First of all I’m grateful for gab.ai user @JuliaM for bringing this story to my attention. It is an absolute corker of a story that shows both the arrogance and political bias of those who manage Britain’s schools, but also the power of angry parents voting with their feet and protesting.

According to a report published in the regional newspaper for the London area, The London Evening Standard, a school in South Norwood, Heaver Farm Primary, decided that it would be a good idea to hold an ‘LGBT Pride’ event at the school and have the children participate. The school was intending to have a ‘Pride Parade’ in the school playground but a revolt by parents forced the school to hold the event in private. Personally I think that the school should not have held this event at all as it is something that in my view is entirely age inappropriate. Children who are aged 11 and under should not be forced to deal with adult sexuality issues, in fact it is my belief that to compel children to take part in a Pride event in this manner is bordering on child abuse. Here’s part of the Evening Standard article and as is usual policy for this blog the original quoted text is in italics whereas my comments are in plain text.

The Evening Standard said:

A primary school was forced to hold an event celebrating Pride in private after a group of parents threatened to protest at a playground parade.

Heavers Farm Primary School had invited families by letter to watch the “Proud to be Me!” parade on campus.

It said it wanted parents join in celebrating “the rainbow of things that make them and their family special”.

This planned event is utterly disgusting and I speak as a person who is relatively liberal about what consenting adults do in their bedrooms. There is no place for this sort of event in a primary school.

However, the event was axed at the last minute on Friday after the headteacher received warnings a group of parents planned to hold a protest.

This event should have been completely killed off when it was first suggested by the lefty teachers but it is good to know that the event was at least curtailed by parental protest or the threat of protest.

Instead, the school held an assembly and low-key parade in the morning, with parents invited into classrooms in the afternoon to learn about their work on diversity and inclusion.

If nothing else the fact that the school still went ahead with their gay brainwashing event in a more truncated form and pushed political ‘diversity and inclusion’ re-education onto parents, shows that this is a school and a senior management team that is hopelessly wedded to left wing policies.

The school is doubling down on the pro gay propaganda and the headteacher, Susan Papas, whined to the Standard:

“Some parents have taken exception to this. They feel the school is shoving LGBT issues down the kids’ throats. This takes us back decades.”

Well it’s pretty plain from where I’m sitting that the school is shoving LGBT issues down the kids throats. I also fail to see why or how this could put ‘us’ back decades merely because parents don’t want their children exposed to pro gay propaganda. Susan Papas added: ‘“We thought we would celebrate Pride month so those children from LGBT families would feel included and to show the kids that children come from different families. “ So in effect, every child in the school has to kow tow to the tiny minority of families who have a parent of a minority sexuality, no wonder the majority of parents seem to be concerned about this. I really don’t buy the excuse from Susan Papas that this was a minority of parents complaining as if this was really the case then the event would have gone on ahead as planned and any tiny protest neutralised. I get the impression that Susan Papas and her pro-gay propaganda policy is much more unpopular than she is trying to convince people it is.

I found it interesting to note that those parents who were in favour were left wing liberals and one in particular who was quoted in the Standard piece, appears to be a public sector / charitable trust fund parasite by the name of Erica Chamberlain who describes herself as a ‘community development worker’. I wonder if she does anything that the rest of us would recognise as useful work? Probably not would be my guess. By the way I’ve met lots of these ‘community development workers’ over the years and very few of them have done anything that could be seen to benefit my community, most of them are merely taxpayer funded lefty ideologues wedded to stuff like gay rights and open borders.

The parents who were angry at this propaganda exercise seem to have little alternative but to either protest or take their children out of school for this day in order avoid their kids being exposed to this Pride bullshit. Those parents who thought that their local Labour Party MP Steve Reed would help them out and stand up for parental rights, found that they were hopelessly disappointed as he actually turned up for the truncated Pride event and praised it and also praised the school for putting it on. It’s obvious that those parents who quite rightly objected to this Pride propaganda would never be given a fair hearing by Steve Reed MP.

It matters little to me why the parents objected to this appalling example of Left wing pro-gay propaganda, some may have had religious objections and some may have had objections on the grounds that this was age inappropriate. However, for whatever reason the parents objected, they were damn right to do so. The parents who objected to this Pride event are to my mind in the right and like them I would remove my child from any similar event should the lefty teachers try to put something like this on at his school. This case illustrates why in Britain we need more parent power and not less. Our children are too precious and too vulnerable to coercion to allow them to be left completely in the control of what is becoming an increasingly unhinged teaching ‘profession’.