Parents – not bureaucrats – should have a CHOICE in their children’s education and upbringing.
I spoke against the Liberal, Labor and Greens policies forcing both parents to work. Whether mum or dad stays home should be a family choice, not something they are forced into by the cost of living.
Empower parents with school choice and protect family values. Charter schools would give funding power back to families, not bureaucrats.
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Senator McKim, through his motion, is fabricating a false dichotomy, a false divide. It’s not public schools versus private schools; it’s parents versus woke education departments. The real issue is an undernourished education.
Maria Montessori, arguably the most comprehensive studier of human behaviour and human development, said that the critical years for the formation of both character and intellect are birth to six. We form our view of ourselves, we develop our ego and our view of the world before reasoning develops, because reasoning doesn’t start kicking in until around the age of nine. Babies are sponges. They focus on their parents, and the parents’ role is absolutely crucial—especially from zero to three, and then continuing from three to six. That is primary.
So what do we see? We see the Greens policies destroying families and the role of parents. We see Senator Waters recently speaking enthusiastically in the Senate about increasing women’s participation in work. The corollary is that women are not participating in family. That’s the shame. Parents—fathers and mothers—should have a choice as to whether both work or one stays at home. Parents should not be forced to leave their children in the care of someone else for economic reasons—the rising cost-of-living expenditure due to government and Greens policies; higher energy prices due to Greens policies; higher housing prices due to rampant immigration, due to Greens policies; taxation; high interest rates. Whether the mother or the father stays at home should be a choice for each couple, but one of them should have the opportunity to have that choice.
The Greens want the parenting role contracted out to government indoctrination. The Greens are pushing globalist policies through the United Nations and World Economic Forum alliance, and their stated goals are to destroy families. The Greens policies are destroying families and parenting.
I make the point that it certainly would be better to have charter schools introduced into this country because the government allocates money to the child, and that money follows the child to the school. If the parent wants to choose a private school, they have the funds. If the parent wants to choose a public school, the money goes to the public school. Then we’d give power to adults and parents and principals, not bureaucrats.
Please keep speaking up about this most important topic.
The family unit was for decades of generations a closely bonded strength so powerful it defied governments . Having realised this they ( governments ) are thinking about ways to break it ! By creating chaos in families by turning child against parent worked briefly now it appears to be game on .
Malcolm,
You’ve got the bull by the horns on this subject.
Bravo to intelligent solutions of management.
Parents have been fighting against the Education System for years. A lot of teachers are Labor supporters. It’s a hard battle for parents to stop indoctrination of your child. It can be done, but it’s extremely difficult.
WOKE is in public, private schools, TAFE, Uni, working environment. The system needs a major overhaul in a positive way
I think, more to the point, that the government want children in child care and the likes so they can brainwash them with their woke agenda from an early age. I am horrified at what children are taught in daycare.
Hi Malcolm, this idea – charter schools – would clean up a lot of the nonsense that I’ve seen happening in my decades of teaching in a variety of schools. The key would be that all schools would have to be open and transparent in order for parents to make an informed choice. Vote 1 Nation.
I’d hate to be bringing up young children today. The only option for avoiding the woke indoctrination of your children would be home schooling and that’s very demanding (and expensive as your child progresses) if you’re doing it properly, even if husband or wife is at home full time and especially if you have a very academically smart child.
Family values? When the system talks about Elder Abuse/Domestic violence, they talk, talk, talk. When seniors/pensioners in their 70’s have to mortgage their home to fund a solicitor to stop their children’s attempts to extort their parents home (The roof over their head). The family unit system is flawed.