Re Scott Morrison comments on schooling (Your View, September 12) and comments from Kerrie Shearston.
Ms Shearston asserts in her letter that transgender issues "are not taught in NSW schools".
Whilst this may be correct now in 2018, this was not correct for the past few years where the “SafeSchools” program was teaching about transgender issues and promoting the homosexual agenda along with same sex marriage-issues that have no place being taught to developing children.
It is not a teacher’s place to be promoting any ideology in the classroom, and in fact if a teacher was a Christian and started promoting Christianity in the classroom we would not hear the end of it.
Mr Morrison was in no way attempting to denigrate "all the students in Sutherland Shire public schools", in fact he was asserting the fact that children should be educated in the basics of Maths or English instead of being taught ideologies that have no place in the classroom.
The facts are that Australian students are now placing or lagging behind countries such as Slovenia and Kazakhstan in relation to the basics of education, with no disrespect intended to the aforementioned countries.
Mr Morrison’s remarks were not "ill informed", on the contrary they are factual in regard to what has happened in the public ’education’ system for quite some time.
Teachers should teach children about things that are based in fact, not their own political ideologies which are based most of the time on theories which are not fact based, such as transgender issues, homosexuality, ’climate change’, evolution-Darwin’s theory.
Furthermore, the public education system should not be employing ’teachers’ that do not achieve a pass mark in their final exams.
The bar needs to be set far higher in regard to whom is ’educating’ our children.
Until we get back to the basics, as Mr Morrison asserted, then we will continue to lag behind the likes of Japan and Singapore and the other countries that are leaders in education, because they are being educated in Maths and the other basics rather than being fed the left wing political ideologies and/or the personal opinions and agendas of teachers in the classroom.
Sid Bream, Cronulla
