The National FGM Centre - a partnership between children's charity Barnardo's and the Local Government Association - wants to see female genital mutilation eradicated by 2030.
It has called for primary schools to start teaching pupils about FGM when the new relationships and health education curriculum is introduced next year. "By teaching primary school pupils about FGM, we are empowering the next generation to speak up about the issue."Everyone, regardless of their community, gender or profession must be part of this conversation, so FGM becomes less of a hidden crime."The National FGM Centre has produced guidance for primary school teachers about how to introduce the subject and how to engage with parents and support them in discussion with their children.
I think these subjects would get more acceptance if parents actually knew what was getting taught, how much details covered and at what age exactly.
You can take the person out of the third world but cannot take the third world out of the person.
Read the article, then read it again . . . not once does the article actually state which sections of the community actually practices this form of child abuse? 🤷
No they shouldn’t let them be children utter utter garbage
How any adult or parent can wilfully bind or restrain an infant or child to hack off all or part of their genitalia with a razor blade because of tradition is beyond torture, poor surgery and scar tissue cause agony during sex and childbirth - and death
I think they should be aware it’s barbaric & illegal & it should be targeted at the African community too as that’s where it occurs. Only a man would think cutting off a Clit has any moral value , it’s disgusting .
The joys of multiculturalism,tell me again how better off we are with mass immigration.
No
Step tooo far
Let kids be kids man why do they have to know all this awfull shit that happens man it's bad enough knowing this crap as adult kids need be protected not forced to know about it all man
Naa you’re alright
Qué tratamiento tan denigrante reciben las niñas y adolescentes en ciertos países africanos o alrededor del mundo.
Yes they should but our government needs to stop this from being performed in the uk because it is happening hear
Why not just genital mutilation? Why in this day and age are boys being mutilated?
Primary school children ‘should learn about GM’ I fixed your typo for you.
Equal rights for women! Infant girls should have the RIGHT to circumcision at birth without consent, the same as boy babies
Male circumcision is literally embedded within western culture, if this is not part of 'the conversation' it is a depressing case of woods for trees. A barbaric practice that kills over 200 boys every year in the most modern US clinics. 20,000 sensitive nerve endings cut away.
No they shouldn’t
So what is the little girl supposed to do? Go home and explain to her barbaric parents that she will not allow this mutilation? She will have no say against these sick people.
Why must they? They will learn about it when they're older as we all did.
They could mix it in with the gay sexual education.
Why?
Sorry I don’t think primary school kids need to learn about this on top of learning about LGBT. Seriously when are kids going to be allowed to be kids without them being overloading them with crap!! It’s barbaric religious that think FGM is right. But it’s not it’s so wrong.
Hasn't the UK become such a great place, overcrowded, reduction in values, imported issues, everyone responsible must be so proud.
Er..... No
No they absolutely should not. My children thank goodness are grown. There is a time and a place to learn of the barbaric practices of other cultures, primary school is not that time or place.
not practised in some parts of usa
I didn't know what FGM was until I was in my 60's.
Oh, the 'don't teach them about same-sex relationships' crowd will just love that. (Some of that crowd probably support FGM.)
Primary school children should learn about uncontrolled economic immigration and all of the ills that it brings to the UK
No they shouldn’t. It’s an issue for a tiny subset of migrants, and risks stigmatising that subset for life.
No need to learn this when we were kids
Children should certainly learn where people can and can't touch them. But the government needs to step up prosecutions if it wants to eliminate FGM.
Primary school pupils are not ready for this nor other 'brainwashing' exercises time to make parents more accountable for certain 'facts of modern life'
No they shouldn’t. Let them be children.
No they shouldn't
Is this another one of those reasons we should be thankful for multiculturalism, we now have to teach our kids that “some sick in the head mummy & daddies cut their children’s private parts up because they’re very very naughty”, is some artist compiling the first draft right now
Perhaps this ‘education’ needs to be led by Imams in every Mosque. Children have little say in whether it happens to them or not, it’s the parents who need to be re-programmed? FGM
Maybe add the violation of boys through circumcision too?
It’s the parents who want to mutilate their little girls that need the education on FGM
Yeah but not in our country, it’s a black immigrant thing. It’s what they do in some countries. What’s it got to do with us.
Hope circumcision is also included don't want our kids to be fed only one political opinion. (Reduced sexual sensitivity happens to both) Why is the BBC so Biased (Can no longer accept your description as Fair & Balanced because your NOT) All religion is EVIL to the Core 👀open
If the law did its job this abhorrent practice would die out. Go after the parents/families and deport or lock up anyone whose child has been mutilated. This isn't 'cultural enrichment', it's child abuse.
Import the third world, become the third world.
Absolutely not my children are in primary school and I definitely don't want them to know about FGM it's barbaric.
Our children should not have to learn about such things a FGM, kick the barbarians out of our civilised lands
Who says another deep thinker who has too much time on their hands leave them kids alone
All a consequence of tolerance to religious delusion.
This is a disgusting thing to do to a child. I note though, the report does not provide any guidance to how big the problem is in this country. Perhaps it’s not as prolific as the report suggests.
It’s a good point, but answer me this. Why now? Why did we not have this barbarism 25 years ago? Like serious knife crime and acid attacks ? Explain to me please
Yes they should but these children are the victims, not the perpetrators. How are the perpetrators, who are adults within specific cultures and communities, being targeted?
Excellent, how about also discussing the mutilation of baby boys through circumcision when the baby has no right to refuse. Stop it all.
Yay multiculturalism
with everything being push onto the very young. no wonder the mental health referrals going through the roof..
Of course they shouldn’t
What about male genital mutilation - circumcision? Why is female circumcision any different? More BBC bias/inequality! We have to pay for this crap!
in 21'st century UK we're having to resort to this-backward cultures need updating and prepared for the modern world. unbelievable!!
before we scare the crap out of kids, why can they not be allowed to be kids. None of this do you feel more like a girl or a boy. Let them play and have fun. Jesus Christ we are going to have a nation of snowflakes melting over anything
We are working hard for this to be part of primary school. 99% girls are mutilated during prime school years
How about 10 years inside for anyone doing this horrendous act to any child. If parents refuse to name who did it lock them up until they do. There’s no place in our society for FGM or its practitioners or is this acceptable in the name of diversity?
Why, because Government are going to introduce it soon to appease Islam?
'By teaching primary school pupils about FGM, we are empowering the next generation to speak up about the issue'.......We are speaking up about it now! nobody listens!!
They should learn to read, write, spell and play games. Primary school children are not emotionally developed enough to deal with such issues including sexual diversity.
No they shouldn't. Why would you want to mentally scar the innocent minds of children because of the few. If the courts and police acted then their wouldn't be a problem.
Why? This only affects a small minority of children. What benefit would a child that is not from that culture, gain from learning about this? Why are we teaching our children about everywhere around the world, but we do not teach them about this country and its glorious history?
WIll they learn about male genital mutilation too?
FFS. We are struggling to teach our kids the 3Rs successfully but keep dreaming up ideas to spend even LESS time teaching them the vital building blocks of education.
What about circumcision? Is this not a form of mutilation as well?
No they shouldn't. The poor girls whom are vulnerable should be monitored very carefully. But this sort of disgusting and abhorrent behaviour is too graphic for primary school children who should not be targeted because of the minority
The BBC promoting Cultural Relativism at it's most toxic.
Islam? Our children should learn how oppressive and divisive that ideology is as a whole, and the horrible archaic practices it promotes. Don't just tell them about the act, explain where it comes from.
Is this a new way of learning the alphabet LGBTTQQIAAP FGM. ?
BBC News trying to normalise this brutal Islamic practice by using the term 'external genitalia'. What the hell does 'external' mean, ? Every part of the body belongs to the body! Would you describe the ears or nose as 'external'?
Why?
Because this affects such a large percentage of the school population...
OK! son what did teach you today? It were great mum, 1st lesson was about LGBT, then 2nd lesson was about FGM, and the next was all about someone who offers 72 virgins when you die . So no English , Maths , Woodwork, PE then? Its 2019 UK not 1999 silly..fuckedupcountry
After reading the article (not just the headline 😉), I have to agree...
A bit too much for primary school children, maybe more appropriate in secondary school.
😠 No!
Is that before or after the lessons about poofery?
On the other front... you were right...
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