The Safe Schools Coalition is a group of organizations which promotes the acceptance of same sex attracted, intersex and gender diverse students. In 2016 the Turnbull government proposed cutting funding to the program and restricting it to secondary schools. Opponents of the program argue that parts of the group’s curriculum, including teaching 7 year olds to imagine they attracted to the same sex, are inappropriate. Proponents of the program, including the Green party, argue that between 1 and 2% of all students identify as gender diverse and the curriculum helps prevent bullying.
The Safe Schools programme should be modified to be less overtly LGBLT..
@4ZQ8V6K2yrs
No, that money should be used to fund health services as gay/trans/etc are a mental health issue.
Re-jig to improve sex education in government schools, that applies to all students, and include material that educates on the need for tolerance for the LGBT community .
Should bring back Gonski scheme
@4X5XDLH2yrs
People should reach adulthood before they are encouraged to pick a Gender while they are still impressionable.
No need to promote it. They either are or are not. They don't promote heterosexualness, so why homosexualness?
@4ZB22XM2yrs
Teach acceptance of people, change the curriculum to be inclusive. Teach safe sex regardless of where you stick it, or where you take it.
@53427KB2yrs
Safe schools should cover all forms of discrimination, body-ist, racist, etc as well as sexual choice. The information of sexual choice is also inaccurate overstating some cases 3 out of 4 transgender children grow out of it. Safe schools also encourages presently illegal behaviour and seeks to redefine 'normal'
Teach facts not emotion, respect not fear.
No, I think we should be taught to accept other people and there difference whether its religion, race, gender and who they are attracted but we don't need a safe schools coalition to achieve this as this should be taught at home or school.
Segregating children based on sexual preference is not going to solve the problem. Neither will protecting them from bullying. They need to be taught how to defend themselves, because no bully cares who or what you are, they only care about how to hurt you.
Yes, but address the wider issue of bullying instead of segregating sexual bullying
@57VNWJS2yrs
Also Parents and tougher consequences. Better Parental control over children, not those stupid laws we got.
@526HK5F2yrs
Education and awareness are the keys to a successful life; however, just limiting education to freedom of gender orientation is limiting; as limiting as religious/feminist schools etc. Positive discrimination is as devisive as negative!
@98XXFS81wk
Children cannot be convicted of crime if too young to understand the consequences of actions. How can we then suggest that it is acceptable for unlimited freedom of choice from far younger ages?
@98JTMFC1mo
No, but schools should discourage bullying
@98CFCGW2mos
Yes, but I believe the program should be changed to be more targeted specifically in primary schools.
Not a relevant question to my community or area
@9875QC82mos
Children don’t care about that kind of thing unless an adult has influenced them to think about it.
@986642C2mos
No, any school that promotes the Safe Schools program should be shut down and all staff investigated for grooming
@983R3F82mos
Yes but remove everything about gender identity.
@983HGX82mos
Yes, but restrict to secondary schools
@97ZL8PM2mos
Yes, with oversight to ensure it is not being inappropriate or overstepping its boundaries
@97ZHSN32mos
Should be only Provided Only in secondary schools
@97ZHR5V2mos
Again, it depends on how it is being rolled out.
@97WK4XC3mos
I don’t have an opinion
no redirect money into regular schools to update curriculum to bring them all to the same page
@97S6HKN3mos
It should be allowed, but in a way that would not confuse children by making them imagine they are attracted to others of the same sex, it could lead to confusion later on in life.
@97CGDDK3mos
i want schools to be unsafe and the kids are dying everyday
@97855ZY3mos
For appropriate ages - 14 and above
@96SXZHZ4mos
As a student I would like NOT to be shoot but unlike America we have gun control
@96RWCZN4mos
Reduced but not removed
@96R985G4mos
I think there should be an age cap in which gender ideology is taught as younger children don’t understand the ramifications of transitioning
@96J9M9M4mos
safe schools should be more concerned about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. not the current "woke" status of inventing pro-nouns to suit your hipster convenience to try become an individual. In some cases with transgender, unless both with both born male and female genitalia. transitioning should be treated as body dysmorphia identified by teachers and treated by professional psychiatrists to maintain a healthy relationship with who you are and how you were born. not the current coddling we are now seeing in modern society
@96HV22W4mos
Shouldn’t teach it. But yes.
@96GVKQF4mos
did you know, Betty Bought some Butter But the Butter was too Bitter, so she Bought some more Butter to make the Bitter Butter Better?
@96FVK5J4mos
No, the Government should ban all mentions of sexual activity in Public Schools
@96FSNRQ4mos
I say the government should should continue to fund but as soon as we notice negative impacts to stop funding the Coalition.
@96DW9XW4mos
I feel that schools should be teaching safety in the first place. Needing some sort of group or program to push it forward doesnt make sense.
Yes But Only At Upper Education
@967ZZPY4mos
After reading information this still isn't clear to me / doesn't make sense.
A school environment, any school environment in this day and age should support the LGBT.. etc.
Being LGB is not a choice, it is not an illness, it is how someone's brain is wired. Just like a heterosexual. I have many homophobic family members they are entitled to their option. If they have a problem with who I am, Thats really their problem not mine.
@965WRGP4mos
Yes, but reduce the funding to priorities normal schools.
Agree with still funding but teaching in secondary schools only when the students brains have developed more
@95S5PJY5mos
Depends on what’s being taught and if it’s having a noticeable and positive impact if it’s causing more harm than good can it but we should definitely have strategies in place for gender and sexual diverse students at school.
@95CX78T5mos
Yes, but it does depend on what is taught.
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