Peta Credlin: New school curriculum a left-wing production

The education system is designed to teach kids to be activists and is no longer about teaching them how to read, write, count and think, writes Peta Credlin.

IF you’ve ever wondered why your children and grandchildren have such activist views on climate change, identity and Australia’s place in the world, now you know: it’s because the national curriculum is designed to turn them out that way.

Schooling is no longer about teaching students how to read, write, count and think. It’s not about knowledge and insights into maths, science, history and literature. It’s about giving young Australians a politically correct bias. And it’s about to get worse.

Left-wing ideologues have long understood that if you get into the education system you can change society, particularly if you’re prepared to be patient. Bit by bit, politically correct changes have seeped into schools so that, today, under the national curriculum introduced by Julia Gillard, every subject is supposed to be taught from Indigenous, sustainability and Asian perspectives (as if there can be “Indigenous” maths, as opposed to maths that is either right or wrong).

The national curriculum needs to be addressed, Peta Credlin writes.

Teach about Indigenous peoples and cultures, about environmental issues and about Asia but, please, let’s stick to the facts and spare the state-sanctioned brainwashing.

But facts are in short supply; they’ve been twisted or ignored to mould tomorrow’s voters into a left-wing mindset. The curriculum now refers to Australia as a “multi-faith society with a Christian heritage”. The new one will drop Christianity. Reference to “Indigenous” and “Aboriginal” people are now out because these are seen as “imposed terms”; replaced by “Australian First Nations Peoples”.

Much of this is propaganda, not education. Even the “invasion” narrative is now official when our students come to learn about the settlement of modern-day Australia.

All this is happening without any serious national debate or approval from any elected parliament. The new curriculum will now go before Australia’s nine state, territory and Commonwealth education ministers. But because all of them are responsible, effectively none of them are responsible, and this curriculum, like its predecessors, will just get waved through. Within a few months, the document the federal minister said on Friday was just a “draft” will become something that “just happened” that had “nothing to do” with him.

Wherever you look — health, the environment and education in particular — there’s too much done by unaccountable “officials” with only the most cursory reference to elected politicians, who invariably lack the courage to resist. This is where we citizens need to demand our democracy back.

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