Should the government continue to fund the Safe Schools Coalition?

No need to promote it. They either are or are not. They don't promote heterosexualness, so why homosexualness?

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'

The Safe Schools programme should be modified to be less overtly LGBLT..

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 .

Teach acceptance of people, change the curriculum to be inclusive. Teach safe sex regardless of where you stick it, or where you take it.

Should bring back Gonski scheme

People should reach adulthood before they are encouraged to pick a Gender while they are still impressionable.

Teach facts not emotion, respect not fear.

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!

Yes, but address the wider issue of bullying instead of segregating sexual bullying

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.

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.

Also Parents and tougher consequences. Better Parental control over children, not those stupid laws we got.

Only if it does not promote political beliefs or gender ideology

No, there are other programs intended to reduce bullying.

Yes, but only when they are at least 14 years old. Let them imagine there lives personally through there own journeys, not teaching 7 year olds about sexual acts. Once they are of age and personally have questions based around there sexuality create a safe place that they feel they can come and not be belittled or bullied for feeling different to there school classmates.

ideally it would be funded by the people involved, but the results are more important

No, the program should be revised and restricted to secondary school.

Programs like safe schools are good, but government support should focus on protecting all vulnerable students from bullying and abuse, not only those labeled by identity categories

From my understanding its to stop bullying so I am for it so long as its not at the detriment of others. If anything there should be more policies to help with everyone not getting bullied, again so long as its not at the detriment of others.

Many education programs are low quality and fail. I am not against it by principle but I am unsure about its effectiveness.

yes but they shouldn't suggest ideas such as including teaching 7 year olds to imagine they are attracted to the same sex - let them decide themself

Yes I believe this is important however I think there needs to be some more regulations around how much funding is allocated in particular during the cost-of-living crisis

It has been perverted(sic) intoo a propaganda campaign to further confuse young children who are these days confused enough by dual income parenting and absentee parenting alongside too much access to ANYTHING on social media, and alongside very poor and declining teaching values that rely more on social indoctrination then education. Look around you - we are living in an era of borderline kids and young adults who are so out of touch with reality - well - they are a lost generation trapped into perpetual internal confllict beteween one another and

Maybe they should be a reasonable age where they might actually be certain so it's not innapropriate-ish?

Students at preschool-primary age shouldn’t be exposed to LGBT until they have their mature around high school years. Additionally, this sort of topic should only be taught if the teen is experiencing themselves or therefore by choice they wish to learn about it. However, safe schools for these are optional too but it should be optional

To an extent, while it should be taught to treat everyone as equals no matter gender we should not be teaching children to imagine it, include it in stories etc a child with two mums. That way students learn to tolerate it and it’s not pushed

they should not need funding but it should be accepted but not promoted kids need to decided for themselves

No, the government should not continue to fund the Safe Schools Coalition, as children should primarily focus on core academic subjects like maths, science, and history. Education should prioritise foundational knowledge and skills, rather than include topics such as sexuality or LGBTQ+ issues, which may be better to addressed in appropriate settings or at an older age.

Everyone should be accepted as they are. But my religous beliefs say that the sin is bad and the person is good.

I believe it needs to be taught, but not to children that are too young to understand. Teach it in the highschools.

Absolutely not. Children need not ponder on their sexuality or lackthereof since they are children. At some point they will figure it out, just as everyone has done since the dawn of humanity.

They should be encouraging of this and understanding but this does not mean it should be forced onto a child.

It is an important thing for schools, and young people alike, and should be funded by the government, however if something more pressing arises than potentially a discussion should be brought about to see if some of the money should be redistributed. But yes.

I think it should be a part of the curriculum but don't make 7 year olds imagine they are attracted to the same sex.

maybe not all of it is necessary but the kids should definitely be taught to be accepting and respectful.

Yes, as long as content of the curriculum is examined and approved by social scientists and child psychologists who specialise in relevant fields of study.

Yes, but implementation should only occur with prior consultation, and consent, of the school community; parents, students, and teachers; schools should be able to access government resources to aid acceptance of same sex attracted, intersex, and gender diverse individuals in their schools, in order to prevent bullying, and to create a safer learning environment, for all.

This should be a high school thing, at least kids are somewhat old enough to decide what and who they want to be.

Yes if they are focused on preventing bullying, no if it means telling children how to think, including forcing them to think they’re same sex attracted for a short period of time.

i dont think that their needs to be education on this until children are older and able to make clear decisions themselves. and it should just be brought into conversation at a senior school age. there should be a place for students to feel safe to go to confide in someone about how they are feeling however the notion of telling 7 year olds to image they are attracted to the opposite sex is inappropriate at that age.

No, it should be strongly restricted to only secondary schools as primary schools should let kids be kids and focus on improving the current learning curriculum to help benefit all students to graduate

It should be continued as long as it isn't being pushed onto young students in primary school and the arly high school years.

To secondary school students only. Individual conversations can be had on a case by case basis for younger students.

Yes but review and update curriculum to remove inappropriate content that may influence instead of just raise awareness of….

Yes, but with controls in space that it supports lowering bullying without inadvertently promote the ridiculous growing number of gender diversity variants.

everyone should be accepted but 7 year olds don't need to learn about attraction or anything sexually related regardless of what gender they identify as or 'like'

Yes. But it should experience a reform to acknowledge transgenderism as mainly a mental health issue that would not include physical or medical intervention for children in any circumstances.

If it promotes acceptance and is used as a learning tool for all genders / sexualities based on facts, and not used as a tool to promote specific ideologies, then it should remain funded. Otherwise no, it should be replaced.

NO! It is just a front for pushing gender ideology and adult sexuality onto children. It needs to go and people need to lose their jobs.

Yes, but only for children going into secondary school (year 7 and above). The only time it’s necessary before then is if there is a child attending the school bellow these grades that needs extra support and can be used as a learning opportunity

Yes, but for secondary schools. Primary schools should have safe places, and books, for those who do identify as such or are still figuring it out

Yes, but only for those who are teenagers to graduates, as for younger children, only stuff such as consent education and inclusivity should be taught and must have zero sexual rhetoric.

I feel that it should be taught to ages like 12 and above when they start to learn more about their body and the world around them.

No. Stop indoctrinating our children. This is not China in the cultural revolution. Be educators of the basic, schools are failing to teach basic math, English, science etc

Stop indoctrinating our children with elite social theory. We are not china in the cultural revolution.

A re-examination of the purpose of the coalition is needed. And it should only be applicable to secondary schools. In primary schools, strong encouragement to respect their fellow students regardless of ethnicity, orientation, social economic status should be done. Not trying to imagine being gay or anything else for that matter. Kids can figure that out later.

No, all LGBTQ+ organisations, literature and individuals must be banned from disposing personal political or social beliefs to minors.

No, albeit that inclusivity should be encouraged but the nature of this funding is not positive and should not be the focus of a government.

Yes but only for those over the age of 16+ over and choose to learn about it and not be forced to do it.

Yes continue to fun, however ensure children/youth are old and mature enough to take what relates to them from the program and focus more on acceptance and encouraging others differences. I agree that teaching this to 7 year olds is ridiculous. This topic is suited more to teenagers closer to graduation.

Primary aged children should not be exposed to any form of sexuality. This should be commenced at High School.

Safe schools should cover all forms of discrimination, body discrimination, racist, etc as well as sexual choice.
but it should be less focused on the fact that you should be this or that, and not try to push being queer onto anyone. a safe school should be just that, a normal school that is inclusive, that doesn't discriminate, that if someone is being bullied or made to feel less the school actually does something so the students do feel safe.

I think funding safe schools' coalition is good, but I think it isn't really relevant to teach it to 7 years olds.

No. But they should make it mandatory to include education of different sexualities as part of a normal sex education curriculum. Gender identity has poor scientific backing and does not belong in a school curriculum.

I believe there should be a program that can help gender-diverse kids feel safe, however, I do not believe that it should be pushed and taught to kids especially when they are young. Let the kids discover on their own that they are gender diverse and learn that it is okay and that they can be safe but on that note, you do not get taught to be heterosexual at school so why should you be taught to be gay? If there is a program to teach kids that it's alright to be gender diverse then we might as well make programs to teach them interracial marriage is okay as well. there is no need to teach or push these programs but it is important to give them a program or group where they do feel safe, learn that it is okay to be who they want to be.

We need LGBT safe schools- including age appropriate sex education that is inclusive of lgbt people- but I had some concerns about the SSC programs alleged content and ideologues.

No, instead incentivise schools to take on the responsibility of preventing homophobia and bullying.

This should be funded only up to kids in high school (year 10 and above) as they can then make their own choices.

Teachers should cover all forms of discrimination. It’s just with specific curriculum, like the concept of gender and consent, can be taught to high schoolers because they’re a bit more mature.

Fund for grades 9-12, nothing lower because kids don't need to be taught about same sex stuff earlier in their lives

I think that the government should restrict it to upper primary school and secondary school but change some of their approaches

Yes, but at an older age

Yes but only secondary schools

Yes, but only for high school

Yes, but for secondary schools only

No, same sex attraction, gender identity etc. are all mental health issues and should be dealt with accordingly

Teach children that differnet sexualities exist and all are normal but don't teach them to imagine they are attracted to the same sex as this may confuse their small and developing minds.

There are only 2 genders. Awareness and acceptance of individuals us important but stop confusing our kids

I don’t think anyone should be teaching children pre puberty anything about sexuality and attraction

We need 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

Yes but only for secondary schools where students are more ready for discussions about sexuality and gender

I think it needs to be a brief discussion and not made a trend or made to be forced onto kids if they don't wish to be involved

they should be teaching tolerence for all people and things. Not teach to imagine! need to have safe spaces for all.

No, "Safe Schools" is code for psychosexual reengineering, and neutering discrimination against boys

Asking children who they are attracted to at age 7 is too young. Education on the topic is important, but not at such a young age.

No, "Safe Schools" is a cover for psychosexual reengineering and neutering discrimination against boys

Yes, but ensure it's introduced as age-appropriate. Don't talk sex - queer or straight - to primary school kids. But still introduce the concept of same-sex relationships. Introduce the concept of gender, but don't force kids to make a decision. Age appropriate is key.

Yes but the content of the program should be closely scrutinised and regularly updated to make sure it is effective.

Yes, but it should only be taught in conjunction with existing PSHE classes and teaching delegated to state and territory governments.

I believe that restricting this to secondary schools is the appropriate course of action because as a bisexual student myself, children between the ages of 4-12 do not need to specifically know and feel compelled to try and identify themselves as being part of the LGBTQ+ community.

Yes, Children need a safe space for their exploration and identity development without fear and ridicule

Yearly 1x education session to promote gender diversity awareness focused on inclusivity only and how students can access support with this topic if needed (in language appropriate to the child’s age). This promotes a school culture of awareness and acceptance at an age appropriate level, without the need to delve in past a child’s maturity level.

I agree it should continue, but only to high school aged students. I think there needs to be wriggle room for primary students, some children do just know and that should be accepted and not judged

Yes, but without influence and mention, only if a child speaks of it then should it be a conversation. It doesn’t need to be so big that kids are confused, they should just feel heard, understood and educated.

No, and abolish all anti-discrimination laws and ban any organisations promoting non-traditional lifestyles

I believe that the Safe Schools Coalition will not be able to financially assist the LGBTIQ people in their lives and studies, but will also be able to act as a good counterweight to discrimination. Additionally, the government can strengthen anti-bullying strategies and take a Stan in protecting students. Whether it is the LGBTIQ student population, groups with different skin, or groups with extreme weight differences, it is often more harmful for them to receive. Therefore, the government should continue to fund the Safe Schools Coalition and combat bullying of vulnerable groups.

if it works then absolutely, if its not working and delivering intended results then it should be abolished and replaced

I believe that it should not be taught about in schools, but it should be acknowledged in a comforting way, and not a resentful one. LGBTQ matters are not necessary to be taught in schools, but accomodation to those who need things (name change, different uniform ect.) should be provided for.