Posted on 08/26/2015 2:44:27 PM PDT by naturalman1975
All public schools across New South Wales have now been banned from viewing a gay parenting documentary following the controversy over a girls high school's decision for every student to watch the film.
NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli personally stepped in to stop Burwood Girls High School's special screening of Gayby Baby for all 1200 students during third and fourth periods this Friday after some parents are believed to have been upset by the decision to show the movie.
Going one significant step further on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Piccoli enforced a state-wide ban preventing all public schools being able to view the film about four kids who all have gay parents.
The decision was made to avoid 'impact on the delivery of planned lessons' of the 20 state schools that had signed up for a simultaneous broadcasting of the feature - along with 30 other schools across Australia - as part of a nationwide Wear it Purple day campaign to promote sexual inclusion in schools, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
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I'll be honest and say I actually have some problem with this, speaking as a secondary school teacher, I don't like the idea of a Ministerial ban on what I can and cannot decide to show students in my classroom. In this case, I may agree with the idea that this particular film is one that shouldn't be being shown - but I routinely show students in my classes videos and films that I can see being blocked by a left wing government if they thought they could get away with it (I teach in a private school, so it's a lot harder for them to intervene here - but that just creates a situation where kids in state schools become even more likely to be the victims of government indoctrination because their teachers can't oppose it).
The gays are intent to indoctrinate young people.. I’m impressed to see pushback at this level against that.
>>>Despite the controversy, it has been revealed that the Burwood school had not received one complaint from parents<<<
Sure they have. And this is an old tactic to isolate parents who complain and it’s designed to prevent them from organizing.
“You’re the only parents who complained about this!” is what faculty will repeat to hundreds of individual parents.
The tactic was exposed in this book 20 years ago!
http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-Schools-Berit-Kjos/dp/1565073886
The choice should be up to parents, and in fact, the film should be made available as a resource to parents. For the SCHOOL to decide my kid HAS to see it, and to decide his or her GRADE will be established by their participation in that is THE PROBLEM.
This isn’t banning Huck Finn for having the word ‘nigger’ in it. This is like a psychologist treating a patient who thinks he’s Napoleon by buying him a funny hat.
In biology class, we should point out that there are no ports in the human male for handling semen intake that would result in a viable pregnancy. If you saw a four point buck mounting a three point buck out in the Montana woods, you’d definitely think something was not normative going on.
Then you’d shoot the four pointer before he could dismount.
As am I.
This B.S. Leftist indoctrination of our nation’s children needs to stop this instant. It goes beyond sex into the political realm also.
Parents are the ones to instill their belief system in their children. Period.
I would agree that the golden rule, respect for others, and a concept of right and wrong should be taught, but as general guidelines for life.
I assume they have a curriculum and the parents know about it in advance. However, in many cases, things like this are introduced without any warning to the parents or any notification that the curriculum has been changed, added to, or whatever.
That’s how the gays have gotten away with many things here. They blindside people and it’s a done deal before parents even hear about it.
What schools need to do is have the curriculum (including readings, videos, etc.) published in advance and a mandatory announcement to parents about anything that is introduced into or deviates from the pre-approved curriculum.
This “Gayby” thing sounds horrible and I’m glad it was stopped.
Conservatives need to wise up: the state has always used and will always use government schools to indoctrinate students in the values that the elite thinks is in the interest of the state. The solution is not to restore traditional values and virtues to government schools. That is a lost cause. The only remaining solution is to withdraw support for the entire idea of government schools.
These Aussies may have won a skirmish, but they will lose the war as long as they keep enrolling their kids in government schools.
These people need to be stopped from spreading their sick propaganda. Burn all their materials.
Apparently, there is lots of resistance to legalizing homosexual mirage in Australia.
Okay, so why do Russians not have this problem. They also have public schools. Perhaps the fact is you need leaders who are willing to give the opposition a bloody nose and a dose of polonium once in a while, or deviants take over the system.
Unlike here, where the people couldn’t wait to go to a gay couple’s wedding . . . and throw any recalcitrant florists or bakers into prison.
Burn their materials? Really? I thought that is what the left would do? Myself, I am not going to burn materials of things I don’t like. Conservatives should be above burning...
“I don’t like the idea of a Ministerial ban on what I can and cannot decide to show students in my classroom.”
I do. Until 100% of the pupils are performing at or above their grade level you as a teacher should be concentrating on being certain the students in your charge can read, write, compose a coherent paragraph, all at the grade level.
And if you showed this sort of stuff to my child without my express written permission you and the administrators would be very likely to enjoy lengthy hospital stays nursing contusions and broken bones.
Keep your politics out of the damned classroom.
Clear enough?
L
My students are well above grade level. I rarely have a student who leaves my teaching with a grade below the 90th percentile in my state.
I'm also a history teacher, so while I don't ignore grammar, and other issues, I'm teaching something different.
If my students weren't meeting basic standards, then, yes, I'd focus on those basic standards - but they are exceeding them by very large margins and if I didn't extend them well beyond what the curriculum requires we'd be doing nothing at all in the classroom for the vast majority of times.
Keep your politics out of the damned classroom.
I don't push my political beliefs on my students - I deliberately don't - but I will not let them remain in ignorance because of the prejudices of other people (especially of governments) either and I will not allow the official curriculum to stop me from teaching them more than it requires and other points of views besides those mandated by the curriculum.
When I encounter a geography textbook endorsed by the government that calls military personal 'harmworkers' (and that's a real example) as a retired Naval officer, I will make no apology whatsoever for telling my students about the humanitarian work carried out by the military. And that's just one example.
I do my best to give my students all sides of the arguments. If I only taught the curriculum, I wouldn't be doing that. In most cases, I'd be given them a highly left wing viewpoint I don't agree with if I did that.
“When I encounter a geography textbook endorsed by the government that calls military personal ‘harmworkers’ (and that’s a real example) as a retired Naval officer, I will make no apology whatsoever for telling my students about the humanitarian work carried out by the military. And that’s just one example.”
I’d toss it in the trash in front of them and say “Governments lie. It’s the only way they can exist. in the 20th Century well over 200 million people were killed by their own governments. Treat every single government employee or politician as a liar until proven otherwise and you’ll be well ahead of the game.”
Thus endeth the lesson for today.
L
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