Ariella Wilkinson came home crying over
Oftsed inspectors' questions
The schoolgirl had been asked if she felt
trapped in her own body
After becoming embarrassed she is said to
have given 'wrong answer'
She feels to blame for Grindon Hall Christian
School's branding as 'intolerant'
A mother has told of her ten-year-old
daughter’s devastation that her school was branded ‘intolerant’ after she gave
the wrong answer when asked ‘what is a lesbian’.
Ariella Wilkinson came home crying
after Ofsted inspectors interrogated her about homosexuality during a visit to
Grindon Hall Christian School.
The free school, in Sunderland, has now
been put in special measures after an official report found that discrimination
‘persisted’ at the school because of ‘homophobic language’.
Parents say inspectors ‘aggressively’ questioned just a few young children about lesbian relationships to form the basis of their judgement.
They deny their children are intolerant
and are compiling a petition against Ofsted’s decision, which has the potential
to close down the well-performing faith school.
Ariella’s mother Lena, 46, said: ‘The
questioning was completely inappropriate. They asked her what lesbians were,
and whether she felt trapped in someone else’s body.
‘She said she didn’t want to talk about
it, because she was embarrassed. She didn’t know why they were asking and she
wasn’t prepared for it.
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