Parents at Parkfield School say they’ll protest every Thursday until No Outsiders is cancelled
Protesting parents outside Parkfield Primary school in Birmingham have said that they protest every Thursday until the pro-LGBT+ equality lessons provided by the school are cancelled permanently.
Parents of children at the Parkfield Primary School in Birmingham have said that they will protest outside the school grounds every Thursday until equality lessons, called No Outsiders, dealing with LGBT+ issues are cancelled permanently.
The school is due to provide just five of its No Outsider lessons for its students over the course of the year.
Last week around 600 children were removed by their parents in protest to the planned lessons. The school has said that it will continue with the lessons next term.
A crowd of parents and their children gathered outside the school this morning from around 8:20 AM with at least three speakers present, including one from an American Christian organisation, who congratulated the parents on their protest. The protests have taken places for around four weeks.
There was also a large media presence and police presence at the demonstration.
The protest was filmed and streamed on Facebook live.
Parents at the school have suggested that the lessons are “not age appropriate” and that they infringe of their children’s belief as well as their own religious beliefs and suggesting that the lessons were a “safeguarding issue”.
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