Individual,

"Would the Greens oppose Cock fighting?"

Would depend, I suppose, on the orientation of the Cock.

Dear Foxy,

Ideally, the way it should be:

The word "school" should not appear in legislation.
Those parents who want their children to study, should make their own arrangements, either by teaching them in person, by using private teachers or by using private bodies that employ teachers. Whatever is openly and honestly agreed between parents and teacher(s), so it shall be.

Regarding homosexuality, hopefully, teachers, with parent-support, will expect their pupils to refrain from sexual activities, thus it matters not whom the pupil happens to be sexually attracted to.

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Somewhat less than the above ideal:

All schools are private. The state gives parents education-vouchers which they can spend on any reasonable form of education for their children.

To participate in this scheme and be eligible for taking vouchers, schools must clearly state in advance, then follow, their sexual policies.

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What we can realistically hope for in this generation:

Following Ruddock's recommendation, all schools should declare their sexual policies in advance, then follow their declarations.

Hopefully, no school will have such a stupid policy to expel pupils or teachers due to their sexual preferences (so long as they do not perform sexual activities in or around school). This said, the vast majority of schools, including religious schools, would never expel pupils or teachers on sexual grounds anyway.

Sanity still has value!
This mornings Sydney press has a poll, just over 20 percent support schools rights to rule based on this issue.
Fell like dancing!
Sooo good to know the waffling /anti section of humanity is not in the real world as biased as it is here

Nobody seems to recognise that there has never been a problem and there is no indication that there will be one. This is just another way for the Reds to stir the pot and create another division in society as they did with SSM.

It seems to me that this "gay" business has become one of choice rather than genetic.

Dear Belly,

«This mornings Sydney press has a poll, just over 20 percent support schools rights to rule based on this issue.»

I am sure that if we search and dig enough, we can find some cherished pastimes and habits of yours which only 20 percent or less of the population approves of. Ban them?

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Dear Individual,

«It seems to me that this "gay" business has become one of choice rather than genetic.»

Those scientists and other experts who claim that homosexuality is genetic are probably right (though I think that social and developmental factors contribute as well), but being "gay" is certainly a political, rather than genetic, inclination.

Many years ago when I was in school and homosexuality was still illegal, there was a boy who declared himself to be homosexual: his parents were communist! He had the most beautiful girl in class as girlfriend, but to shock us he still declared himself as "homo" (that was before they robbed the word "gay" of its proper dictionary use).