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Current NSW Department of Education and Training policy guidelines for primary schools ban the teaching of any secular based ethics material whatsoever to children who are not attending special religious education (SRE) classes. After banning any educational lessons from being taught to non-religious or minority religious children in this compulsory hour of the school week, they go on to make a special ban against ethics to be taught to these children. The children are deliberately denied an education in ethics. Instead the instruction to school principals is for "minimum supervision", that is, to do the least possible under the law for these children. This is discrimination.

What happens in NSW Ethics classes?

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Who will rid me of turbulent god-botherers? Not our first atheist PM

Two hundred and twenty million dollars would be an impressive chunk of change, even in the huge amount of dough carved out of the federal tax take for education.

Much less impressive however is Julia Gillard is wasting that much on a naked and sadly desperate bribe for the god-bothering lobby.

We’ve all read the words ''chronic'', ''underfunding'' and ''state school system'' placed one after the other so many times now that I hesitate to do so again, lest your eyes roll back in your heads, your brain functions flatline and you all start thinking of Wendy Francis as a reasonable choice for your upper house vote.

The Australian Psychological Society's submission to the consultancy process for the National School Chaplaincy program

 Submission to the Consultation Process for the
National School Chaplaincy Program
(PDF download)
Dr Monica Thielking,
Psychologists in Schools Advisor
m.thielking@psychology.org.au
David Stokes, Senior Manager Professional Practice
d.stokes@psychology.org.au
1 July 2010
Copyright © The Australian Psychological Society Ltd
ABN 23 000 543 788
The Australian Psychological Society Ltd, Level 11, 257 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
July 2010
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Education - Resources

Secular Education - Online Resources
A pro forma letter to the NSW Education Minister (TXT) (PDF) requesting action on a secular ethics program for primary school children

 

Web Resources

RTF and TXT versions of the Education Act 1990

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