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It took one complaint from a parent "as a Christian" to undo all Andrew Moffat's work teaching children respect for people of different sexual orientation. A meeting of 40 parents followed with calls for an apology and the removal of books he had used in lessons.
Above all, the parents objected that he had told children he was gay. Moffat felt he could no longer continue and resigned. Far from retreating to a safe haven, however, he crossed Birmingham to take up an even greater challenge: assistant headteacher at Parkfield Community school, where 98.9% of pupils are from Muslim families.
The award-winning school is in the heart of a devout area where three inquiries have been held into the alleged "Trojan horse" plot by hardline Muslim governors to take over state schools, though Parkfield was not affected.