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SAFE SCHOOLS BY THE BACK DOOR: The Ongoing Sexualisation of Young ChildrenMark Latham's Outsiders 21 June ·
In 2017 the NSW Government ended the teaching of the Safe Schools program.But what if teachers are now being trained to teach gender fluidity (boys becoming girls and girls becoming boys) by other means, as a regular part of their classroom practice?
While the formal stand-alone program might have been abolished, Safe Schools has actually more dangerous, as it has been adopted as a regular part of teacher professional development (PD) and pedagogy in NSW.
The NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) accredits organisations for teacher PD and training.
One such accredited body is ‘Multiverse’, run by someone named Red Ruby Scarlet (who changed her name from Miriam Giugni).
In August 2017 she came to prominence campaigning to rename Father’s Day as ‘Special Person’s Day’, so as not to upset children without dads.
Scarlet now runs NESA-accredited school-teacher training courses, and also accredited courses for preschool/child care staff through the Australian Education and Care Workforce professional body.
She also claims to have had a role in developing the National Quality Framework for early childhood education in Australia.
One of her course offerings is ‘My Friend has Two Mums: Gender and Sexuality in Early Childhood’. It has modules in ‘Queer Thinking in Early Childhood’, ‘Queer Pedagogies’, ‘Intersex Identities’, ‘Living Non-Binary’ and ‘Aboriginal Queerness and Queeness’. This is for teaching children as young as three years old.
Scarlet’s course outline tells participants they will be taught through “a secret Facebook group”.
The only public transparency about the detail of course content comes from those who have provided testimonials as to what they were told and taught.
Tash Cook, the Director of the Cooks Hill Preschool in Newcastle, says the course helped her to look “through a queer lens to build our inclusive practice”.
A Kindergarten teacher, Sylvana Li, says that Scarlett showed her how to “put my queer lens on, especially in children’s play”.
The Director of the Evans Head Preschool, Allyson Cuskelly, said the course involved “reflecting upon the way we use language to reinforce binaries and causing offence or distress and now we have alternatives”. This means alternatives to binary words such as boy/girl, father/mother and man/woman.
Cuskelly also said, “There has been a lot of reflection around celebrations such as Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and the way we cater for diverse family groupings”.
Scarlet has also edited and published a text, straight from the Safe Schools playbook, called ‘The Anti-Bias Approach in Early Childhood’ (2016). It’s 150 pages of gender fluidity propaganda, a textbook for this approach in early childhood education.
Gender is said to be a ‘social construct’ (where children are indoctrinated by society and families into being male or female) rather than a biological, scientific reality.
Red Ruby Scarlet is a self-declared post-structuralist, believing there are no observable truths in life, that everything we see and know about ourselves has been constructed and manipulated by the neo-liberal capitalist, ruling class system.
Her book is pure social engineering, with very young children taught things that should be left to discussion with their parents much later in life.
The ‘star product’ of this process is a 6 year old girl called Liv, who is quoted as saying, “I think that a man and a man, and a girl and a girl, and a gender queer and a gender queer can all marry each other both together.”
This is the type of outcome Safe Schools hoped to achieve.
Here are some further examples from the Anti-Bias book of the sexualisation of small children through their teachers:
At page 60: “When children are involved in family role playing, don’t be afraid to challenge gender and sexuality stereotypes. Present the possibility of boys marrying boys”.
Page 61: “With pictures and posters, try to ensure pictures of families include lesbian and gay families. Also find pictures showing people involved in non-gender-traditional activities”.
Page 61: “Try to ensure that the stories you read include all sorts of families. Don’t be afraid to change the gender of a character from time to time, and use this as a starting point for conversations about difference. Remember that any character in a storybook can be read against the usual assumption by seeing them as transgender.”
Thus preschool storybooks are to have their contents changed to include transgender characters – again, a Safe Schools staple. Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood are to be re-imagined as transgender boys.
Page 65: “Create an anti-heterosexist environment” – that is, all types of LGBTIQ relationships must be taught in classrooms and preschools.
Page 62: Most aspects of child’s play are to be manipulated, as teachers are told to “regularly set up a variety of family structures in the doll house”.
Trying to indoctrinate small children in this way runs against the interests of the children themselves. It inevitably causing confusion and distress about their sexuality and the type of family to which they belong.
In the Multiverse world, children are not seen as youngsters to be cared for according to the values of their parents. Rather, they are treated as malleable entities to be moulded in the early education system for radical political purposes.
Scarlet’s book is also based on a series of false assumptions:
At page 42 that, “By four years of age many children have very sexist understandings of what it means to be male and female in Australian society.”
At page 56 that, children this young “have a sense already” of being “lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender”.
At page 58 that, “very young children are increasingly questioning their assigned gender”.
Then there’s the language control of children. Examples of PC instruction to teachers from the Anti-Bias book include:
Page 61: They should “talk about ‘families’ rather than mothers and fathers”. And “Refer to ‘children’ rather than boys and girls”.
And it is also recommended: “Using gender neutral terms such as ‘children’, ‘people’ or ‘folk’ helps de-emphasise gender as a divider of groups. Think of other ways to divide a group if you need to, such as hair colour, or colour of socks!” (Page 61)
Red Ruby Scarlet also runs the ‘Social Justice Early Childhood’ group, which on its Facebook page is currently running a campaign against ‘Whiteness’ and ‘White Privilege’. This is hardly teaching young people ‘tolerance’, to pick on a certain kind of skin colour. It’s just a different form of bigotry.
On her Multiverse website, Scarlet promotes her ‘Keynote Speeches’ to conferences, including one called “The Ethnicity of a Spoon”.
It is worth noting the contents of her speech to a 2016 QCOSS conference – a case of send in the clowns.
She believes preschoolers should participate in an endless series of ‘Welcome to Country’ ceremonies to build ‘tolerance’. She said she had one group of little kids believing, “Anyone who did anything wrong on Gadigal country, you were dead meat”.
She describes her work as not strictly about education, but “all about social justice”, using a definition from the Labor-aligned activist Mick Dodson.
When she talks about our country she says, “Australia – not its real name”.
She says she has “white privilege” because when she gets out of bed in the morning, nobody looks at her.
She talks about the complexities of life as: “I’m driving a car, I’m running over an ant, yet I’m a vegan”.
She’s into strangely paranoid theories of how life unfolds: “The table we sit at, the spoons we eat from at lunchtime, the colour of the cup you drink from all have a massive impact on who you get to be and who you get to be with.”
When making a presentation, she says she likes to speak two languages, so as to undermine English, which she describes as “the language of business and power”. So there’s not much hope there of children being encouraged and taught to master English in their education.
In short, Scarlet is an eccentric politically-driven figure who should not be allowed anywhere near the NSW education system.
How has someone like her been accredited for anything?
How has she been allowed to teach the teachers new forms of Safe Schools and other wacky political theories?
Instruction of this kind (regarding gender and sexuality) is a job for parents primarily; certainly not for the teachers of 3-4 year olds in NSW preschools and 4-5 year olds in NSW schools.
That someone like Scarlet could be involved so heavily in education in our State tells us, yet again, how standards, focus and purpose have fallen away inside the system.
NSW has the fastest falling school results in the world, and this is one of the shameful reasons why.
NESA must de-register Multiverse and conduct a fall audit of gender fluidity PD and teaching, removing such content and training from the NSW education system.
If the banning of Safe Schools is to mean anything, this must become NSW Government policy from the Premier, Minister, Mark Scott and Peter Shergold (Chair of NESA) down, through to preschool and classroom level.
I urge this immediate action by the Government. I will be campaigning as hard as I can until it happens.
Mark Latham MLC
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