[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.

[Tax-chick]

Generally accepted understandings of family, sexuality, maleness, femaleness, parenthood and culture are treated as 'dominant discourses' that impose and legitimise injustice and intolerance.

Yuck. I suppose this could be going on in American secondary schools, as well. I graduated in 1984, after reading dreadful stuff like Dickens and Hardy. I don't remember looking for Dominant Discourses on Maleness, either.

It must be hard for you, not to mention a total drag for the students.