Posted on 12/15/2016 4:50:25 PM PST by naturalman1975
The education department is investigating teachers at a Sydney school after Year three students were made to launch a petition against child refugees in detention.
The NSW Department of Education is investigating a petition from Year 3 students at Helensburgh Public School, south of Sydney.
In the petition sent to politicians students as young as nine-years-old said they were heartbroken after being told of 'trapped' children living in 'detention like-like conditions,' The Daily Telegraph reported.
The letter from class 3L signed 'Friends of Children in Detention' reads: 'There are more than one hundred children on Nauru, who are living in detention-like conditions, trapped, with no hope for a better life.'
The children also wrote handwritten messages and drew pictures of children behind bars.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Year 3 students are, on average, about 8 years old.
I'm a teacher myself - I teach secondary school history to older students - 14-18 year olds. I am very careful to avoid promoting my own political beliefs in the classroom - with my oldest, most mature students, I will tell them if they ask, what I think and why, but I will also direct them to contrary arguments and encourage them to independently research things.
I've told the story before of how when I was at school in the late 1960s and early 1970s, one of my teachers, who was also the school's Chaplain was very active in the anti-Vietnam War movement, and also a number of other left-wing causes (a couple of which I even agreed with him on actually). I was considering going into the military after I left school, and I sought out the teachers I trusted and admired for advice - I had lost my parents so I relied on certain other adults. When I went to him, I expected him to tell me joining the military was a bad idea. Instead, he told me it was a good career and he thought I'd do well in it. My surprise was obvious to him, because he went on to elaborate on his philosophy of teaching.
He told me that his mission as a teacher was always to try and teach his students HOW to think, not WHAT to think. And while he was always happy on some level, when a student agreed with him, that he would regard himself as a profound failure as a teacher if all his students did so. It would mean he'd failed to teach them to think for themselves.
When I became a teacher myself, I've tried to adopt the same philosophy.
Trouble is, I see way too many teachers who really do seem to think they are right to push their agenda on to their students - and the ones who do that, nearly always seem to be the lefties.
This article doesn't mention it but earlier this week, a number of teachers (they say hundreds but I don't think anybody knows the numbers) in my state (Victoria, Australia) decided to wear pro-refugee t-shirts in class with the explicit support of their union, to specifically preach to kids. And what really worries me isn't just that they did that, and that they got away with it - but also that most of them don't even seem to think they are being political. They seem to think they are just right.
If,by chance,Australian education has gone the same basic route over the last 30-40 years as American education has the explanation is simple:these teachers are enthusiastic leftists who have no problem using young kids as tools to achieve their own twisted goals.
and send them home ?
If you allow illegals to bring or pinch off new ones, they will tug the heartstrings of the innocent and stupid.
Do not allow illegals to arrive and take root. Nature will fix it and likely kill we that know better in the process.
This problem has been around longer than rocket science.
i’d prefer that or make the teachers raise them.
Thank you for that useful bit of information. Dealing with another English-speaking country separated by a common language is always interesting.
That corresponds with our third grade, so it's understandable.
The education department is investigating teachers at a Sydney school after Year three students were made to launch a petition against child refugees in detention.
Investigating? WTF?
Fire them first, investigate later!
Something is seriously wrong when adults who should know better push their personal political inclinations on children who are yet still unprepared to understand; or resist. That is definitely opportunistic child abuse.
Those "child refugees" come from a culture where children their age, and younger, are currently used as human shields or human bombs. No further discussion in a classroom should be tolerated.
What the teachers choose to believe for themselves or their own family is their business.
What the student children should be learning politically or culturally in their own country is their parent's business. No one else's!
Learning about sick cultures which behave barbarically and murderously for many centuries and how these children should react and respond to them is not the teacher's job. Even if she chooses to welcome animals into her home, she is free to do so and try to win their hearts and minds.
Risking the lives of herself and family I'm sure is acceptable to normal Australians, and other citizens of civilized countries everywhere.
It's not surprising that most civilized human beings in the rest of the world view the arrogant and extremely ignorant, presumptuous behavior of those teachers as reprehensible and beyond the pale.
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