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.
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.
“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?
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