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Submitted | first-name | support | top-concern | message |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026-07-22 10:33:53 +02:00 | Arran | No I do not | Undermining of parental rights and family values | I am writing to express my vehement and unequivocal opposition to the implementation of the “ECE Toolkit” (Gender-Responsive Pedagogy for Early Childhood Education) in South African pre-primary and primary schools, as it represents an unacceptable state overreach that severely undermines parental rights and foundational family values. The family is the bedrock of our society, and parents possess the inherent, primary right and responsibility to guide the moral, spiritual, and social upbringing of their children. By training educators to introduce highly contested concepts, such as gender fluidity, pronoun selection, and subjective gender identity, to impressionable children between the ages of 0 and 9 without explicit parental knowledge or consent, the Department of Basic Education is dangerously overstepping its boundaries and breaking the vital trust between parents and early learning centers. Furthermore, imposing this singular, imported ideological worldview treats traditional family structures as problems to be solved, risking profound psychological confusion in young children and actively sowing division by framing foundational family structure as "harmful stereotypes." It is entirely unacceptable that a program carrying such massive social implications was rolled out without broad, transparent, and meaningful public consultation from the outset. Therefore, I demand the immediate suspension of the ECE Toolkit across all provinces and a steadfast commitment from the DBE to respect the separation of state and family by keeping early childhood classrooms as places of age-appropriate learning rather than laboratories for social engineering of unproven gender ideology. |
2026-07-22 08:16:23 +02:00 | Ronel | No I do not | Undermining of religious/spiritual values | Parental rights, family and spiritual values will be totally ignored. These are the mainstays of a healthy society. |
2026-07-18 21:36:29 +02:00 | Clive | No I do not | All of the above | |
2026-07-18 19:32:45 +02:00 | Carol | No I do not | All of the above | Undermining of parental rights and family values. Causing confusion in children |
2026-07-15 15:51:22 +02:00 | Lee | No I do not | All of the above | Educate our children, give them the ability to contribute to the future. Gender confusion training has no place in the education realm and should be left to the parents to consider. |