the numerous examples of kids being brainwashed by gender/bender studies, global warming lies, Indigeneous culture and every other leftist bit of garbage shows how gutless and weak our Federal pollies have been for the last few decades. Most of the time it has been cowardly liberals who have allowed this vomit to indoctinate our kids. No wonder their is such a need for private schools. All this money spent on education while the average teacher and student dumbed down.

runner,

I'm sure that despite your efforts - your children
and grand-children will outgrow you and your viewpoints
thanks to the schools they'll go to. Unless of course
you'll home-school them. Even so - they'll be influenced
by their peers despite your indoctrination. Life happens-
despite your feeble attempts!

runner,

Private schools are one of the main threats still standing in the way of the intolerant multiculturalists and mass immigrations who are intent on replacing Anglo-Saxon Australians. That's why the Leftist media is always whining about the 'exclusivity' and 'whiteness' of private schools - many of which are far from exclusive and admit students of all ethnicities and colours.

The subordination and steady replacement of Anglo Saxons is unstoppable, thanks to governments' abandoning of us in favour of a more compliant population thirsting for welfare, and ready to vote for those ready to give it to them. Look what happened to John Howard when affiliated Asian voters thought he might close the gate to their many relatives and cronies.

The cosmopolitan left has abandoned the Aussie working class for new voters, including ethnic minorities, who can be relied on to support parties that keep the immigration door open to their kith and kin. Unfortunately, those parties are Liberal, Labor and Green.

The elitists have 'elected' new people to replace Anglo Australia.

School brainwashing is just one part of the operation.

The inter-marriages of Anglo-Saxons not only in the
UK, their colonies and in our country with populations
of people from various ethnic groups such as - the
Indigenous, Indian, Meditteranean,
Continental Europeans-Scandianvians, Africans,
African Americans, Chinese, Germans, French, and
many others, (and basically the rest of the world)
has changed the appearance over the centuries. It has
changed the Anglo-Saxon perceived image that some
still want to hold on to.

This should not be surprising to anyone with even a
smattering of historical knowledge - knowing that these
people historically are the most mixed people on the
planet. Their history of invasions and settlements
leave most other countries for dead.

Even the British royalty is of mixed ancestry - varying
from Germanic, Russian, Greek, French, to name just a few.
Including the recent - Afro-American addition.

All this can be verified in the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Not strictly brainwashing - not political at least- a school in Hull has had to apologise for setting homework on a answers that could be found only on porn websites.

All over the Western world, parents have to start finding out what sort of wackadoos have their kids at their mercy these days.

Foxy,

I don't disagree with David f, and neither does Dr Salter. Literature is largely intertwined with the politics of the day. However, Dr Salter's point was that the lesson 4 had nothing to do with literature and was pure politics or history at best and questioned why this imported politics was relevant in an Australian English class.