The education system is designed to dumb average people down.

The system is broken, and needs to be reset,,,

How about supporting parents who choose to home educate their own children. Other countries provide financial payments, why doesn't Australia?

Easy fix. Make parents more responsible and/or accountable rather than treating our education system as a daycare provider.

A so called sex educator visited our 15 year olds classroom and the opening introductory statement was about how there are many genders. There are modules and assessments around only using approved information sources. Rather than teaching our youth to spot a good independent research study we are corralling them into narrow viewpoints. Yes the curriculum has indeed been influenced.

When you push trans and woke ideology instead of accurate education for people to understand wealth and health then yes it makes alot of sense.

It's not just the woke crap, that's just the tipping point, the issue is that Schools have failed children, they are meant to teach our kids skills but all they do is hound them with repetition, bogas tests that do not take peoples individual learning abilities into account, every person that graduates high school should, have a first aid certificate, know how to drive and fix basics on a car, know how to cook and nutrition, know how tax's and voting work, know how to swim, know how laws work just to name a few, the education system has failed us (though to be fair it was never to benefit us it was used for indoctrination to the work force). Schools are a blanket 1 size fits all and unfortunately if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will spend its whole life believing it is a failure.

We taught our son and gran kids to Read ,to count,not sure what they do there.

Why send them to school to be conditioned to be soldier ants and do as the government says

Many changes need to be made to schooling. I guess many parents see it as indoctrination of agendas that have been pushed of late & the feeling of children being introduced to the sex agenda world of the added confusion in their children's lives which many parents do not want their children to be apart of. Just reading, writing & arithmetic & maybe taking a leaf out of the caps from what's happening within the Japanese schools. Happy, prepared children being children & not having others ideologies pushed down their throats.

Children that are home schooled learn more than in school these days. That's a faked.

Also doesn't help that my kids in school come home reading the books and doing book reports on the same books I did at school for English.....and I finished school in 1990. Plus learning French......never used French in my life. Life schooling is what's needed alongside an updated relevant curriculum.

Our Daughter and her husband are adamant they will not be sending their three Boys into mainstream schooling, opting for homeschooling. The unacceptable , brainwashing ideologies taken over our corriculum is their reasoning. With their youngest 5 this year, we as grandparents give our grandchildren Love, kindness and commonsense. We share our values of Family, knowledge of veggie gardens, worm farms, Bee hives. They get the grass roots of all things nature from Nan&Pop.

Hundred percent. The education system and it's curriculum is FD. For the amount of tax payer funds and the time that systemized schooling has been around in our society, our results and quality of education should be getting better, not worse. And the quality of our teachers should be the same too. But our teachers are snowed under in admin not directly related to lessons and usually the student to teacher ratio is out of control too. Get way better dedication and focus without half the admin burden teaching your own kids. Plus not having to worry about insane daycare/childcare costs.

The move back to explicit and systematic instruction in literacy and mathematics in recent years is reaping results, however. Back to teaching phonics, explicit modelling of good sentence structure, using rich texts, and explicitly teaching and intentional review of numeracy knowledge and skills is resulting in much higher levels of competency. The data collected in schools using this approach, attests to its value

Absolutely it’s parents are homeschooling because of indoctrination and woke agendas

I chose to homeschool due to ongoing bullying at school and nothing done about it. School staff were also choosing which students they will provide support to and which ones went without despite being in a support unit. The curriculum content is for other parents a reason to homeschool. However, my family’s experience was purely on bullying and lack of support. Constant phone calls. My child singled out and placed on partial attendance. All because staff couldn’t control all the kids. My child retaliated and stood up to the bully guess what my child was suspended and the principal needed time to come up a student plan. My child already had a student plan in place which was not followed. More wasted paperwork that no one will look at.

So my 8 year old grandaughter had a question in primary school. She asked me.. I have 3 possible answers. She had one answer, but, it was not right according to the teacher. Like a good marxist the teacher says to her "there is only one answer accepted, and it is this one".

You need literacy and numeracy,to learn other subjects.

My wife and I work harder and go without things so our daughter can go to a private school. The quality of education is just so much better.

Children are all different. I raised four children and have seven grandchildren, so far 😉. They ALL learn differently. Some breeze through school and excel, others find it more difficult. What I find is that when my grandchildren are with me and we’re outside in the garden, in the paddock with the cattle, lying on the grass looking at the clouds, going on adventures in the forest, looking at the stars or baking in the kitchen whatever we discuss they are actively involved, they are watching, listening, questioning and LEARNING. Schools today don’t cater for curiosity and creativity. They are far too regimented and therefore restricted in their system. They don’t allow for children to think for themselves or discover. The greatest reward is seeing a child’s face that comprehends an outcome through experience. These lessons are NEVER forgotten and the children LOVE it and don’t even realise they’ve been being educated.

Rubbish - teacher at Christian school went woke and SMH ran her story when she was let go! Plenty of other schools to teach at. She wanted to have a say about our children as if they were hers.

I had to home-school my daughter after a bullying problem in grade 8. She passed year 8 with consistent B marks. However, when I started schooling her myself, I discovered that the teachers had lost her in around year 5, especially with Maths. So, we went back to basics. In two years, I brought her up to standard and with one on one and teaching her self learning techniques, she ploughed along. We moved to Perth and because she had been in Qld and home schooled, she had to sit literacy and numeracy tests to be able to start year 11 in a main stream highshool. Turns out she was way ahead of all the other kids entering year 11, so they offered her extra incentives as well. She did brick laying, hydroponic, interior decorating, welding and gardening courses as well as the normal curriculum. At the end of year 12, she was the school prefect and had earned several awards with her high school certificate of education. Also, she didn't suffer peer pressure, had a healthy respect for rules and regulations, put her school work first because she was used to doing that before she could do anything else while I home schooled her. She is a strong, well read, independent woman who thinks for herself. Couldn't be prouder of her.

schools teach children what to think, not how to think.

Exactly why my kids were homeschooled. Too many government agendas and anti Christian sentiment in public schools.