Where’s the fire?
This is somewhat puzzling.
A THREAD Today I’m delivering LGBT+ workshops to over 100 year 7s at a school in East London as part of my new @LondonFire Equalities Job. Before we started we were told 8 parents had contacted the school to pull their kids out specifically of my session “Cos of Birmingham” 1/6 pic.twitter.com/CvDusThBDD
— Abby Crawford (@Abby_Crawford_) June 20, 2019
I don’t get it. Why is the London fire department, or Fire Service as it’s called over there, giving LGBT+ workshops? Why is the Fire Service doing that any more than grocers or bus drivers or bankers or plumbers would?
Lots of people asked about that.
I'm very concerned about anyone giving lessons to children and would want to ensure it's evidence based and linked to peer reviewed research. Are you going into care homes, local groups and more to deliver this to adults? Is @londonfire diversifying the service they provide?
— Kay Dee RN (@MrsKEDavis) June 23, 2019
Can I ask what training you have had to be delivering personal and social education to schools? It just seems odd that the fire service is needed for this when we have trained teachers in schools.
— Zerenaaaaagh! 💜🤍 💚 🇺🇦🇮🇱🎗️ (@ZerenaMoose) June 22, 2019
Abby Crawford never answered the question, that I saw.
I’m all for equality, and even equalities, but I don’t see what that has to do with sending someone from the Fire Service into schools to do LGBT+ workshops. I just cannot see the connection. Maybe surgeons should be turning up at the Fire Service to give electrical engineering workshops?
The Fire Service has an equality and diversity page.
Equality, diversity and inclusion are fundamentals at London Fire Brigade – and long have been. We’re one of the most diverse cities in the world, and we value the contribution that every community makes to London.
We exist for our communities, and we’re proud to celebrate and support the diversity of London as an inclusive team that represents the city we serve.
That all seems entirely sensible and useful. Fire fighters have to burst into people’s houses, perform rescues, get all up in their business in every way. It seems fine to have community outreach and internal advice on inclusiveness. But how they get from that to doing LGBT+ workshops in schools is beyond me.
Oh, she answered, with an obnoxious “let me google that for you” tweet:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Abby_Crawford_/status/1142400537318580224
Putting the political and social issues aside, I find it a bit weird do a thread about how horribly sad you are that 8 kids missed your presentation because it was so effing awesome and would have made them much better people. That’s Trump-level arrogance there.
Skeletor, my working guess is she’s either very young and naive, and blinded by the light of something she’ll come to reconsider later, or she’s solidifying her personality as a self-regarding exploiter of children who masquerades as a caring adult role model.
The replies to Abby’s snarky reply suggest people have not been cowed or hoodwinked. Quite the reverse in fact.
Hah, true about the Trump level arrogance. “They would have learned SO MUCH from me but now they’re doomed, doomed.”
*reads the replies to Abby’s snarky reply*
Hoo-boy. That didn’t go over well.
Abby’s tweets are now ‘protected.’
Which is deeply pointless for someone doing PR and outreach. What a failure.