HETEROSEXUALITY INCORRECT IN AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS

"Is promoting a lesbian lifestyle to primary school children a rare event? And are the producers of the ABC's Play School alone in their battle to normalise what many parents would consider unnatural behaviour? In fact, in recent years several education groups have sought to introduce gay, lesbian and transgender studies in the classroom?...

Start with the Australian Education Union, a strong advocate of a politically correct approach to gender. Under the heading Sex Education, the union's policy paper argues that gays, lesbians and transgender individuals have a right to teach sex education and that such learning should be "positive in its approach"....

In the first named paper, the rationale for teaching gender issues is so that "the workings of dominant models of masculinity on the lives of girls and boys can be examined ... Once such a platform has been established ... it is possible to initiate students into an active and effective exploration of alternative versions of masculinity"

Most parents are happy for their children to develop a traditional sense of what it means to be male or female. But English teachers are told that they must help students recognise "the various ways in which gender categories are tied to an oppressive binary structure for organising the social and cultural practices of adolescent boys and girls"....

As a result, traditional literature, such as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, is attacked for promoting heterosexual love and books such as The Magic Faraway Tree and traditional fairytales such as Jack and the Beanstalk are attacked for presenting boys as masculine and physically assertive."