Once upon a time, people sent their children to school to get a rigorous basic education: you know, stuff like reading, writing and maths. These days, parents wanting that would be best advised to home-school — as a small but rapidly increasing number are.
Sending your kids to a government or even a great many private schools is condemning them to non-stop brainwashing in woke propaganda. Whether it’s the Climate Cult or the Groomers, kids are increasingly finishing 12 years of schooling functionally illiterate, but able to parrot left-wing talking-points.
Yet, while Australia’s educational standards are steadily slipping further and further behind — despite pouring more and more money into schools — schools are spending more and more time telling, not just kids, but their parents, what to think.
At least two Adelaide schools have sent information home to parents and guardians explaining how to discuss the controversial online influencer Andrew Tate with their children.
Until last week, I’d never even heard of Andrew Tate. As it turns out, I wasn’t missing out on anything. Tate first became “famous” — quote, unquote — as a kickboxer and Big Brother contestant. So there’s two strikes against being at all interested in him. Then he became an “influencer”, which is a byword for a vacuous cretin. At best, Tate appears to be nothing more than a mirror-image of misandrist harpy Clementine Ford. But, of course, Clammy is a “feminist”, so her hateful bile is snapped up by school libraries. Her equal-and-opposite, on the other hand…
The flyer on Tate produced by an Instagram page called @the.unteachables was originally distributed to teachers as a guide about talking about him without encouraging it.
“As a school we do not endorse the views of Andrew Tate and do not want to perpetuate these through the school,” Unley High School principal Greg Rolton wrote to students’ families.
“Please find the resources attached that we have put out to all staff to ensure they have tools to respond to such extreme views that may influence impressionable students” […]
Education Minister Blair Boyer said […] “You’ve got to send a letter to make parents aware and let parents have that chat to say ‘are you aware of this bloke, do you know what he is saying, do you know why this messaging is so dangerous and here’s what we can do to make you understand and navigate the pitfalls of social media’.”
ABC Australia
Or — bear with me here — teachers could just mind their ever-lovin’ business, and let parents decide best what values they raise their kids with.
But that would require them to pull their heads in and admit that they’re not the all-wise arbiters of what is Good and Wise. Like that’s going to happen.
