Australia has a National Safe Schools Framework.
The Framework is set up with the following Vision Statement:
All Australian schools are safe, supportive and respectful teaching and learning communities that promote student wellbeing.
Under these Guiding Principles:
Australian schools:
- affirm the rights of all members of the school community to feel safe and be safe at school
- acknowledge that being safe and supported at school is essential for student wellbeing and effective learning
- accept responsibility for developing and sustaining safe and supportive learning and teaching communities that also fulfill the school’s child protection responsibilities
- encourage the active participation of all school community members in developing and maintaining a safe school community where diversity is valued
- actively support young people to develop understanding and skills to keep themselves and others safe
- commit to developing a safe school community through a whole-school andevidence-based approach
Looks good, am I right?
Well not to a certain Andrew Bolt. Never heard of him? Well… he is as bright as our typical conservatives here in the US. He is an Australian conservative social and political commentator. His current roles include blogger and columnist at the Melbourne-based Herald Sun.
Well his latest piece on these safe schools is rather….interesting.
In it he claims that:
“40-50 percent of young people who are not exclusively attracted to the opposite sex,” with “HALF OF CHILD ARE GAY,”
Yes, you read that right: half of the child are teh gay
So my question is….which half of a child is the gay half? The top half? The bottom half (With the naughty bits) or maybe it is the left half (After all, the author is a conservative) or maybe, G-d forbid it is the right half?
More research is needed!