05 March 2019

Parkfield School says No Outsiders WILL continue after Easter as parents deliver protest petition

Parkfield Community School has insisted its 'No Outsiders' programme will return after Easter - as angry parents delivered a protest petition.

The school has temporarily halted the LGBT lessons for the rest of this term, according to reports in the Daily Mail and Guardian.

But the Saltley school has confirmed to BirminghamLive that No Outsiders - a syllabus which promotes equality and supports LGBT - will return after Easter.

It says RE lessons have temporarily replaced No Outsiders until after the Easter break (Monday, April 29) and, according to school leaders, this was already determined last summer.

Last week it was reported that hundreds of parents had withdrawn their children from the Parkfield Road school in protest. [Birmingham Mail] Read more