A recent homework assignment that showed up a TV show is receiving heavy criticism from campaigners all across the country. The project involves a bingo-style game that asks children to cross out squares whenever they come across a character that references same-sex marriage or LGBT.
The overall purpose of this game was to encourage school children who are as young as 11 years old to recognize how the media portrays LGBT characters or even references. The program was developed by the Sex Education Forum which aims to bring compulsory sex education in all schools. The bingo game was launched by the form in its latest e-magazine for teachers who work at elementary and secondary schools which heavily focuses on LGBT issue.
As soon as it was released, the homework project was under heavy fire from campaigners that called it an “inappropriate” topic for homework. Norman Wells, director of the Family Education Trust said: "This activity encourages pupils to focus on sexual characteristics and behavior to the exclusion of everything else. "It also gives disproportionate attention to lifestyles and sexual feelings which are very much in the minority.”
Wells went as far as to state that the homework was merely a result of an “unhealthy obsession with sex”.
