FAMILY AND SOCIETY SSCA apologists try to shrug off media furore
The Safe Schools Coalition Australia (SSCA) program hit the headlines in The Australian newspaper on February 13: “Sexual politics in the classroom”. Where have your kids been surfing today? National Correspondent Natasha Bita reported: “Ostensibly an anti-bullying program, it takes a politically correct approach to sex education. Teachers are told it is “heterosexist” to refer to students as “girls and boys”. Prepubescent children are taught the meaning of terms such as “queer’’, “pansexual”, “sister girl’’ and “trans guy”. Even The Age ran an article by education writer Kevin Donnelly, on February 11: “Safe Schools Coalition is more about LGBTI advocacy…