Australian schoolchildren are being terrified by climate change lessons
PRIMARY school children are being terrified by lessons claiming climate change will bring "death, injury and destruction" to the world unless they take action.
On the eve of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's carbon tax package announcement, psychologists and scientists said the lessons were alarmist, created unneeded anxiety among school children and endangered their mental health.
Climate change as a "Doomsday scenario" is being taught in classrooms across Australia.
Resource material produced by the Gillard government for primary school teachers and students states climate change will cause "devastating disasters".
Australian National University's Centre for the Public Awareness of Science director Dr Sue Stocklmayer said climate change had been portrayed as "Doomsday scenarios with no way out".
http://www.news.com.au/national/australian-kids-are-living-in-climate-of-fear/story-e6frfkvr-1226091097398
As many school teachers would agree, activists - be they religious fundamentalists or 'progressive' (usually Fabian) activists - are forever trying to capture the minds of the young and have been very successful in changing schools curriculums to suit their agendas of social change. Most newby 'school' parents would be surprised for instance, at the stereotyping of boys in (say) the Queensland Department of Education curriculum as violent molesters of girls, who are to be re-educated and controlled to prevent them from realising their assumed genetic and cultural predisposition towards violence and anti-social behaviour. Even at micro level in the schoolyard, teachers informed by (pro)feminist discourses marginalise boys through banning 'violent' games like Red Rover (an innocent chasing game, played by boys and girls) and giving lesser support to 'boy' sports like football or cricket, in favour of singing and school bands.
It is time we as parents, grandparents and concerned members of the community called "Enough", because so many of these ratbag 'progressive' ideologies are causing harm to children. Here is an example from the papers today where tiny tots in primary schools are living in dread because educationalists have gone overboard on the prospect of environmental disasters. No wonder there is so much self-harm by school children and suicide in secondary school students is rife.
You are quite correct regarding the lack of male teachers in primary schools,
I'm sure that has come about because of the stigma that can be attached
to a male teacher if he even touches a girl student
Who would want to go through such an experience.. In my day there were very few female teachers, Some of the men were very strict,close to brutality, But we mostly survived and moved on in spite of them.
I think we both agree that early school years are very important including a variety of subjects
to broaden the mind of the student.
You mentioned removing your children out of public schooling but too late for the eldest boy,
Was that through lack of good teaching???.