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Dalal Smiley's avatar

Even children’s sense of inquiry is being quashed at schools by teachers policing what’s appropriate to ask . No wonder more and more parents are opting for home schooling their children.

j craw's avatar

Holocaust programmes funded by a state committing genocide......oh the irony

Meredith's avatar

It became a legally mandated part of the Vic curriculum in 2020: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-26/compulsory-holocaust-victorian-education/12001214?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

In addition to many schools using the resources mentioned in this article, they are encouraged to attend the Holocaust Museum, at a cost of $15 per child. For comparison, an excursion to the Immigration Museum is $1 per child.

Pippa Tandy's avatar

How much more of this covert stuff is happening in our schools and workplaces?

FM Stiff's avatar

Utterly inappropriate and outrageous. How dare schools promote this stuff without consultation with the school community

Mercurial's avatar

Of course they all 'decline to comment'. They know they are guilty, but they will never admit it.

franca's avatar

"funny" how the word "genocide" gets to be defined and accorded to just the "holocaust"....is the "education department" also making it compulsory to learn of the continuing genocide in our own country, and everywhere else

Steve's avatar

No problem with a curriculum item on bigotry and predjudice , including misogyny (Sydney Swans anyone ?) , homophobia , and all forms of racism including against First Nations (a near genocide still not mentioned in polite company) . But to single out antisemitism is simply to promote it. Kids aren’t stupid , how will a gay kid who regularly gets abuse, or a girl who has seen deepfakes of her nude on social media, or a Somali kid who has been called wogboy, feel seeing their Jewish classmates being singled out a special victims . But maybe that’s the Zionist playbook , to force all Aussie Jews into a virtual ghetto, so that they become bolted on supporters of the Zionist regime in Palestine.

Growup562's avatar

Think "like this" not

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