{"id":403347,"date":"2019-04-19T01:35:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T00:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-teacher-sacked-for-opposing-homosexual-lessons\/"},"modified":"2019-04-19T01:35:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T00:35:23","slug":"presstv-uk-teacher-sacked-for-opposing-homosexual-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-teacher-sacked-for-opposing-homosexual-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK teacher sacked for opposing homosexual lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A female teacher has been sacked in Britain because for campaigning\u00a0online against homosexual lessons given to children, including her son, in primary schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Guardian <\/em>newspaper said on Tuesday that Kristie Higgs, 43, had been removed as a Christian secondary school assistant after she started a petition on her Facebook page trying to mobilize parents against plans to introduce compulsory sex education in all primary schools in the UK.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20190416\/6a949214-0cbc-4294-956a-d1fd16952fcd.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>Kristie Higgs has been sacked because she campaigned against homosexual lessons at UK primary schools. (Courtesy of\u00a0 The Guardian)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Higgs, who used to work for Farmor\u2019s School in Gloucestershire, in southern England, as a pastoral assistant, was sacked after authorities received a complaint from an anonymous person saying that had been \u201cposting homophobic and prejudiced views\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A disciplinary panel found Higgs guilty of gross misconduct and then ruled after two months that her online actions could&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/04\/16\/593601\/UK-homosexual-lessons-schools-row-teacher-sacked\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A female teacher has been sacked in Britain because for campaigning\u00a0online against homosexual lessons given to children, including her son, in primary schools. The Guardian newspaper said on Tuesday that Kristie Higgs, 43, had been removed as a Christian secondary school assistant after she started a petition on her Facebook page trying to mobilize parents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}