at Parkfield Community School are Muslim. At best, \u2018No Outsiders’ will give their parents and older siblings the impression that the United Kingdom is decadent and depraved.<\/p>\n

Not really a teacher<\/h2>\n

Moreover, in stark contrast with the nine others shortlisted for the prize, Andrew Moffat is not really a teacher. He has all the certificates of course. However, he is actually a gay activist posing as a teacher. Moffat does not even teach a class. So much for ‘Achieving demonstrable student learning outcomes in the classroom,’ one of the prize criteria.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the prize application form<\/b><\/a> asks applicants to \u2018highlight some of the measurable outcomes that are the result of your teaching practices.’ It asks for \u2018specific examples of how your teaching has produced excellent results in terms of student outcomes.’ Moffat cannot point to anything specific.<\/p>\n

Another Global Teachers Prize criterion is : \u2018Achievements (or impact) in the community beyond the classroom that provide unique and distinguished models of excellence for the teaching profession and others.’<\/p>\n

Andrew Moffat has certainly made an impact. However, his highest achievement in the community around Chilwell Croft and Parkfield has been to unite parents against him and demand his resignation. Is \u2018excellence for the teaching profession’ illustrated by a refusal to meet parents alarmed and distressed by his teaching? If so, Moffat has it.<\/p>\n

Not replicable<\/h2>\n

Another criterion is \u2018Employing effective instructional practices that are replicable and scalable to influence the quality of education globally.’ \u2018No Outsiders’ was drawn up to advance homosexuality and transgenderism specifically in the UK. These are indeed \u2018protected characteristics’ under UK law. The project is not applicable to the majority of countries around the world which do not promote such practices in their laws.<\/p>\n

In particular, across the Middle and Far East and Africa, where over three quarters of the world’s population live, such practices are viewed as deviant and anathema. On top of that, as we saw above, Liam Byrne, the local MP, has criticised \u2018No Outsiders’ in Parliament and observed it does not strike any balance with parents human rights or even comply with the law.<\/p>\n

Challenges<\/h2>\n

Yet another criterion is \u2018Employing innovative instructional practices that address the particular challenges of the school, community or country and which have shown sufficient evidence to suggest they could be effective in addressing such challenges in a new way.’<\/p>\n

Deeply-help religious and philosophical beliefs that view homosexual practice and changing gender should be seen as a given. But let’s just suppose they may be viewed by someone who hates them as \u2018a challenge’. Then Moffat’s innovations have addressed them in the sense of trampling all over them contrary to human rights laws.
\nAs to \u2018effective’, there is little evidence that Moffat’s bulldozer approach is remotely \u2018effective’. He has alienated local opinion and stirred up religious antipathy.<\/p>\n

Global citizens<\/h2>\n

The fifth criterion is \u2018Helping children become global citizens through providing them with a values based education that equips them for a world where they will potentially live, work and socialise with people from many different nationalities, cultures and
\nreligions.’<\/p>\n

All \u2018No Outsiders’ does is advance the \u2018protected characteristics’ of homosexuality and transgenderism. Those are its values and they are highly UK-specific. Anything else, such as the UK’s \u2018protected characteristics’ of race and religion, disability and age, are dealt with by mature teachers in normal course anyway. But here they pad out the package. For a gay activist teacher, who has already shown \u2018form’ with his \u2018Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools’, the emphasis is clear.<\/p>\n

Recognition<\/h2>\n

The final criterion is \u2018Teacher recognition from governments, national teaching organisations, head-teachers, colleagues, members of the wider community or pupils.
\nAndrew Moffat has indeed received an MBE in the Her Majesty the Queen’s 2017 Birthday Honours List for \u2018services to Equality and Diversity in Education’.<\/p>\n

It is important to realise that such honours can be highly politicised in the UK. A committee of the elite sits and draws up the list. Some honours are awarded to distinguished sportsmen, musicians, entrepreneurs and those working selflessly in the community. Others are given to politicians and their helpers. But some are dished out to those viewed as advancing a politically correct agenda.<\/p>\n

Moffat’s award falls into the latter category. He will receive plaudits from teachers’ organisations for the same reason, and be appointed by partisan heads like Hazel Pully, CEO at his Parkfield, his current school.<\/p>\n

However, when it comes to the \u2018wider community’, support for this activist falls away. He record above he had to resign from his previous school, Chilwell Croft, while parents at Parkfield are now campaigning for him to leave there as well. <\/p>\n

The real teachers contesting the Global Teacher Prize<\/h2>\n

When you look at the descriptions of the other candidates<\/strong><\/a> for the prize, you begin to see how much Moffat is the real outsider.<\/p>\n

\"Peter<\/a>
Peter Tabichi: inspiring science teacher from Kenya.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For example, there is Peter Tabichi. The science teacher in rural Kenya gives away 80% of his monthly income to help the poor. He constantly leads his poorly-resourced school to victory in national science competitions.<\/p>\n

Debora Garofalo is another science teacher this time from S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. She has helped over 2,000 students learn electronics and robotics while turning junk into usable items.<\/p>\n

Martin Salvetti teaches in Buenos Aires, Argentina. While there he set up a weekend football club involving students and staff. Next, he secured funding from an arts programme organised by a group of charities. This supported a radio & cinema project and a band. In 2007, Salvetti and his students won a national competition for their work. They invested the prize in broadcasting equipment and their station now broadcasts around the clock.<\/p>\n

Stopped Child Labour<\/h2>\n

Hidekazu Shoto from Kyoto, Japan has created methods of teaching fluency in English without needing foreign travel or study abroad.<\/p>\n

In Gujarat, India, Swaroop Rawal teaches at Lavad Primary School also reaches children on the streets and in rural communities. Her pupils helped put a stop to child labour in the diamond polishing industry and facilitated children’s return to school.<\/p>\n

Vladimer Apkhazava from Georgia is another teacher who has raised funds for the children in his school. Eonomic pressures are high, with some pupils coming to school hungry. There are also problems of child labour in the region, which Vladimer has made it his mission to oppose. He won Georgia’s National Teacher Award in 2017.<\/p>\n

Not campaigning<\/h2>\n
\"Melissa<\/a>
Melissa Salguero has already won a Grammy award for her work as a music teacher.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yasodai Selvakumaran was born in Sri Lanka but teaches in Australia. She has won a string of awards for actual, real teaching.<\/p>\n

Daisy Mertens from the Netherlands is another real teacher. She works in a large community primary school. In contrast to Moffat, Daisy is actually teaching. Nor is rubbing parents up the worng way with blatant self-interested campaigning.<\/p>\n

Lastly, Melissa Salguero in New York’s Bronx, USA, did a real-life \u2018School of Rock’ – and other genres. Coming into a school with no music, no instruments and no resources, she raised the money and formed a band. In 2013, Melissa was named the Big Apple Awards & Lincoln Center Arts Teacher of the Year for her contribution.<\/p>\n

The UK competition<\/h2>\n

And what of the UK teachers Moffat beat to the short-list?<\/p>\n

Emma Russo teaches physics at South Hampstead High School. That’s an independent day school, part of the Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Not surprisingly, Miss Russo’s focus is on opportunities for girls in physics and engineering. Pushing girls towards science, technology, engineering and maths is fashionable today.<\/p>\n

Like New York’s Melissa, Jimmy Rotheram at Feversham Primary Academy in Bradford teaches music. Furthermore, he has developed an approach stressing the importance of music for developing brains. In contrast to Hampstead, Bradford Moor is financially impoverished. 60% of households there are unemployed or in low-skilled manual work.<\/p>\n

Both Emma Russo and Jimmy Rotheram are real teachers making innovations easily on a par with the the other nine shortlisted.\u00a0 Furthermore, they are not riding roughshod over parents’ convictions along the way.<\/p>\n

Embarrassment<\/h2>\n

If Moffat is chosen as the ‘Global Teacher’, all the talk will be about him and his gay indoctrination, not about excellence in teaching. The whole awards process will become a laughing stock. It will prove a severe embarrassment both to Sunny Varkey and to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed. A shameless homosexual activist at an awards ceremony in Dubai hosted by HH in the presence of other national leaders?<\/p>\n

It is clear no risk analysis was done about the embarrassment his presence on the list would cause the Foundation and His Highness.<\/p>\n

It is not beyond the imagination that a prize \u2018academy’ could be politically-correct enough to splash \u00a3100k a year for ten years at the Moffat to spread his poison around the community. All over the world, in Africa, in the Far East, in Muslim countries, the message will go out: \u2018If you aren’t a gay activist, don’t bother applying for the Global Teacher Prize.’<\/p>\n

Here is our previous report:\u00a0 Parents protest against No Outsiders SexEd<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

And here is the Hansard report of yesterday’s Westminster Hall debate on sex education<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 See how many of our elected representatives hat the idea of parents being responsible for their children’s education.<\/p>\n

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