Our children need to be armed with the critical thinking skills for a changing world. There’s no place for single-minded ideology in our curriculum. All viewpoints must be presented to students in a balanced manner.
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As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I speak in support of Senator Hanson’s bill, the Australian Education Legislation Amendment (Prohibiting the Indoctrination of Children) Bill 2020. I support it because I have been the president of the board of a Montessori school. I’ve been on the advisory board of the International Montessori Council. I agree with the primacy of the family, the tripartite role between parents, teachers and child, in understanding education and supporting it. I want to correct something, though: the previous speaker seemed to have their imagination running wild, because he said, ‘These men come in here’. Well, Senator Hanson is a woman! She initiated this bill, and she’s a woman! During COVID, heavy-handed lockdowns forced children into learning from home, locked away from their friends and suffering through jerky attempts to teach through a Zoom screen. Of course parents were locked up at home with their children as well, listening to their classes in a way they never could before. Many were absolutely shocked as they heard the rubbish being taught to their children for the very first time. This bill tries to steer education back to the basics, to give our children critical thinking skills and to put the power back in parents’ hands to make sure that’s all they’re being taught.
In this bill, the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority would need to ensure that education provides a balanced presentation of opposing views on political, historical and scientific issues. Senator Hanson’s bill would require that, where opposing views exist, the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority is to ensure that the teaching profession is provided with the information, resources and support required to provide a balanced presentation to students. Wonderful! Federal funding would be conditional on states and territories requiring schools and their staff to provide a non-partisan education to students, while consulting with parents and guardians on the extent to which this has been achieved.
One Nation has been trying to keep this in check, with motions condemning the teaching of critical race theory and the curriculum’s erasing of history because it’s said to be too ‘white’ or Christian. There are lots of examples showing that stronger action is needed, and I commend Senator Antic and the others who spoke here today on that very point. There is, though, for example, the Parkdale Secondary College, where students were told to stand up if they were straight, white Christian males and be humiliated by the class because they were, ‘oppressors’. Without trial, they’re ‘oppressors’. Then there is Brauer College, where all the boys were forced to stand up at assembly and apologise to all of the girls on behalf of their gender. No specific crime was mentioned or identified for these boys to apologise for, except that they were the wrong gender. And only today One Nation New South Wales leader, Mark Latham, has drawn our attention to Mount Kuring-gai Public School. They are feeding fiction to students about history, forcing them to learn a play where Captain Cook arrives with the First Fleet in 1788 as a coloniser. For those who have forgotten history from their schooling, Captain Cook was long dead by the time of the First Fleet.
This bill is necessary to stop examples like this infecting our children, to return our teaching to the basics, to restore balance to the way topics are presented and to stop our schools from being indoctrination centres. This bill puts the teaching of balanced, critical analysis and parents in the driver’s seat of children’s education, as they should be.
100% agree, senator Roberts – thank you!
Lets not forget that Google, Amazon, Apple and the deep state have taken control of Wikipedia and are rewriting history and deleting people who do not agree with the current narrative. More important than ever is to keep paper books which can oly be burned but not edited. Google and Amazon have worked hard to discredit all of our health boards and CDC, FDA, NIH etc. People no longer believe in these institutions ( intentional) and are afraid to go to hospital or even their doctor. This is planned. Medication of the healthy is the future of medicine as these wealthy players take control of everyones life. Your smart phne and watch are reporting on you and identifying you as a candidate to live or die. Not making this up. 23and Me is owned by Googel and the DNA you supply for a fun ancestry experience is being held as data in your Google dossier.
Education is crueling the country and itself in more ways than this, Nature science has been missing for 60years , the green ideal ? how facile are our educators and governance when green dries off when leaves fall and Twiggs and limbs all become tinder dry regardless of how ignited catastrophic, currant educators and Governance, stop or cruel grazing close large areas up to be globe warming infernos On another note i recall Dad were at Riley reserve Loxton on the Murray , the lock put in and dad saying look at the water level markings going to be catastrophic when all the lakes and rivers are full and there is nothing to take any volume. ‘of course GLOBAL WARMING is ticked as the cause not bad management, i do not see pre-emptive releases
It is uplifting to witness some of our politicians not being so woke as to blindly follow the current trend of degrading history, nature, & religious values. However, with the current squeaky wheel of cancel culture, the resistance will be long, & at times, physically & psychologically risky. Remember the corona farce!
Everything starts somewhere. Something initiates it. Follow the crumb trail, it wont be obvious but it is there. Follow it deep down through the puss and slime and it will lead to the queen maggot. eliminate that and the whole disgusting nest will collapse. You will need assistance though. Time for those with the power to decide who amongst you is for Australia and who is willing to sink to any depth to ensure their cushy lurk persists.
Hey Malcolm, good article. The thing is, all education is indoctrination. All education is an attempt to have children embrace a particular worldview. You admit as much when you say you believe in the primacy of the family. You think the family is primary, and I agree. But not all educators think that. You also probably suspected there are only two genders, and I agree. But not all educators think that – and the differences impact curriculum right down to the core.
The question is not whether we will indoctrinate our children or not but with what values, worldview, ethics and standards we will indoctrinate them.
For a long time now, schools have moved away from basic education to indoctrination. Teachers and schools have absolutely no right to go behind parent’s backs to change a child’s gender.
Parents, you need to look at what they’re teaching your children and say no! Be brave, your children’s future depends on it.
Thank you for speaking against it!