By Edmund Adamus and Edmund Matyjaszek.
“A rift has opened up…between family and the school; the educational pact today has been broken and thus the educational alliance between society and the family is in crisis,” writes Pope Francis in paragraph 84 of Amoris Laetitia. His words sum up recent disturbing headlines concerning education across the UK.
Education and the welfare of children, particularly in regard to the increasingly controversial RSE (Relationships & Sex Education) – has once again become the focus of attention. The current statutory guidance on this new subject was due a three-yearly review since its implementation in September 2020, but in response to a report submitted to the Prime Minister by Miriam Cates MP, that review has been brought forward and will have an independent panel further investigate the serious questions of safeguarding failures exposed by the excellent research by the think tank Policy Exchange. This report is a must-read for all parents, carers, educationalists and clergy. Apart from the shocking evidence that many schools routinely misapply equality law in favour of gender ideology, what is deeply disturbing, but unsurprising, is the ubiquitous anti-parent attitude that prevails in many schools.
