Pauline Hanson Bill targets indoctrination of school children
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Skewed versions of history and science, and sexualised school programs that indoctrinate young children with controversies like gender fluidity, are among the targets of a groundbreaking private Bill to be tabled this week by One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson.
Senator Hanson will table the Private Senator’s Bill on Monday to force any contentious school curricula to be balanced.
“Children are easy targets of all sorts of false and left-leaning teachings and parents have had a gut full of seeing the people they entrust with teaching their children, pushing their own agendas,” Senator Hanson said.
“Children should be given balanced information, including views about political, historic and scientific matters, and they should be very strongly encouraged to think critically about what they are told and learn to make up their own informed views.
“When children graduate from school, they need skills in historic research and scientific thinking, which will support them throughout their lives.”
The Prohibiting the Indoctrination of Children Bill would counteract a wide range of issues described as indoctrination of young children: including skewed versions of history taught as fact, controversial sexual programs that teach gender fluidity and realignment to infants, unsubstantiated human-induced climate change, as well as the teachings of so-called “safe” underage sex, sexting, and non-traditional sex.
“The Bill recognises parents across Australia who have concerns about biased teachings, they don’t like the teaching of non-traditional and controversial views that don’t give the full picture; they want to protect and strengthen their children, and this Bill does that,” Senator Hanson said.
“Parents want a sensible curriculum that sets their children up for meaningful, employable futures, without the distraction of false or imbalanced ideology.”
The Bill notes that a growing number of teachers may hold biased views that can be passed on to their students, and ensures that resources that promote a balanced presentation of opposing views on political, historical and scientific issues are provided to the teaching profession.
The Bill also links the payment of Commonwealth education funding to state and territories to the satisfactory teaching of a balanced curriculum and also requires schools to liaise with parents to let them know the extent to which students are provided with a balanced presentation of opposing views.
The Australian Education Legislation Amendment (Prohibiting the Indoctrination of Children) Bill 2020 is expected to be presented to the Senate in the second week of February, 2020.
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