[naturalman1975]

Chess is generally encouraged. I'm not sure what the people who run those programs think.

[SeasideSparrow]

Toys, of any sort, do not belong in schools. The idea isn't to dumb the kids down - it's for them to learn that education is a serious business, and that school isn't a playground

You're telling me that government schools in Australia aren't socialist indoctrination centers? And that they take education seriously?

You can't be serious saying this is only about kids keeping their toy guns at home when Australia has implemented draconian gun control laws. Read all about it here: http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/6/26/12629

The only thing Australian government schools probably take seriously is brainwashing education.

And as far as school nurses: Here in America there are school nurses/school counselors in the government schools and I know firsthand that they recommend abortion clinics to students. I seriously doubt that in Australia the schools lack an employee to do the very same thing.

But you're right: In Christian schools that is not going to happen unless the Christian school has been infiltrated by Secular Fundamentalist Liberals and the parents are dumbed down enough not to recognize it.