Sorry Jay of Melbourne, I just don't believe that any public school grade 3 teacher brought in a transgender person for 'show and tell'! I also very much doubt there is rampant homosexual propaganda being peddled all day in public schools, as some want us to believe.

This sort of false rubbish is only trotted out by hysterical characters who have their own anti-homosexual agendas, and want to ram it down everyone else's throats (pardon the pun), so everyone else can be whipped into a similar frenzy.

@Longy "If you do not like what priests were doing, you cannot condone what is happening in schools"

Man you need to take a good hard look at yourself, if you can workout the difference between adults raping children and teachers decreasing sex education that is more inclusive of the reality of life.

It's so interesting to see that conservative religious types get so worked up about sex education but anything to actually do with the ten commandments is down played.

Why is it that these things need to be taught in schools? Kids go to school to be educated in the things they need to help them in life. Schools have professional teachers who are trained to impart information and practical skills in ways that can be guaranteed to succeed. The more complex the information and skill the more trained the teachers need to be.

These kinds of skills are not found in the average parent and so school is necessary. Not every bit of information or every skill comes from school. Why should sex education be the province of schools when there is no need for highly trained professionals to impart such knowledge? Most parents are quite capable of giving their children the information they need to live out the sexual part of their lives. It is as they say ‘not rocket science’. There seems no need to have it in the school curriculum at all. There are many issues that are not dealt with at school.

The same might be said for issues like inclusivity and respect for others. What kind of specialist training does someone need to impart these values? It should be the responsibility of parents to teach these things – not the responsibility of schools.

It appears that some groups want to make sure that children receive the information that they deem appropriate and do not trust parents to teach their kids properly. Why do education authorities intervene in the parent/child relationship like this? That is not their role to teach what can be taught outside of school. Why do governments also want to force these authorities to take control?

This is not about education but about trying to indoctrinate kids. It is an abuse of the power of the schools to feed information to kids by which certain groups hope to influence society. Education is a responsibility and abusing that responsibility is a serious business.

I totally agree Phanto. It should be the parents who discuss these issues with their kids.
If only there weren't all those judgemental, ignorant homophobe adults out there who were quick to spread their hatred and lies, then that would work well.

I also think that religion should be strictly taught in the homes as well, as peddling all those superstitious stories and lies to innocent children is wrong too.

In year 1 I got my kids enrolled in sex awareness education to enable them to understand what is private and protect them against predators. In senior school they had sensible education on the biology, emotions etc of sex, how to enable them to make their own choices, avoid peer pressure, unwanted pregnancies or STDs. Their choice of gender was entirely up to them. Similarly bullying, racism and homophobia were not tolerated at school.

However, I objected to my kids being subjected to mandatory non educational political or religious agendas such as "ethics" lessons by priests, and while my kids are now at UNI, I would also have objected to the gratuitous political indoctrination masquerading as an anti bullying program.

It looks like the left have decided as schools have a captive impressionable audience that they are the perfect for political indoctrination.

It gets worse;
Now the leaders in this trans sex movement are promoting that sex is
not binary, ie you are male or female but there can be a range.

There can be a scale of +10 to +1 to 0 to -1 to -10.

So you can be +3 so that means you are slightly male.
Perhaps if you are neither you can be 0 !
or perhaps if you are a feminazi you would be -15 !

The mind boggles at the thought of toilets and change rooms.
The odd thing is these ideas are coming out of universities.
Now if such way out thinking is typical of universities how much
does it infect say engineering and scientific disciplines ?
Should we in fact investigate those academic areas with a view to
dismissing all the staff and restructure them all.