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Submitted | first-name | support | top-concern | message |
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2026-05-24 14:15:16 +02:00 | Sanet | No I do not | All of the above | Our education system should Not accept donations form foreign bodies. Do not sell our young minds to these colonialist inhumane ideologies. |
2026-05-24 14:15:16 +02:00 | Sanet | No I do not | All of the above | Our education system should Not accept donations form foreign bodies. Do not sell our young minds to these colonialist inhumane ideologies. |
2026-05-24 01:06:19 +02:00 | Carike | No I do not | Undermining of parental rights and family values | |
2026-05-24 00:47:12 +02:00 | Carike | No I do not | All of the above | |
2026-05-23 12:08:30 +02:00 | Liesl-Luaan | No I do not | All of the above | Stop pushing minority ideals on our children! |
2026-05-23 08:54:56 +02:00 | Ruan | No I do not | All of the above | |
2026-05-21 14:42:31 +02:00 | daniel | No I do not | All of the above | |
2026-05-21 13:18:50 +02:00 | Craig | No I do not | Undermining of religious/spiritual values | I am opposed to the ECE Toolkit because I do not believe that gender identity teaching belongs in any school, and especially not in pre-primary or primary schools. Children should be allowed to be children. Schools should focus on education, discipline, safety, literacy, numeracy, life skills, and age-appropriate learning. They should not be used to teach children contested ideas about gender identity. This is particularly concerning for very young children in pre-primary and primary school. Children at that age are still developing emotionally, mentally, and socially. They should not be exposed to confusing or sensitive identity-based teaching that many parents believe should be dealt with at home. I also object because this breaches my religious beliefs. Many families have sincere religious convictions about sex, gender, identity, and family. A public school should not promote teachings that conflict with those beliefs or place children in a position where they are taught ideas that contradict what their parents believe. Parents, not the state or schools, should decide how and when their children are taught about these sensitive issues. Any programme dealing with gender identity should not be introduced without full transparency, parental consent, and meaningful public participation. For these reasons, I oppose the ECE Toolkit being introduced in schools, particularly in pre-primary and primary schools. |
2026-05-21 10:59:15 +02:00 | Roger | No I do not | All of the above | I oppose the ECE Toolkit because it introduces gender identity concepts into early childhood classrooms, at an age when children should be focused on literacy, numeracy, and social development. Parents across South Africa have warned that this undermines the family’s role in teaching traditional male and female identities and risks confusing young children. Beyond age‑appropriateness, parents object to the lack of consultation, the foreign funding influence (R40 million from Belgium’s VVOB), and the pilot rollout without transparency in KwaZulu‑Natal and other provinces. They also raise safety concerns about bathroom access policies and question why South African education is being shaped by external ideological agendas rather than local cultural values. Globally, the numbers show how disproportionate this policy emphasis is. Reliable surveys (e.g., Williams Institute, UCLA 2022) estimate that transgender people make up about 0.5–0.6% of the world’s population. Yet this tiny minority is driving sweeping changes in education policy worldwide, while other minority groups with far larger representation — such as people with severe disabilities (~15% of the global population, WHO), or indigenous peoples (~6% globally, UN) — are not afforded the same world‑changing influence over curricula. Parents ask: why is this one issue allowed to run roughshod over the rest of society’s norms, especially in strongly Christian communities where traditional male/female roles are taught? Evidence of turmoil is clear. In the UK, the Tavistock gender clinic was shut down in 2022 after a government review found children were referred for interventions without adequate safeguards. In the US, backlash from Christian parents led to laws like Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education Act” (2022), restricting early‑grade gender teaching after reports of confusion and conflict in schools. These cases show how policies prioritizing gender ideology over parental rights fracture communities, ero |
2026-05-21 02:14:19 +02:00 | Audrey | No I do not | Undermining of parental rights and family values |