I am one of your constituents (Rosebud) and it concerns me that the Victorian school curriculum is actively engaged in promoting homosexuality as well as many other politically correct notions that do not stand up to even the most minor scrutiny.
I draw your attention to the document Kaleidoscope Student Lesson Plan (PDF - 152Kb) which may be obtained from the Respecting Diversity page of the Victorian Education website.
One of the more egregious mistakes in this document is where it makes the completely unsubstantiated claim that homosexuals represent 10 percent of the Australian population.
This figure does not concur with published statistics* that put the figure at around a tenth of that number (1.2 percent)
It is true that this could be attributed to a simple mathematical error as the author of the "lesson plan" apparently believes that 200,000 / 20,000,000 x 100 = 10 (which it does not).
Mathematical error or deliberate misrepresentation aside, this gross error of fact is repeated throughout the document in question.
If this is the state of research, mathematical competency and lesson planning in the Victorian Education Department then I weep for the poor children who are held hostage in classrooms while such misbegotten PC drivel as this is presented to them in the guise of education.
Quote:
Facilitator: What percentage of the population is SSA?
Researchers have found that more than 10 per cent of the population is SSA. Let’s
work out what this means for the Australian population. What is the population of
Australia?
Participants: (20 million)
Facilitator: If 10 per cent are SSA, how many people are SSA?
Participants: (200,000).
Facilitator: So, we know that 10 per cent or 1 in 10 people are SSA. Therefore, if
you know more than 10 people including family members, then all of you will
know people who are SSA. (Pause for comments.)
Incredibly, the "facilitator" (read Politically Correct Indoctrinator) then goes on to suggest that this means that there over 100 so-called "SSA's" in this very school!
The hidden message being that one of them may be you.
The Lesson Plan concludes with a poorly disguised attempt to ensure that students don't go telling "outsiders" about the lesson in question;
"What you hear in this room stays in this room."
I would be interested to hear your opinion on this matter, both as the relevant Minister and as my local MP.
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* "Number of homosexuals in Australia Nationwide statistics - 1.2% of adults identify as homosexual or lesbian. * 1.6% of adult men identified as homosexual and 0.8% of women as lesbian. * 1.4% of women and 0.9% of men said they were bisexual. Source: The 2003 'Sex in Australia' survey of 20,000 people, with a special weighting to Sydney's homosexual centre. Conducted by the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society(ARCSHS) at La Trobe University. Published in Australian & NZ Journal of Public Health, Vol 27 No 2 2003 ISSN 1326 0200." (saltshakers.org.au/issues/
UPDATE:
Received a form response 18/04/2012
Thank you for your email to the Hon. Martin Dixon, MP, Minister for Education, regarding the Kaleidoscope student lesson plan.
This is a response to advise you that your email is receiving attention. Please do not reply to this message
UPDATE
Eventually I received a reply via snail mail. I'm not going to reproduce it (because I lost it, doh!), suffice to say it was your normal boilerplate political waffle. It can be boiled down to this:
"Thank you for your correspondence, we're busy improving schools on your behalf and we fully support all forms of politically correct nonsense" spattered with words like "inclusiveness", "equality" and "sensitivity".
UPDATE
Eventually I received a reply via snail mail. I'm not going to reproduce it (because I lost it, doh!), suffice to say it was your normal boilerplate political waffle. It can be boiled down to this:
"Thank you for your correspondence, we're busy improving schools on your behalf and we fully support all forms of politically correct nonsense" spattered with words like "inclusiveness", "equality" and "sensitivity".
