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The initiative will be officially launched next month at the start of LGBT History Month an initiative to encourage teaching about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual issues.
The lesson plans, spread across the curriculum, will be offered to all schools, which can choose whether or not to make use of them.
But critics last night called the initiative a poor use of public money which could distract from the teaching of core subjects.
Among the suggestions are:
Maths teaching statistics through census findings about the number of homosexuals in the population, and using gay characters in scenarios for maths problems;
Design and technology encouraging pupils to make symbols linked to the gay rights movement;
Science studying animal species where the male takes a leading role in raising young, such as emperor penguins and sea horses, and staging class discussions on different family structures, including same-sex parents;
Geography examining the transformation of San Franciscos Castro district in the 1960s from a working-class Irish area to the worlds first gay neighbourhood, and considering why homosexuals move from the countryside to cities;
Languages using gay characters in role play scenarios, and teaching LGBT vocabulary
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/uk-schools-introduce-gay-math-geography-and-science
This is in the U.K. Could've sworn they were talking about San Francisco.
Coming soon to the U.S.?