This is a good case for more parent participation in partnership and cooperative learning in the school community. Many schools in Queensland have opted for this kind of model. NSW is less enthusiastic about bringing parents into the classroom.

In partnership programs, parents can actually join their kids and their kid's friends: helping them in literacy, numeracy, history, and things that can actually help the teacher. This helps with standards. It also helps open the schools with more participation by parents. By direct witness, this dispels any mythology or folklore about alleged agendas or bias that some parents suspect. You can see for yourself.

Parents have increased input in curriculum planning now, if they join their PTA or equivalent group.

Get involved in your kid's learning. Why do those who don't bother getting involved in the school community subscribe to superstitious, folklore and prejudice that is probably just gossip? Surely politics is not more important than their welfare. Take a closer look and see what is really happening.

If gay students are no longer welcome by school, then maybe schools need to consider gay schools like the Harvey Milk School in New York and San Fransisco. Kids that think that they are gay or look gay, or know that they are gay, still have the right to go to school without persecution, no matter what you think of them.

When is it ok for the media to distort the truth so much it ends up giving the school a bad name?

When the media was approched in july it took them 3 months to come up with a story that put the girl in the spotlight. Making her seem to be the perfect student.

The truth of the matter is it was an in class activity, this student in class causes trouble all the time,

This aired over the september holiday and when the holidays finished first day back the office had to call her parents informing her that she had taken a trip to the beach.

PERFECT STUDENT......... yeah right

The teachers encouraged the students to go home and discuss the topic with parents and the fact is if she didn't want to do it she didn't have to.

Anyway it was a topic used across the state not just at the one school.