Scottish schools are cracking down on LGBT+ teacher training

TIE (Time for Inclusive Education) have launched a crowd-funded appeal to send Scottish school teachers on training courses that will train them on how to tackle homophobia within their schools.

Since the campaign’s launch in June 2015, TIE campaigners have asked for more inclusive lGBT+ education to be common across all schools in Scotland.

It was just last month that the Scottish Parliament rejected a call to include LGBTI+ education in Scottish schools.

According to The Gay UK, “figures show that 1 in 4 LGBT+ youth in Scotland’s schools have attempted suicide and over half are deliberately and regularly self harming as a result of bullying. Despite this, a cross party parliamentary committee recently closed a petition for LGBT+ education in schools that had been submitted by TIE.”

Co-founder of TIE, Jordan Daly, has said: “As a result of budget cuts, most schools do not have the funding available to send their teachers on the LGBT+ inclusive training programmes that are on offer. The government’s current strategy to tackle LGBT-phobia within schools does not go far enough, and that is why we are now directly stepping in to raise as much money as we can to ensure that teachers are being properly trained. We are appealing to anyone who believes in equality to back this important initiative.”

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