If somebody from 2005 teleported 20 years into the future, they would beg to go back home.
Sure, there are lots more cool toys to play with now, and the televisions are mega huge, but it seems our basic grasp of reality disappeared somewhere along the way. It's kinda like that Ryan George series of videos where the time-traveling reporter keeps begging to go back home to the 90s.
What got me thinking about this trend is this article explaining how the NAHT--which used to be called the National Association of Head Teachers until it was rebranded--can't figure out what to do now that the UK Supreme Court ruled that boys and girls are different.
The fact that NAHT has been 'thrown into turmoil' by the Supreme Court judgment says everything about what teaching unions have become.
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The NAHT is the union representing about 50,000 Head Teachers in the UK, and it is deeply into DEI, although they scramble the letters into EDI for some reason.
🚨 BREAKING: Transgender women should not be legally defined as women, the Supreme Court has ruled.
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 16, 2025
Read the latest here ⬇️https://t.co/eRSbvcHtxS pic.twitter.com/tRfzbISxUs
The NAHT is deeply confused by the ruling that boys are boys and girls are girls, and are asking for guidance from the government on how to deal with this newfangled idea regarding sexual dimorphism. They find it so confusing.
The Government must provide schools with “non-divisive and sensitive” guidance following the Supreme Court’s ruling on the legal definition of a woman, a school leaders’ union has said.
Schools must remain “safe, inclusive spaces” for all staff, children and families, delegates at the annual conference of the NAHT heard.
Last month, the UK’s highest court ruled the terms “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act “refer to a biological woman and biological sex”.
This means transgender women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) can be excluded from single-sex spaces if “proportionate”.
School leaders are being put in a “very difficult” position as they try to understand what the ruling means for staff and pupils, the conference heard.
Delegates voted to call on the NAHT executive to write to the Education Secretary to request “urgent support and information” for schools.
Our time traveler from the recent past might suggest that they check what they were doing about 15 minutes ago, before the world went mad and our elite decided that people with penises could magically become young girls and ogle others in the locker room.
It seemed to work pretty well, and despite all the hype about kids committing suicide unless they could share locker rooms with the opposite sex there was no trail of bodies suggesting that this is actually true. In fact, youth suicide rates have skyrocketed over the past 20 years, suggesting that all these mental health interventions in schools have been disastrous.
She said: “The Supreme Court judgment has had an immediate impact and implications for some of our members, thrown them into turmoil as they are faced with impossible decisions about everyday practices.
“It has already been divisive.”
Ms Hewitt-Clarkson added: “This motion is asking Government for clarity to help us lead our way through this whilst ensuring everyone’s dignity and safety remain intact.
If the Head Teachers are in "turmoil," that isn't because the Court's ruling was ambiguous in the least. Nor are the rules for setting aside single-sex spaces in schools, which have remained constant for years:
Section 4 of The School Premises (England) Regulations 2012 seems clear enough to be understood without additional guidance. pic.twitter.com/vy2hcCK7hZ
— Unity (@Unity_MoT) May 5, 2025
As test scores plummet, child mental health declines, and resilience among students crumbles, school leaders are focused on the dumbest things.
It's hard to say which came first--the focus on ideological purity or the declining test scores--but one thing is clear: none of these people have their eye on the ball.
Schools need to focus on basic education, not bizarre social experiments that lead to antiresilience. The more schools focus on fringe issues, the worse off students are.
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