Teaching children to be sensitive and accepting is nothing to be concerned about if it’s an isolated incident?

A NSW school teacher has created a public furore after asking Year 9 students to imagine that they lived in a world where heterosexuality is the exception and, as a result, they were surrounded by gays and lesbians.

Apparently, the teacher’s aim was to prompt students to imagine what it would be like to be a minority group and, hopefully, to teach them to be more sensitive and accepting of different sexual practices and lifestyles.

Should parents be concerned? If the NSW teacher’s actions were an isolated incident, then parents would have little to worry about; unfortunately, this is not the case.

The reality is that governments and teacher groups around Australia, for some years, have pushed the rights of gays, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people on the basis that there is nothing wrong with such lifestyles.

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

National and state English teachers’ associations are also strong advocates of alternative sexual lifestyles. Since the late 1990s, conferences as well as official publications have sought to undermine heterosexuality by arguing there is nothing special about traditional approaches to gender.

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