Peta Credlin: New national draft curriculum is showing signs of progress
A national curriculum was supposed to allow students to move interstate and not have their schooling interrupted but the Left hijacked the agenda, although it’s now showing signs of improvement, according to Peta Credlin.
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Our country isn’t perfect; no country is. But the fact that every year hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world choose to come here shows that we’re as good as any, and better than most.
That’s why a national curriculum top-heavy with politically correct brainwashing that we’re culturally sterile, environmentally destructive racists, with no right to be here, is so wrongheaded.
For the past few months, federal Education Minister Alan Tudge has been speaking out against the new draft national curriculum on the grounds that it lacks intellectual rigour and presents a one-sided, left-wing version of Australia’s history and culture.
It seems that his campaign is making some progress.
He now says that, compared with the original version, the latest draft has “a stronger and clearer focus on phonics” and brings forward the introduction to students of the times tables.
“I am informed” he said, “that Year 2 kids will no longer be asked to identify statues that are racist. How that ever got into the draft, I do not know. According to the April draft, kids can’t apparently learn the times tables at Year 2, but can assess statues and deem them racist”.
The national curriculum was supposed to allow students to move interstate and not have their schooling interrupted.
Its introduction was never meant to lead to dumbed-down, biased teaching. But that’s what’s happened given the Left’s “long march through the institutions”, especially those that most shape people’s thinking.
As things stand, Tudge reckons that revisions to the new draft curriculum have lifted it from a failing “F” to a barely adequate “C”; but that students deserve an “A-plus”.
Exactly right, minister: They do deserve so much better than being told that Anzac Day is a “contested idea”.
Given the fact that the national curriculum is essentially the responsibility of the federal government, it’s time the Prime Minister backed in his minister to veto this flawed draft and start again.
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