[Tax-chick]

"While parents wonder why their children have never heard of the Romantic poets, Yeats or the Great War poets, and never ploughed through a Bronte, Orwell or Dickens novel, their children are engaged in analysing a variety of 'texts', including films, magazines, advertisements and even road signs as part of critical literacy," Cardinal Pell declared.

Wow.

[naturalman1975]

He's right - I'm a teacher (history and IT in my case) and what I see in the English syllabus is very disturbing. And I teach at an elite private school which is somewhat insulated from the worst excesses of these ideas. We can't ignore them completely because our kids have to do the VCE. But it must be far worse elsewhere.