Rita Panahi: Adults enabling painfully woke activists

You can’t be mad at kids for being painfully ignorant, history-erasing activists when adults are enabling their ill-considered inanity.

Melbourne Girls Grammar. has dropped the name of Batman House. Picture: Ellen Smith

Parents must feel like fools paying more than $35,000 a year in tuition for their children to be turned into painfully ignorant, history-erasing activists.

It’s all the more silly when students can be indoctrinated for free at state schools; you could save upwards of $350,000 per child and use those funds to buy your self-loathing Leftist ideologue their first flat.

The privileged students of Melbourne Girls Grammar have followed Box Hill High and Northcote High and voted to banish Melbourne’s founder, John Batman, as a house name.

This ‘lunatics running the asylum’ phenomenon is similar to what we’ve seen from entitled students in the UK.

Earlier this year Seaford Head School made headlines for dropping JK Rowling and Winston Churchill as house names after a student-led revolt.

British author J. K. Rowling was dumped from a house name in the UK.

Winston Churchill was declared unfit to be connected to one UK school.

In the stupidly woke world of these young’uns Rowling is a bigot for suggesting biology is real and women’s spaces should be protected.

And, the man who defeated the Nazis was slandered as “a figure who promoted racism and inequality” and declared unfit to be connected to the school.

No one told these kids it’s unwise to judge historical figures by today’s PC standards or seek to erase them.

Melbourne Girls Grammar, where fees for VCE students are a staggering $37,484 per annum, claims to develop “ethical women of action” by promoting “a progressive, contemporary community of practice committed to providing personalised high quality curriculum”.

Principal Toni Meath: “Building students’ capacity for future readiness is a moral-ethical learning endeavour and one that cannot be left to chance.”

Parents are naive if they think sending their children to independent schools insulates them from political and social indoctrination.

When you hear concepts such as ‘unconscious bias’, ‘critical race theory’, ‘white privilege’ and ‘cultural appropriation’ being pushed uncritically then you know something has gone horribly wrong in our learning institutions.

You can’t be mad at the kids, after all it’s typical to be an idealistic idiot at that age, but the adults who are enabling, indeed encouraging, this ill-considered inanity should be mocked endlessly.