A dangerous obsession

Sir, – The SNP’s obsession with equality of outcome is resulting in declining academic standards, their hyper-liberal push to eliminate punishments in schools is fuelling chaos in the classroom, and their unbalanced fixation on well-being and children’s rights is tending to make kids delicate, self-centred and demanding.

But, at least we are now “world leaders” in putting up posters in classrooms to indoctrinate children into a radical ideology of sexuality and gender.

This is not about tackling bullying and promoting inclusion, it’s about indoctrination, plain and simple.

Civility and tolerance can be promoted without preaching that the teachings of the Catholic Church, for example, are outdated bigotry.

Wait, you might say, hasn’t the Catholic Church backed the proposals?

Did they have any choice?

The tacit offer is “do it or we shut down your schools”.

The insanity of teaching kids that they can choose whether they are a boy or a girl is already claiming casualties as young people are induced to develop gender identity disorders.

The insistence that all expressions of sexuality are equal has no grounding in evidence.

Monogamous heterosexual marriage as the context for sex correlates with the best outcomes for adults and kids.

Richard Lucas.

272 Bath Street, Glasgow.