STOP LYING ISSY! You know as well as I do it was Rufus Coops the first President of the grand republic of the good old U.S. of A, who chopped down grandma's tree. BTW, it wasn't a cheery tree, it was a pomegranate tree. The Yanks were at war with the Poms at the time, so they took to anything Pommy, such as trees. BTW President Coops didn't chop the tree down, well he sort of did, he used a tomahawk he swapped from the Chickasaw Indians for a strings of beads and a keg of 'firewater', all for a lousy tomahawk and the island of Manhattan.

Hope that has been a valuable history lesson for you.

Paul,
If you took history it didn’t work, try Caskarra.

Thanks, Ise, yes you are right it was George Washington, not Abe. I "corrected" my correct comment on George Washington, wrongly to Abe, wondering as I did so who would correct me! A good education is based on facts and corrected errors! Thank you for helping me make a very important point! Have a good weekend.
Alan B.

Alan,
Any time I can be of help!

Interesting how supposed libertarians of the right or conservative bent want to regulate more stuff?

Uncomfortable with how the US is always used as an example to aspire to; no matter how suboptimal, while radical right yet conservative libertarians seem paranoid about education, science and empowered citizens, in general, reflecting the deep seated eugenics roots or social pecking order?

Fact is CRT is not taught in US schools nor widely in higher education but simply more a framework for some analyses, not all.... similar to LGBT or gender are restricted to niche courses (as useful as mediaeval history for employment outcomes).

However, the teaching/learning theory framework or taxonomy that many have used (indirectly) in an attempt to nobble the independence of higher education curricula and content, has been Bloom's Taxonomy (also used K-12). It's a hierarchy of implicit skills to be learnt i.e. know/remember, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate and create or synthesise.

Kevin Andrews signalled the desire of his peers, although tertiary educated themselves, is that students do not need to learn skills of 'analysis' nor beyond, just the lower K-10/VET level; leaving Australian higher ed on par with Turkey, Hungary and Russia.

Hardly aspirational for research, the nation or economy but would produce less stress for LNP MPs, donors and gatekeepers with citizens knowing their place and not challenging the status quo?

Back in the fifties when kids were watching "Father Knows Best" and "Leave it to Beaver", which taught kids good social values, kids were not killing kids. Juvenile homicide is now the USA's fastest growing crime statistic.

Today, kids learn through rap songs how a real man rapes his mother, bashes his hoe, becomes a youth gang member, kills other gang members, regards women as body parts, and takes every drug imaginable. Dying of an overdose is the fashionable way to go for pop stars today.

TV was once touted as "the greatest educational tool ever invented." It is that, but today we don't care what values our kids are being educated in.

Kids from low income families who are not real bright living in single parent families, with no male role model present, are being educated to think that real men are violent men, who get even with their enemies with a gun, a knife, or a box of matches. What intelligent people see as on screen exaggerated parodies of life that is amusing, dumb kids see as a script for how to behave as a hero.

On screen bad guys are always depicted as being self assured, having lots of money, nice cars, the most sexy girlfriends, fashionable clothes, and the best lines. And then we wonder why kids with IQ's 70-85 want to emulate their heroes?