For people who furiously deny they’re in the child grooming business, the “rainbow” creepers slithering into our schools sure act exactly like groomers.
Groomers, after all, seek to break down children’s moral resistance by exposing them to sexualised material, in order to convince them it’s “normal”. They also thrive in secrecy.
In Australia, programs like “Safe Schools” have been repeatedly linked with grossly inappropriate, sexualised material. These have included links to sites selling sex toys and fetish gear. Programs have purported to teach girls as young as 11 how to “safely” send nude photos of themselves over the internet. Others have involved children in writing “sex personals”. In NZ, the “Mates and Dates” school program pushes a comprehensively sexualised curriculum.
Teachers have been repeatedly caught out literally grooming children for sex.
Surprise, surprise, yet another cadre of groomers have been caught out – this time, in the UK.
An organisation that provides sex education lessons in schools has apologised for posting links on its website to “regrettable” material about fetishes, sex toys and introductory guides to “quick, rough, anonymous sex”.
One could be forgiven for suspecting that their only regret is getting caught.
The School of Sexuality Education has worked with about 300 primary and secondary schools to host age-appropriate workshops on sex and relationships. It is in a legal dispute with Clare Page, a mother from Deptford in south London.
Page did the one thing the groomers are absolutely terrified of: she looked for herself at what her children are being taught. Specifically, she checked out the School of Sexuality Education’s website. Where the very first thing she would have seen was a wall of Play Doh vaginas. Colourful vagina imagery is splashed repeatedly across the website.
And much worse.
When Page looked online at the organisation’s team of “facilitators”, she found website links that showed some of the people hosting the lessons also had commercial interests in the sex industry, such as selling sex toys and promoting pornography. One of the teachers described themselves as a “master fetish trainer”.
As groomers will, they tried their best to keep it all “our little secret”.
Page asked her daughter’s school, Haberdashers’ Hatcham College in New Cross, southeast London, who had taught a sex education lesson to the 15-year-old and what it entailed. When she was turned down, she appealed to the Information Commissioner’s Office, which also rejected her request, saying it was commercially sensitive and a copyright matter because the material belonged to an external organisation.
At a tribunal appealing against that decision, Dolly Padalia, the chief executive of the School of Sexuality Education (SSE), defended the decision to keep the identities of people teaching children about sex secret from parents.
Because nobody who ever told a child to keep secrets from their parents was ever up to anything nefarious…
Padalia said making SSE materials publicly available would be “fatal” to the business.
Because parents would realise what they’re up to?
The organisation has removed facilitator biographies from its website.
The Times
What are they so determined to keep secret from parents’ eyes?