Personally Poirot I care zilch about her trashing of the flag. It is the perverse things that she has pushed on kids that makes her totally unsuitable for the role. Private philosophy obviously has effected public performance which is something regressives always deny even though it is obviously the case to anyone with half a brain. Turnbull should also be sacked for being such a wimp in allowing child grooming.

1. Nobody, no kid in school, should be bullied. Bullies should be beaten the sh!t out of behind the bike shed.

2. 'Heterosexual' is normal. Maybe everything else is as well, in the spirit that "When everybody's somebody, then no-one's anybody." I really don't care.

3. As a post-Marxist, I strongly object to describing Roz Ward as 'Marxist'. 'Gramscian' maybe, 'Trotskyite' probably, as one of those who treat their dogmatic perception of ideology as an unquestionable religion, but the correlation between her views of, say, a proletarian revolution and Marx's would be zero.

4. I don't recall Marx ever suggesting that there was anything remotely progressive about homosexuality - I think he would be completely dumb-founded. He would probably muse that, after all, wasn't it a particular upper-class English perversion ?

5. As for the Flag, I would be happy if the Aboriginal Flag replaced the Union jack up there in the corner, at some time in the future. My lovely wife and I made hundreds from 1972 onwards, and sent them all over the world. I think that by that time we had abandoned the dream that a red flag - i.e. representing a proletarian revolution - would ever fly over Australia.

7. "John Curtin and George Orwell and Helen Keller and Albert Einstein and Oscar Wilde" is a pretty broad church, Poirot. Any particular branch that takes your fancy ?

6. I fervently wish that I could give a toss about LBGTIQ issues, any more than I worry about bettongs, thong design, the purple-arsed namby-pamby, or spitting on pavements.

Express your support for these brilliant ideas here:

So Poirot,

You produce the "material" all of it, not just the redacted version that appears on the safe schools web site. Please try and tell us that the pretending to be gay or gender neutral does not exist. Please tell us that all the gender fluidity classes are not aimed at yr 7s, but just remember that I have family members that are school teachers.

Poirot, put your hand on your heart and tell us that safe schools is only about bullying, if you can't then you are a hypocrite.

SM,

You are hilarious!

Link me to "the material" under the Safe Schools banner that concerns you.

it's a simple request

Is this bullying by a teacher?
A friend Gordon of mine said today.
"I had a 13-year-old child come to me who tells me he’s been told to go home and find a picture of a male celebrity on the internet and explain to the entire class why he is sexually attracted to that male and he says to the teacher ‘I can’t do this’ and she removes him from the classroom.”

This is bullying!

Josephus,

"Is this bullying by a teacher?
A friend Gordon of mine said today.
"I had a 13-year-old child come to me who tells me he’s been told to go home and find a picture of a male celebrity on the internet and explain to the entire class why he is sexually attracted to that male and he says to the teacher ‘I can’t do this’ and she removes him from the classroom.”"

You are going to have to stop telling whoppers on this forum.

It's something you've done before....

"The Burka is seen in some suburbs of Sydney, On entering a shop once in Auburn a Burka clad mother and three children were exiting. I happened to step aside to allow them out and looked the woman in the eye. She went off down the street shouting "Rape" "I've been raped". Where else other than the eyes, do you recognize a fully black garbed woman with mesh over their eyes?

Posted by Josephus, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 8:55:09 AM

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=6585&page=0#198342

Not to mention this rubbish from earlier in the thread:

"I received a copy of a 'facebook' post by a professor who contributed to the Safe schools program that he stated that sex with children should be normalised. I will bring up his name if I can retrace it."

If you're going to make up stories and attempt to pass them off as factual, you should at least have the wits to make them believable.