Posted on 06/03/2006 3:27:06 PM PDT by naturalman1975
VICTORIAN schools are being advised to dump the words "mother" and "father" by a controversial new teachers manual that promotes the cause of same-sex parents.
Out of sensitivity to same-sex parent families, teachers should use "parent" or "carer" instead, the manual states.
Schools should also put up posters of gay celebrities in schools and not use gender-specific toys, the free Learn to Include teacher's manual urges.
It also suggests pupils as young as five should act out scenarios in which they have two mums and have discussions about discrimination.
The contentious manual, used in dozens of Victorian schools, is aimed at teachers of prep to year 3 pupils.
Victoria's Department of Education and Training has invited the editor of the manual, Vicki Harding, to promote it to principals and teachers at a taxpayer-funded conference in Melbourne next month.
Ms Harding will advise teachers about using the manual and children's books she has written about children with two mums or two dads.
Education Services Minister Jacinta Allan will address the conference.
The manual's classroom worksheets include a fill-in-the-word exercise about a child who climbs a tree while the youngster's "two mums" work in the garden.
The manual suggests – to help children respect diversity – teachers "include pictures of notable lesbians and gay men among images around the school" and use "gender neutral play materials".
Children should also be offered stories, games and television programs that show "people in various forms of relationships", it states.
The State Opposition claimed Ms Harding's invitation to the conference proved the State Government endorsed the guide.
"Parents don't send their children to school expecting them to receive those sorts of lessons," Opposition education spokesman Martin Dixon said. "It is political correctness gone mad ... (and) the Government is endorsing it."
Family Council of Victoria spokesman Bill Muehlenberg said parents would find the manual "reprehensible".
Department spokeswoman Melissa Arch said schools were free to decide whether to use the manual.
"It is not something the department imposes over them," she said.
Ms Allan's spokesman, Tim Mitchell, said the Government did not endorse the use of the guide.
This is a joke, right?
Egad! Maybe you'll get an explosion of homeschooling in Australia!
Interestingly the same government has just passed laws to register and regulate homeschoolers - and to give them increased powers to regulate private schools.
i am at a loss of words. the leftist homosexual lovers are truly off their rockers. it's like they don't even realize anymore that they've been made to look like a fool; they can't see their own distortedness.
this is an incredible leap for the schools to endorse this line of thought. as a parent, i am not only comfortable with using gender specific terms, but also with enforcing boy-like play for boys and girl-like play for girls. what's going to happen to the western world when we are unable to distinguish between anything, good or bad?
This will be on the horizon in the U.S. sooner than we know it.
Oh, wonderful. Well, good luck to Australia, they're gonna need it!
It will be if school vouchers take off. I'd guess 10 years to get (formerly) private schoolers hooked on the money, and then ... ZOT!
Good grief, folks. NO JOKE and ,p.it's happening here also - wake up.
This gay agenda is now being pushed into our schools across the country - they used to be 'under the radar' with books not listed as in the curriculum.
Now they're openly pushing it for required curriculum , starting in kindergarten. you stop it NOW - or never,
Take the example that passed the state legislature in California - that Gov. Schwarzenegger vows to veto
http://www.claremont.org/localliberty/archives/004993.html
wake up, Sheeple - this agenda has been pushed, hardcore, for 30 years - books for little kids in school have long ago eliminated any references or pictures of a husband/wife., father/mother relationship, While the Two Mommies and Two Daddies books are being taught.
GOOD LORD, when are the sheeple going to wake up. Decent people can't conceive that such evil could actually permeate our schools - time to take of the blinders.
I think the plumbers unions would like the bathroom requirements at this school. We need one for boys,girls,its,yous,transgenders,snake lovers...
Where's the sensitivity to opposite-sex parents?
This is so incredibly stupid. These idiots seem to think they can overwrite the laws of nature. I can't imagine referring to my parents (God rest their souls) as "carers." It sounds so. . . uncaring.
Maybe the queers should home school their kids?
Interestingly the same government has just passed laws to register and regulate homeschoolers - and to give them increased powers to regulate private schools.
I'm not sure why they don't. Homosexuals generally have above average education and income, and home schooling is demonstrably better education (in the aggregate) than public schools and many private schools.
Aussie Homosexual Agenda Ping!
Sounds to me like these kids ae going to be subjected to a bunch of "down under" stuff.
No doubt there are some seeking homosexual kangaroos down under to be used as role models for human behavior...
;-)
Just one more reason to have an amendment for sanctity of marriage.Its not the fact that there are homos but the fact that they are forcing their will on the American people.Homosexuality really should be a criminal offense with vigorous prosecution.
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