Shockadelic,

Yes, that's one reason I'm very worried about changing the Constitution to recognise any particular cultural assemblage, especially if it mandates a separate and different education imposed on Indigenous people, and if it shuts people out from standard education.

Yes, it might be great for the careers of a few academics and teachers, but we only have to look at the mess that education for indigenous people is in, in remote areas, particularly in relation to what language education is taught in, to realise what a disaster that would be.

I certainly hope that no restrictions are ever again placed on Indigenous people to choose what school, and what sort of curriculum, and in what language, they wish.

Here in Adelaide, a separate Aboriginal School was set up in 1985, supposedly to provide a better way for Aboriginal kids to finish secondary school successfully, but I don't know that any Aboriginal student has done all their schooling there AND completed Year 12. I think it was yet another scam. I hope I'm wrong, because there have been some good people working there.

Standard, mainstream schooling, on the other hand, seems to work as well for Aboriginal kids as for anybody else. Leave it alone.

Joe