Scottish Union for Education – Newsletter No102 Themes: children’s rights and the UNCRC.

RT @wjlionheart: Excellent piece. When certain people and groups misuse 'rights' as a power grab and for coercive control

I have come to the conclusion that there is a dark triad within our current education system that is undermining not just education but society itself. The elements of this triad are the idea of hate crime, global citizenship education, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) Rights Respecting Schools Award scheme. We do not live in a one-dimensional authoritarian society, but it is hard for me not to see at least some semblance of the Maoist Great Leap Forward that aimed to organise children away from their parents. Kate Demming @SunriseDances

Glossary of terms: when you hear the word rights, read experts, and when you hear the acronym UNCRC, run for the hills @SunriseDances

We’ve written before about the problem with children’s rights, essentially raising the concern that what this means in practice is, in fact, expert rights and powers over parents. Additionally, the problem with children’s rights is that it is something of an oxymoron in terms of the classical idea of rights as freedoms. Not to beat about the bush, but children don’t have rights – and that’s a good thing. It was really the development of society, of wealth, of leisure time – and the ultimate separation of the world of adults and the world of children – that created what we call childhood. This took hundreds of years and took both a forward and backward step in the nineteenth century, when middle-class campaigners pushed for this separation all while children were working in factories from a very young age. Thankfully, and to some extent inevitably, society changed and increasingly created a protected space and time for children to grow and develop outwith the world and responsibilities of adulthood.

The Scottish government’s newly published Guidance on LGBT Inclusive Education (2024) shows how thoroughly some of its education policies are being dictated by LGBT activists says Dr Jenny Cunningham.

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Tragically, the process of labelling increasing numbers of children with therapeutic and medical categories appears to be turning the problems of everyday life and the difficulties of learning into an unresolvable issue that is likely to have serious implications for the current generation of children. Challenging this therapeutic culture is one of the tasks that SUE aims to tackle.

RT @SunriseDances: @ScotUnionEd is trying to get a grasp on children’s reading age in Scottish schools. If you are able can you please do…

RT @SunriseDances: Children are being fed a ‘rights’ diet from nursery wherein they are groomed to see themselves as individual consumer un…

Scottish Union for Education – Newsletter No101 Themes: declining expectations in primary schools, and the new gender ideology in the LGBT guidance for schools.

RT @SunriseDances: @ShalaTigre @ForWomenScot This is the letter a large group of Glasgow parents sent to Director of Ed Glasgow in Septembe…

RT @ScotPAG: More evidence that our kids are not being sufficiently safeguarded! @WRNScotland @prof_curiosity1 @ScotUnionEd @pittparents…

RT @CleverclogsNina: I have a piece in Unherd about the entirely wrong priorities within Scottish education. Pleased to give a shout out to…

RT @SunriseDances: Absolute racist policies. I see this in the education and arts as de rigueur these days. Categorising people on skin col…

RT @SunriseDances: @LeoKearse Outside of the utter missing of the mark on this one is part of a larger campaign- will use as as an excuse t…

RT @ScotPAG: We agree….get trans ideology out of schools & let children be children ! @RozMccall @TessWhite4NE @HeadWarriorTWM @WRNScot…

RT @SunriseDances: The United Nations Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is ironically very child-unfriendly. Scottish Government is in the proces…

Scottish Union for Education – Newsletter No100 Themes: Robert Burns and good literature, learning from the past #MagnusLinklater #RobertBurns #history

RT @timesscotland: Focusing on contemporary authors in Scotland’s curriculum limits children’s experience and fails to recognise the import…