The FABIAN Socialists starting mainly with that drongo Whitlam and continued by Juliar Gillard the Witch from Wales have long cherished the idea of dumbing down Australia by replacing essential subjects at school with useless Greeny indoctrination propaganda.



‘State governments have lost control of schools’: Mark Latham
22/07/2020

NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham says state governments have "lost control" of what's happening in schools.

“The evidence presented by Miranda Devine in the Daily Telegraph shows Catholic education systems are losing control of what’s in their schools,” he said.

Public and private schools have “massive issues about woke, left-wing, irrelevant and dangerous content”.

Mr Latham told Sky News host Chris Smith a left-wing agenda was being pushed in classrooms, through teacher professional development programs, and in a top-down manner through entire schools.

The state One Nation leader brought into focus the climate science presented to school children which he said was one-sided and failed to present the views of dissenting scientists or relevant economic arguments against emissions-reduction and the cost of renewable energy.

“If you teach this rubbish, you end up with rubbish results”.

https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6173983569001

Mark Latham blows the lid on the evil FABIAN Socialists sabotaging of our schools.

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SAFE SCHOOLS BY THE BACK DOOR: The Ongoing Sexualisation of Young Children
Mark 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.

Read on here

https://www.facebook.com/MarkLathamsOutsiders/posts/safe-schools-by-the-back-door-the-ongoing-sexualisation-of-young-childrenin-2017/3963009263740383/

Well - binaries are the norm..... men is men and women is women..... the rest can eat it....

................(wait a minute, Igor - can we re-phrase that one?)

Mark Latham is a one man crusader against the insidious WOKE Socialists trying to dumb down Australian kiddies.

This Multiverse program is pure poisonous ideological WOKE Socialist trash.



‘Protect the kids!’: Latham launches NSW schools Bill
By David Ryan -July 30, 2020

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Programs like [the Multiverse program] don’t have the right to indoctrinate young children against their parent’s moral and spiritual values, says Dr Kevin Donnelly.

A radical gender ideology program called ‘Multiverse’ is surfacing in early childhood learning classrooms in New South Wales – often without the knowledge and consent of parents and legal guardians.
The Multiverse program – which is NSW Government accredited – is a pedagogy for alternative sexual and gender identities for young children but the age appropriateness of the content as well as the lack of transparency with parents over the content is causing community concerns.

A member of the NSW Legislative Council, Mark Latham, told The Catholic Weekly he believes Multiverse is a harmful and inappropriate form of political indoctrination.

“THEY RUN [MULTIVERSE] ON A CLOSED FACEBOOK GROUP WHICH OBVIOUSLY RAISES FURTHER CONCERNS OVER WHAT IS GOING ON,” SAID MARK LATHAM.

“Schools are there to serve the parents not the other way around.”

Mr Latham said he plans to present a Bill to the NSW Legislative Assembly to keep programs such as Multiverse away from early learning.

“I am going to be moving a Private Member’s Bill in the Upper House that the NSW education system must have a standard in teaching. Ethics, morality, social and moral development must be consistent with the wishes of parents,” he said.

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Mr Latham said he plans to present a Bill to the NSW Legislative Assembly to keep programs such as Multiverse away from early learning. Photo: Giovanni Portelli

Dr Kevin Donnelly, a Professor of Education at Australian Catholic University, likened exposing children to adult themes of sexuality as a form of child abuse and emphasised the lack of respect Multiverse has for the express wishes of many parents to raise their children in line with their own beliefs.


“Early childhood should be a time of innocence, play and joy,” he said.

“Programs like this don’t have the right to indoctrinate young children against their parent’s moral and spiritual values.”

Dr Donnelly re-iterated that bullying and discrimination have no place in the classroom but that the goals of Multiverse were more political indoctrination than anti-bullying.

“CATHOLIC TEACHING SAYS THERE IS NO ROOM FOR BULLYING AND UNFAIR DISCRIMINATION BUT THIS PROGRAM IS NOT ABOUT STOPPING BULLYING BUT RATHER A RADICAL AGENDA OVERTHROWING THE STATUS QUO [AND] THIS IS A FORM OF POLITICALLY CORRECT GROUPTHINK WHERE IT IS INDOCTRINATION. I AM VERY MUCH AGAINST IT.”

Australian Family Association President Terri Kelleher said that normal childhood psychosexual development is being interfered with and that teachings on human sexuality should be guided by the wishes of parents.

“Human sexual identity is a very close, intimate and personal matter dealt with by the parents first and foremost,” she said.

“Normal psychosexual development is being interfered with. Children are exposed at a pre-school level and it’s quite insidious.”

https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/protect-the-kids-latham-launches-nsw-schools-bill/

He was one of those woke socialists. I guess the political spotlight proved addictive.

Has BH just aWOKE ?   He should be at work pushing that Multiverse Program WOKE Socialist propaganda.

juliar commenting on education is like Donald Trump commenting on military service.

Aw Gee! Sounds like Greggy's blood calcium is up again. Probably his cholesterol and blood glucose is at danger levels too. Wonder how long he has got ?

Blood calcium?


What?

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 11:20am:

Blood calcium? What?

I introduced juliar to a new term the other day - 'coronary calcium score' - and it seems to have confused him a bit.

Well, maybe more than a bit.

That assumption works on juliar not being confused in the first place.

BH, Greggy is so uninformed about his impending heart attack it will come as quite a shock to his hardened arteries. At least then he won't have to endure the agony of becoming a type 1 diabetic.

BH, why aren't you at work or are you still waiting for your Chinese students to get out of Virus quarantine ?

juliar wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 11:36am:

BH, Greggy is so uninformed about his impending heart attack it will come as quite a shock to his hardened arteries. At least then he won't have to endure the agony of becoming a type 1 diabetic. BH, why aren't you at work or are you still waiting for your Chinese students to get out of Virus quarantine ?

Seriously, you need to steer clear of pathophysiology as much as anything else you comment on here.

The agony of being a Type 1 DM? Really? Greg is realistically too old to become a Type 1 diabetic.

BH, you are joking.

Anyone can become a type 1 diabetic if they persist with a high sugar diet like Greggy and become a Type 2 Diabetic and then when their pancreas fails to produce insulin they will become a Type 1 Diabetic and have to inject insulin into themselves.

juliar wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 11:46am:

BH, you are joking. Anyone can become a type 1 diabetic if they persist with a high sugar diet like Greggy and become a Type 2 Diabetic and then when their pancreas fails to produce insulin they will become a Type 1 Diabetic and have to inject insulin into themselves.

No. Thats not considered a Type 1 DM.

juliar wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 11:46am:

BH, you are joking. Anyone can become a type 1 diabetic if they persist with a high sugar diet ...

Wow.  You really are stupid.

"Type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune condition in which the immune system is activated to destroy the cells in the pancreas which produce insulin.

"We do not know what causes this auto-immune reaction. Type 1 diabetes is not linked to modifiable lifestyle factors. There is no cure and it cannot be prevented."

"The exact cause of type 1 diabetes is not yet known, but we do know it has a strong family link and cannot be prevented.

"We also know that it has nothing to do with lifestyle".

https://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/type-1-diabetes

Greggy is feeling the shooting pain of fear now that his bleary eyes have been opened.

Type 1 diabetes can be misdiagnosed as type 2. Doesn't really matter as both are a death sentence.

What's your blood pressure ? 220 / 170 ?  Cholesterol over the moon in a blood test ?  Bones brittle from calcium moving to the blood to lower blood acid ?

Where is Doctor BH ?  But then he only lectures - he doesn't disgnose.

juliar wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 12:00pm:

Greggy is feeling the shooting pain of fear now that his bleary eyes have been opened. Type 1 diabetes can be misdiagnosed as type 2. Doesn't really matter as both are a death sentence. What's your blood pressure ? 220 / 170 ?  Cholesterol over the moon in a blood test ?  Bones brittle from calcium moving to the blood to lower blood acid ? Where is Doctor BH ?  But then he only lectures - he doesn't disgnose.

Type 1 diabetes can be misdiagnosed as type 2


Since when?

juliar wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 12:00pm:

Greggy is feeling the shooting pain of fear now that his bleary eyes have been opened. Type 1 diabetes can be misdiagnosed as type 2. Doesn't really matter as both are a death sentence. What's your blood pressure ? 220 / 170 ?  Cholesterol over the moon in a blood test ?  Bones brittle from calcium moving to the blood to lower blood acid ? Where is Doctor BH ?  But then he only lectures - he doesn't disgnose.

Bones brittle from calcium moving to the blood to lower blood acid ?


And no.  Calcium doesn't move to blood to lower blood acid.

Dr BH with a failed diagnosis.

So, type 2 diabetes does not become type 1 diabetes.

But it is possible for someone’s type of diabetes to be misdiagnosed.

In other words, someone may be told they have type 2 diabetes, but they actually have type 1 diabetes.

Here’s why: diabetes symptoms can be the same in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

For example, if your blood sugar is high, you may feel tired and thirsty and you might lose some weight.

If you go to the doctor because of your symptoms, you may be quickly diagnosed with type 2 and prescribed a diabetes pill to take.

This is more likely to happen if you’re an adult and if you’re overweight or obese (and another misconception is that everyone with type 1 diabetes is thin and everyone with type 2 diabetes is overweight or obese).

Tests used to diagnose both types of diabetes include checking an A1C level, checking a fasting blood glucose level or doing an oral glucose tolerance test.

If a doctor isn’t sure if you have type 1 diabetes, he or she may do other tests, such as checking for antibodies that attack beta cells in the pancreas, or c-peptide, which shows how much insulin the body is making.

If a doctor isn’t sure if you have type 1 diabetes, he or she may do other tests, such as checking for antibodies that attack beta cells in the pancreas, or c-peptide, which shows how much insulin the body is making.


So given that, how is it going to be misdiagnosed. Type 2 DM have hyperinsulinaemia. Whereas in Type 1 this very little if any insulin being made.

Well I have straightened BH's misconceptions out a bit.

Now another failed diagnosis by Dr BH.

A test for calcium in the blood checks the calcium level in the body that is not stored in the bones. Calcium is the most common mineral in the body and one of the most important. The body needs it to build and fix bones and teeth, help nerves work, make muscles squeeze together, help blood clot, and help the heart to work. Almost all of the calcium in the body is stored in bone.

Normally the level of calcium in the blood is carefully controlled.

When blood calcium levels get low (hypocalcemia), the bones release calcium to bring it back to a good blood level.

When blood calcium levels get high (hypercalcemia), the extra calcium is stored in the bones or passed out of the body in urine and stool.

The amount of calcium in the body depends on the amount of:

Calcium you get in your food.
Calcium and vitamin D your intestines absorb.
Phosphate in the body.
Certain hormones, including parathyroid hormone, calcitonin, and estrogen in the body.
Vitamin D and these hormones help control the amount of calcium in the body.

They also control the amount of calcium you absorb from food and the amount passed from the body in urine. The blood levels of phosphate are closely linked to calcium levels and they work in opposite ways: As blood calcium levels get high, phosphate levels get low, and the opposite is also true.

It is important to get the right amount of calcium in your food because the body loses calcium every day. Foods rich in calcium include dairy products (milk, cheese), eggs, fish, green vegetables, and fruit. Most people who have low or high levels of calcium do not have any symptoms. Calcium levels need to be very high or low to cause symptoms.

So, type 2 diabetes does not become type 1 diabetes.


And no Type 2 does not become Type 1.

Type 1 is auto-immune
Type 2 is related to lifestyle causing the pancreas to have high insulin release. This leads to insulin resistance in the cells that have the receptors for insulin (skeletal muscle, adipose and liver). In some patients, because of the prolonged high insulin release, the beta cells of the pancreas become tired and then decrease their insulin production, and these patients need to inject insulin as well, but it is not considered Type 1 DM.

juliar wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 12:00pm:

Greggy is feeling the shooting pain of fear now that his bleary eyes have been opened. Type 1 diabetes can be misdiagnosed as type 2. Doesn't really matter as both are a death sentence. What's your blood pressure ? 220 / 170 ?  Cholesterol over the moon in a blood test ?  Bones brittle from calcium moving to the blood to lower blood acid ? Where is Doctor BH ?  But then he only lectures - he doesn't disgnose.

"Anyone can become a type 1 diabetic if they persist with a high sugar diet ..."

Incorrect.

juliar wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 12:10pm:

Well I have straightened BH's misconceptions out a bit. Now another failed diagnosis by Dr BH. A test for calcium in the blood checks the calcium level in the body that is not stored in the bones. Calcium is the most common mineral in the body and one of the most important. The body needs it to build and fix bones and teeth, help nerves work, make muscles squeeze together, help blood clot, and help the heart to work. Almost all of the calcium in the body is stored in bone. Normally the level of calcium in the blood is carefully controlled. When blood calcium levels get low (hypocalcemia), the bones release calcium to bring it back to a good blood level. When blood calcium levels get high (hypercalcemia), the extra calcium is stored in the bones or passed out of the body in urine and stool. The amount of calcium in the body depends on the amount of: Calcium you get in your food. Calcium and vitamin D your intestines absorb. Phosphate in the body. Certain hormones, including parathyroid hormone, calcitonin, and estrogen in the body. Vitamin D and these hormones help control the amount of calcium in the body. They also control the amount of calcium you absorb from food and the amount passed from the body in urine. The blood levels of phosphate are closely linked to calcium levels and they work in opposite ways: As blood calcium levels get high, phosphate levels get low, and the opposite is also true. It is important to get the right amount of calcium in your food because the body loses calcium every day. Foods rich in calcium include dairy products (milk, cheese), eggs, fish, green vegetables, and fruit. Most people who have low or high levels of calcium do not have any symptoms. Calcium levels need to be very high or low to cause symptoms.

Thanks Captain Obvious. 

But how does any of that show that and I quote "Bones brittle from calcium moving to the blood to lower blood acid ?"

But Greggy your high sugar diet WILL cause Type 2 Diabetes which will eventually lead to pancreas failure and you are in the same situation as a Type 1 Diabetes and have to inject insulin - a virtual death sentence.

And the high sugar diet will cause obesity which will lead to high cholesterol which will lead to hardened arteries and a heart attack and probable death.

Do you have life assurance ?


Oh BH haven't you ever heard of pH being used to measure acidity ? The calcium is used to lower the pH of the blood.

juliar wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 12:15pm:

But Greggy your high sugar diet WILL cause Type 2 Diabetes which will eventually lead to pancreas failure and you are in the same situation as a Type 1 Diabetes and have to inject insulin - a virtual death sentence. ?

That doesn't always happen.

And you mean Diabetes mellitus

juliar wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 12:15pm:

Oh BH haven't you ever heard of pH being used to measure acidity ? The calcium is used to lower the pH of the blood.

Yes, pH is used to measure acidity. No calcium doesn't lower the pH of the blood. You're thinking of carbon dioxide.

BH you aren't a GP because a GP would say it WILL happen to frighten the sick patient with blood glucose levels up around 12.

If the pancreas is abused for long periods it will fail as it can only produce a given amount of insulin before it fails. And the patient will become insulin resistant.

In other words they will become very sick and may as well die.

If the pancreas is abused for long periods it will fail as it can only produce a given amount of insulin before it fails. And the patient will become insulin resistant.



Insulin resistance is not about the pancreas failing in how much insulin it produces
Insulin resistance is when cells in your muscles, body fat and liver start resisting or ignoring the signal that the hormone insulin is trying to send out—which is to grab glucose out of the bloodstream and put it into our cells. Glucose, also known as blood sugar, is the body's main source of fuel

Diabetes 1 + 2 looks like you can have both.


One thing I hear occasionally among type 1 diabetics is, “Well, at least I can’t get type 2 diabetes!” This reasoning makes sense if you think only about the two diabetes as two points along a single spectrum, with type 2 diabetes being a metabolic disease that is “the less severe” type 1 diabetes.

I felt compelled to answer: Yes, yes you can. You absolutely can. Yes you can have type 1 and type 2 diabetes at the same time. You’re unlikely to get diagnosed with type 2 diabetes if you already have type 1, because it’s hard to measure the difference in blood sugar values, but you can still suffer from both types of diabetes simultaneously.

Consider: type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder characterized by the T cell mediated destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells. In other words, no beta cells.

Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterized by insulin resistance in many of the cells in the body, and can progress to stress-induced (we think) death of the beta cells.

So, if your beta cells are already gone as a result of type 1 diabetes, they can’t die again because of type 2. But you can definitely become insulin resistant, due to obesity, genetic predisposition, and/or hyperinsulinemia.

As if type 1 diabetes weren’t hard enough– consider doing it while your body is insulin resistant as well. Ugh. Don’t do it, people– watch your weight, stay active, eat well. Avoid type 2 diabetes, especially if you’re a type 1 diabetic.

Thats Type 1 leading to Type 2, not Type 2 leading to Type 1



Take note boys and girls, this is why education is important, you don't want to be juliar when you grow up

Please tell me you're not a med student, juliar.

Greggy and BH are confused and BH is playing with words I am giving him.

But now a failed diagnosis re blood pH and Bones. Where Greggy has a continuing problem with probably brittle bones.


Our skeleton and blood acidity (pH)
As I delve deeper into my nutritional therapy studies I am discovering the many mechaisms our body has to maintain homeostasis - stability. In this article discover the fascinating way in which our bones help regulate blood acidity levels through the tight and controlled release of stored calcium.
The body’s skeletal system serves a multitude of functions far in excess of providing structural support. One of they key functions of the skeleton is to act as a storage facility for our body’s mineral supply and through this serve as a key regulator in our blood pH range. Minerals make up roughly about 4% of the body and are essential, meaning they must come from our food. We require a range of macro and microminerals for healthy bone structure, metabolic function and cellular health, and an excess or deficiency even on a small scale can have significant health consequences. This article specifically discusses the way in which the skeleton and mineral levels, which help control blood pH, interact.

Mineral reserves are stored in the bones
Our skeleton is the primary storage facility for minerals in the body, which is where these mineral reserves are most heavily concentrated. Many different mineral salts are deposited into the extracellular matrix of the bones, which then hardens or calcifies to form hard bone. Bone formation is referred to as ossification. Calcium is by far the most abundant mineral in the body, and 99% of our calcium reserves are stored in our bones. These calcium reserves are a key player in regulation of the pH in the blood. Calcium is an alkalising mineral and is balanced by phosphorous, an acidifying mineral.

Blood pH balance
pH refers to how acidic or alkaline something is, a critical measure throughout the body for maintaining homeostasis. Our body regulates pH in every tissue and organ very tightly, as a fluctuation either way (ie: becoming to acidic or too alkaline) can be deadly. Blood pH regulated by the mineral stores in our bones, particularly calcium, which is an alkalising (de-acidifying) mineral.

Blood pH is tightly controlled through the release of stored calcium from our bones. If blood pH falls as a the result of some kind of stimulus (ie blood becomes too acidic) then the bones release calcium reserves in order to bring the pH back up (ie re-alkalise the blood).

If the pH rises and the blood becomes slightly too alkaline, then calcium will be deposited into the bone to bring the acidity of the blood. This bone/blood pH feedback loop is a critical mechanism for maintaining blood homeostasis.

Like all homeostatic functions in the body, calcium is balanced by phosphorous, which is a key acidifying mineral. If the blood becomes too alkali then it is phosphorous that is released from the extracellular matrix of the bones.


Our bones play a critical role in regulating blood pH levels by releasing stored calcium when levels become low.
Bone remodelling
As mentioned, bone is like any other tissue in our body and is continuously regenerating as minerals are deposited and released from the extracellular matrix. This process is called bone remodelling and involves three different bone cells types.

Osteoblasts: are the bone forming cells that turn cartilage into new bone;
Osteocytes: our primary bone cells responsible for the maintenance of bone structure; and
Osteoclasts: cells responsible for the breakdown of calcium and reabsorption into the blood.
Additionally, osteogenic cells are bone stem cells and are the only bone cells that undergo cell division. It is these cells that become osteoblasts, which go onto form new bone.

From the list above we see that osteoclasts are responsible for the release of calcified minerals into the bone when the blood pH begins to drop, and head towards acidic. This process is regulated by the Parathyroid gland, which is responsible for detecting changing levels of pH in the blood.

When slight changes occur (as the result of any kind of stimulus) in the blood pH levels, the parathyroid gland (which is part of the thyroid gland) releases parathyroid hormone. Parathyroid hormone signals to the osteoclasts to get to work breaking down bone cells, thereby releasing the stored calcium into the blood. This ultimately brings the pH back up (re-alkalises) towards neutral and restores homeostasis. In addition to extracting stored calcium from the bones, parathyroid hormone also reduces calcium excretion through urine and pulls it from digestion.

Osteoclasts are the bone cells involved when blood pH tends towards acidic and calcium stores are broken down and released. If the blood becomes more alkali (ie pH rises) for some reason, then it is the osteoblast cells that are involved. These cells are responsible for depositing minerals into the extracellular matrix where they are hardened/calcified and become bone.

Calcium co-factors
There are a number of co-factors that influence our body’s ability to store calcium and then access these stores again as required. Vitamin D is a particularly important co-factor as it works with parathyroid hormone to increase calcium levels in blood serum in response to the signal from the parathyroid gland.

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 1:21am:

Well - binaries are the norm..... men is men and women is women..... the rest can eat it.... ................(wait a minute, Igor - can we re-phrase that one?)

Check this out Grapps.

Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively.

But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.”

Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility.

Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves.

Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, Shrier finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters.

A generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path.

https://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters/dp/1684510317

https://anograiner.com/skeleton-blood-acidity-ph/


I can only assume you got it from here. I would warn you this person is afunctional nutritionist and a member of  The Nutritional Therapy Association.


Its not what you'd call the greatest source of unbiased info.

Mind you I'm not arguing that there isn't a relationship between pH and calcium, just that you have it the wrong way round. pH alters calcium levels, not calcium alters pH

The school system has been taken over by useless females.

Most have never actually done anything but gone to school, then uni, then teaching.

They have no idea about the real world.

Then they ostracized males to ensure their matriarch control is maintained.

They teach "toxic masvulinty" in an attempt to feminize males and to give women even more control.

They are basically frightened by men and strength.

Then they come up with this latest gender identity bull shite.

The education system needs a clean out of these worthless female male haters.

They demanded 50% women in everything
Ok
Let's have a minimum 50% male teachers in every school

Valkie wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 1:29pm:

The school system has been taken over by useless females. Most have never actually done anything but gone to school, then uni, then teaching. They have no idea about the real world. Then they ostracized males to ensure their matriarch control is maintained. They teach "toxic masvulinty" in an attempt to feminize males and to give women even more control. They are basically frightened by men and strength. Then they come up with this latest gender identity bull shite. The education system needs a clean out of these worthless female male haters. They demanded 50% women in everything Ok Let's have a minimum 50% male teachers in every school

Any evidence of this, or is this just its the vibe thing.

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 1:57pm:

Valkie wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:29pm: The school system has been taken over by useless females. Most have never actually done anything but gone to school, then uni, then teaching. They have no idea about the real world. Then they ostracized males to ensure their matriarch control is maintained. They teach "toxic masvulinty" in an attempt to feminize males and to give women even more control. They are basically frightened by men and strength. Then they come up with this latest gender identity bull shite. The education system needs a clean out of these worthless female male haters. They demanded 50% women in everything Ok Let's have a minimum 50% male teachers in every school Any evidence of this, or is this just its the vibe thing.

Do you have school aged children so you can share your personal observations?

Gordon wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 2:28pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:57pm: Valkie wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:29pm: The school system has been taken over by useless females. Most have never actually done anything but gone to school, then uni, then teaching. They have no idea about the real world. Then they ostracized males to ensure their matriarch control is maintained. They teach "toxic masvulinty" in an attempt to feminize males and to give women even more control. They are basically frightened by men and strength. Then they come up with this latest gender identity bull shite. The education system needs a clean out of these worthless female male haters. They demanded 50% women in everything Ok Let's have a minimum 50% male teachers in every school Any evidence of this, or is this just its the vibe thing. Do you have school aged children so you can share your personal observations?

I wasn't making a claim, so thus don't actually have to provide evidence. Has Valkie got evidence?

Gordon wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 12:47pm:

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:21am: Well - binaries are the norm..... men is men and women is women..... the rest can eat it.... ................(wait a minute, Igor - can we re-phrase that one?) Check this out Grapps. Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively. But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.” Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility. Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves. Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, Shrier finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters. A generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path. https://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters/dp/1684510317

Interesting - there are a few books I want to buy, and I haven't used my Amazon account for ages...

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 2:57pm:

Gordon wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:28pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:57pm: Valkie wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:29pm: The school system has been taken over by useless females. Most have never actually done anything but gone to school, then uni, then teaching. They have no idea about the real world. Then they ostracized males to ensure their matriarch control is maintained. They teach "toxic masvulinty" in an attempt to feminize males and to give women even more control. They are basically frightened by men and strength. Then they come up with this latest gender identity bull shite. The education system needs a clean out of these worthless female male haters. They demanded 50% women in everything Ok Let's have a minimum 50% male teachers in every school Any evidence of this, or is this just its the vibe thing. Do you have school aged children so you can share your personal observations? I wasn't making a claim, so thus don't actually have to provide evidence. Has Valkie got evidence?

Actually - there's been a lot of stuff posted over the years about how men were driven out of teaching.  As I said - when once traveling in NZ, I came across an article that gave three examples of how male teachers were having their careers and lives smashed with false complaints, and were being steadily driven out of their chosen profession - and that was in 'trendy' Nu Zulland.

One of three examples I clearly remember was one teacher being accused of sexual misconduct, by a girl who wanted a better mark and tried blackmail.  It cost him years on suspension to clear his name, cost him his marriage and his home etc - and he blankly stated he would never go back to teaching.

This current trend of 'guilt by accusation' MUST be brought to a screeching halt.... and full reparations made to those harmed by this false paradigm of 'justice'.  Then we must begin on restoring balance to such areas as education, public service, and so forth... then we can begin to look at reparations there as well.......

For Brother Brian - I am well aware, from discussion with a PO, that 25% of Aboriginals are in prison for "DV offences" - that can include non-violent actions to which authorities respond with violence against the man, and then have a 'need' to cover up by falsely charging him with Usual Suspect offences - the Aboriginal Trifecta.

I blame the 'feminists' - you?

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 3:08pm:

Gordon wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 12:47pm: Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:21am: Well - binaries are the norm..... men is men and women is women..... the rest can eat it.... ................(wait a minute, Igor - can we re-phrase that one?) Check this out Grapps. Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively. But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.” Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility. Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves. Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, Shrier finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters. A generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path. https://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters/dp/1684510317 Interesting - there are a few books I want to buy, and I haven't used my Amazon account for ages...

Just listen to this, you'll get the guts of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtftWcgXjdg

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 3:16pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:57pm: Gordon wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:28pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:57pm: Valkie wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:29pm: The school system has been taken over by useless females. Most have never actually done anything but gone to school, then uni, then teaching. They have no idea about the real world. Then they ostracized males to ensure their matriarch control is maintained. They teach "toxic masvulinty" in an attempt to feminize males and to give women even more control. They are basically frightened by men and strength. Then they come up with this latest gender identity bull shite. The education system needs a clean out of these worthless female male haters. They demanded 50% women in everything Ok Let's have a minimum 50% male teachers in every school Any evidence of this, or is this just its the vibe thing. Do you have school aged children so you can share your personal observations? I wasn't making a claim, so thus don't actually have to provide evidence. Has Valkie got evidence? Actually - there's been a lot of stuff posted over the years about how men were driven out of teaching.  As I said - when once traveling in NZ, I came across an article that gave three examples of how male teachers were having their careers and lives smashed with false complaints, and were being steadily driven out of their chosen profession - and that was in 'trendy' Nu Zulland. One of three examples I clearly remember was one teacher being accused of sexual misconduct, by a girl who wanted a better mark and tried blackmail.  It cost him years on suspension to clear his name, cost him his marriage and his home etc - and he blankly stated he would never go back to teaching. This current trend of 'guilt by accusation' MUST be brought to a screeching halt.... and full reparations made to those harmed by this false paradigm of 'justice'.  Then we must begin on restoring balance to such areas as education, public service, and so forth... then we can begin to look at reparations there as well....... For Brother Brian - I am well aware, from discussion with a PO, that 25% of Aboriginals are in prison for "DV offences" - that can include non-violent actions to which authorities respond with violence against the man, and then have a 'need' to cover up by falsely charging him with Usual Suspect offences - the Aboriginal Trifecta. I blame the 'feminists' - you?

I blame anecdotes.

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 3:16pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:57pm: Gordon wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:28pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:57pm: Valkie wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:29pm: The school system has been taken over by useless females. Most have never actually done anything but gone to school, then uni, then teaching. They have no idea about the real world. Then they ostracized males to ensure their matriarch control is maintained. They teach "toxic masvulinty" in an attempt to feminize males and to give women even more control. They are basically frightened by men and strength. Then they come up with this latest gender identity bull shite. The education system needs a clean out of these worthless female male haters. They demanded 50% women in everything Ok Let's have a minimum 50% male teachers in every school Any evidence of this, or is this just its the vibe thing. Do you have school aged children so you can share your personal observations? I wasn't making a claim, so thus don't actually have to provide evidence. Has Valkie got evidence? Actually - there's been a lot of stuff posted over the years about how men were driven out of teaching.  As I said - when once traveling in NZ, I came across an article that gave three examples of how male teachers were having their careers and lives smashed with false complaints, and were being steadily driven out of their chosen profession - and that was in 'trendy' Nu Zulland. One of three examples I clearly remember was one teacher being accused of sexual misconduct, by a girl who wanted a better mark and tried blackmail.  It cost him years on suspension to clear his name, cost him his marriage and his home etc - and he blankly stated he would never go back to teaching. This current trend of 'guilt by accusation' MUST be brought to a screeching halt.... and full reparations made to those harmed by this false paradigm of 'justice'.  Then we must begin on restoring balance to such areas as education, public service, and so forth... then we can begin to look at reparations there as well....... For Brother Brian - I am well aware, from discussion with a PO, that 25% of Aboriginals are in prison for "DV offences" - that can include non-violent actions to which authorities respond with violence against the man, and then have a 'need' to cover up by falsely charging him with Usual Suspect offences - the Aboriginal Trifecta. I blame the 'feminists' - you?

My observations of my daughters primary school is that girls are given more academic attention than boys, and I came to that conclusion and had it verified by parents who had both male and female children at the school before I even had a male child, so I had no dog in the fight.

Overall that's the case but it's by a teacher by teacher basis and enough that it skews it against boys.

Gordon wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 3:25pm:

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:16pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:57pm: Gordon wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:28pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:57pm: Valkie wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:29pm: The school system has been taken over by useless females. Most have never actually done anything but gone to school, then uni, then teaching. They have no idea about the real world. Then they ostracized males to ensure their matriarch control is maintained. They teach "toxic masvulinty" in an attempt to feminize males and to give women even more control. They are basically frightened by men and strength. Then they come up with this latest gender identity bull shite. The education system needs a clean out of these worthless female male haters. They demanded 50% women in everything Ok Let's have a minimum 50% male teachers in every school Any evidence of this, or is this just its the vibe thing. Do you have school aged children so you can share your personal observations? I wasn't making a claim, so thus don't actually have to provide evidence. Has Valkie got evidence? Actually - there's been a lot of stuff posted over the years about how men were driven out of teaching.  As I said - when once traveling in NZ, I came across an article that gave three examples of how male teachers were having their careers and lives smashed with false complaints, and were being steadily driven out of their chosen profession - and that was in 'trendy' Nu Zulland. One of three examples I clearly remember was one teacher being accused of sexual misconduct, by a girl who wanted a better mark and tried blackmail.  It cost him years on suspension to clear his name, cost him his marriage and his home etc - and he blankly stated he would never go back to teaching. This current trend of 'guilt by accusation' MUST be brought to a screeching halt.... and full reparations made to those harmed by this false paradigm of 'justice'.  Then we must begin on restoring balance to such areas as education, public service, and so forth... then we can begin to look at reparations there as well....... For Brother Brian - I am well aware, from discussion with a PO, that 25% of Aboriginals are in prison for "DV offences" - that can include non-violent actions to which authorities respond with violence against the man, and then have a 'need' to cover up by falsely charging him with Usual Suspect offences - the Aboriginal Trifecta. I blame the 'feminists' - you? My observations of my daughters primary school is that girls are given more academic attention than boys, and I came to that conclusion and had it verified by parents who had both male and female children at the school. I had no dog in the fight as I came to that conclusion before I even had a male child. Overall that's the case but it's by a teacher by teacher basis and enough that it skews it against boys.

To me though that seems a different  education issue than the one Valkie brings up.

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 3:21pm:

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:16pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:57pm: Gordon wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:28pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:57pm: Valkie wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:29pm: The school system has been taken over by useless females. Most have never actually done anything but gone to school, then uni, then teaching. They have no idea about the real world. Then they ostracized males to ensure their matriarch control is maintained. They teach "toxic masvulinty" in an attempt to feminize males and to give women even more control. They are basically frightened by men and strength. Then they come up with this latest gender identity bull shite. The education system needs a clean out of these worthless female male haters. They demanded 50% women in everything Ok Let's have a minimum 50% male teachers in every school Any evidence of this, or is this just its the vibe thing. Do you have school aged children so you can share your personal observations? I wasn't making a claim, so thus don't actually have to provide evidence. Has Valkie got evidence? Actually - there's been a lot of stuff posted over the years about how men were driven out of teaching.  As I said - when once traveling in NZ, I came across an article that gave three examples of how male teachers were having their careers and lives smashed with false complaints, and were being steadily driven out of their chosen profession - and that was in 'trendy' Nu Zulland. One of three examples I clearly remember was one teacher being accused of sexual misconduct, by a girl who wanted a better mark and tried blackmail.  It cost him years on suspension to clear his name, cost him his marriage and his home etc - and he blankly stated he would never go back to teaching. This current trend of 'guilt by accusation' MUST be brought to a screeching halt.... and full reparations made to those harmed by this false paradigm of 'justice'.  Then we must begin on restoring balance to such areas as education, public service, and so forth... then we can begin to look at reparations there as well....... For Brother Brian - I am well aware, from discussion with a PO, that 25% of Aboriginals are in prison for "DV offences" - that can include non-violent actions to which authorities respond with violence against the man, and then have a 'need' to cover up by falsely charging him with Usual Suspect offences - the Aboriginal Trifecta. I blame the 'feminists' - you? I blame anecdotes.

'domestic violence laws' that permit brutal and mainly unwarranted assaults on men on the basis of any complaint, were pushed through on the basis of 'anecdotal evidence' gathered from 'remote Aboriginal communities' seriously affected by violence etc.. and were then extrapolated to our entire population, leading to countless violent assaults, physical, judicial, psychological, social and financial being made against countless innocent men.

So now - when you see opposition to the feminist supremacist thrusts, you label any such as merely 'anecdotal' and thus of no real value?

How the worms turn.... and our grandfathers who fought to defend civilisation turn over in their graves at what the politicians have done to this nation and its once proud men.

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 3:27pm:

Gordon wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:25pm: Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:16pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:57pm: Gordon wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:28pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:57pm: Valkie wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:29pm: The school system has been taken over by useless females. Most have never actually done anything but gone to school, then uni, then teaching. They have no idea about the real world. Then they ostracized males to ensure their matriarch control is maintained. They teach "toxic masvulinty" in an attempt to feminize males and to give women even more control. They are basically frightened by men and strength. Then they come up with this latest gender identity bull shite. The education system needs a clean out of these worthless female male haters. They demanded 50% women in everything Ok Let's have a minimum 50% male teachers in every school Any evidence of this, or is this just its the vibe thing. Do you have school aged children so you can share your personal observations? I wasn't making a claim, so thus don't actually have to provide evidence. Has Valkie got evidence? Actually - there's been a lot of stuff posted over the years about how men were driven out of teaching.  As I said - when once traveling in NZ, I came across an article that gave three examples of how male teachers were having their careers and lives smashed with false complaints, and were being steadily driven out of their chosen profession - and that was in 'trendy' Nu Zulland. One of three examples I clearly remember was one teacher being accused of sexual misconduct, by a girl who wanted a better mark and tried blackmail.  It cost him years on suspension to clear his name, cost him his marriage and his home etc - and he blankly stated he would never go back to teaching. This current trend of 'guilt by accusation' MUST be brought to a screeching halt.... and full reparations made to those harmed by this false paradigm of 'justice'.  Then we must begin on restoring balance to such areas as education, public service, and so forth... then we can begin to look at reparations there as well....... For Brother Brian - I am well aware, from discussion with a PO, that 25% of Aboriginals are in prison for "DV offences" - that can include non-violent actions to which authorities respond with violence against the man, and then have a 'need' to cover up by falsely charging him with Usual Suspect offences - the Aboriginal Trifecta. I blame the 'feminists' - you? My observations of my daughters primary school is that girls are given more academic attention than boys, and I came to that conclusion and had it verified by parents who had both male and female children at the school. I had no dog in the fight as I came to that conclusion before I even had a male child. Overall that's the case but it's by a teacher by teacher basis and enough that it skews it against boys. To me though that seems a different  education issue than the one Valkie brings up.

Did I say I agree with Valkie?

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 3:28pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:21pm: Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:16pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:57pm: Gordon wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:28pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:57pm: Valkie wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:29pm: The school system has been taken over by useless females. Most have never actually done anything but gone to school, then uni, then teaching. They have no idea about the real world. Then they ostracized males to ensure their matriarch control is maintained. They teach "toxic masvulinty" in an attempt to feminize males and to give women even more control. They are basically frightened by men and strength. Then they come up with this latest gender identity bull shite. The education system needs a clean out of these worthless female male haters. They demanded 50% women in everything Ok Let's have a minimum 50% male teachers in every school Any evidence of this, or is this just its the vibe thing. Do you have school aged children so you can share your personal observations? I wasn't making a claim, so thus don't actually have to provide evidence. Has Valkie got evidence? Actually - there's been a lot of stuff posted over the years about how men were driven out of teaching.  As I said - when once traveling in NZ, I came across an article that gave three examples of how male teachers were having their careers and lives smashed with false complaints, and were being steadily driven out of their chosen profession - and that was in 'trendy' Nu Zulland. One of three examples I clearly remember was one teacher being accused of sexual misconduct, by a girl who wanted a better mark and tried blackmail.  It cost him years on suspension to clear his name, cost him his marriage and his home etc - and he blankly stated he would never go back to teaching. This current trend of 'guilt by accusation' MUST be brought to a screeching halt.... and full reparations made to those harmed by this false paradigm of 'justice'.  Then we must begin on restoring balance to such areas as education, public service, and so forth... then we can begin to look at reparations there as well....... For Brother Brian - I am well aware, from discussion with a PO, that 25% of Aboriginals are in prison for "DV offences" - that can include non-violent actions to which authorities respond with violence against the man, and then have a 'need' to cover up by falsely charging him with Usual Suspect offences - the Aboriginal Trifecta. I blame the 'feminists' - you? I blame anecdotes. 'domestic violence laws' that permit brutal and mainly unwarranted assaults on men on the basis of any complaint, were pushed through on the basis of 'anecdotal evidence' gathered from 'remote Aboriginal communities' seriously affected by violence etc.. and were then extrapolated to our entire population, leading to countless violent assaults, physical, judicial, psychological, social and financial being made against countless innocent men. So now - when you see opposition to the feminist supremacist thrusts, you label any such as merely 'anecdotal' and thus of no real value? How the worms turn.... and our grandfathers who fought to defend civilisation turn over in their graves at what the politicians have done to this nation and its once proud men.

You almsot had me up til this crap at the end

and our grandfathers who fought to defend civilisation turn over in their graves at what the politicians have done to this nation and its once proud men.

Gordon wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 3:29pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:27pm: Gordon wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:25pm: Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:16pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:57pm: Gordon wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:28pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:57pm: Valkie wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:29pm: The school system has been taken over by useless females. Most have never actually done anything but gone to school, then uni, then teaching. They have no idea about the real world. Then they ostracized males to ensure their matriarch control is maintained. They teach "toxic masvulinty" in an attempt to feminize males and to give women even more control. They are basically frightened by men and strength. Then they come up with this latest gender identity bull shite. The education system needs a clean out of these worthless female male haters. They demanded 50% women in everything Ok Let's have a minimum 50% male teachers in every school Any evidence of this, or is this just its the vibe thing. Do you have school aged children so you can share your personal observations? I wasn't making a claim, so thus don't actually have to provide evidence. Has Valkie got evidence? Actually - there's been a lot of stuff posted over the years about how men were driven out of teaching.  As I said - when once traveling in NZ, I came across an article that gave three examples of how male teachers were having their careers and lives smashed with false complaints, and were being steadily driven out of their chosen profession - and that was in 'trendy' Nu Zulland. One of three examples I clearly remember was one teacher being accused of sexual misconduct, by a girl who wanted a better mark and tried blackmail.  It cost him years on suspension to clear his name, cost him his marriage and his home etc - and he blankly stated he would never go back to teaching. This current trend of 'guilt by accusation' MUST be brought to a screeching halt.... and full reparations made to those harmed by this false paradigm of 'justice'.  Then we must begin on restoring balance to such areas as education, public service, and so forth... then we can begin to look at reparations there as well....... For Brother Brian - I am well aware, from discussion with a PO, that 25% of Aboriginals are in prison for "DV offences" - that can include non-violent actions to which authorities respond with violence against the man, and then have a 'need' to cover up by falsely charging him with Usual Suspect offences - the Aboriginal Trifecta. I blame the 'feminists' - you? My observations of my daughters primary school is that girls are given more academic attention than boys, and I came to that conclusion and had it verified by parents who had both male and female children at the school. I had no dog in the fight as I came to that conclusion before I even had a male child. Overall that's the case but it's by a teacher by teacher basis and enough that it skews it against boys. To me though that seems a different  education issue than the one Valkie brings up. Did I say I agree with Valkie?

Not at all, not trying to debate you, just Valkies claims about the toxic masculinity stuff.

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 3:21pm:

I blame anecdotes.

No, you just pretend to not know.


https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/05/the-war-against-boys/304659/

https://www.city-journal.org/rise-of-woke-schools

Black African British children outperform white children, whereas black Caribbean children tend to do worse. Poor Chinese girls (that is to say, those who qualify for free school meals) do better than rich white children. But, interestingly, the ethnic group least likely to get into university are whites. With the sole exception of Gypsy/Roma, every ethnic group attends university at a higher rate than the white British and, of the white British who do attend, most are middle class and 57 per cent are female.  The least likely group to go on to higher education are poor white boys. Just 13 per cent of them go on to higher education, less than any black or Asian group.

https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/07/the-lost-boys-2/


Not only but also:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eef-pwpXgAAjM7K?.jpg

Weird, didn't realise I was living in the US or UK education systems./

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 3:30pm:

Gordon wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:29pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:27pm: Gordon wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:25pm: Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:16pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:57pm: Gordon wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:28pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:57pm: Valkie wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:29pm: The school system has been taken over by useless females. Most have never actually done anything but gone to school, then uni, then teaching. They have no idea about the real world. Then they ostracized males to ensure their matriarch control is maintained. They teach "toxic masvulinty" in an attempt to feminize males and to give women even more control. They are basically frightened by men and strength. Then they come up with this latest gender identity bull shite. The education system needs a clean out of these worthless female male haters. They demanded 50% women in everything Ok Let's have a minimum 50% male teachers in every school Any evidence of this, or is this just its the vibe thing. Do you have school aged children so you can share your personal observations? I wasn't making a claim, so thus don't actually have to provide evidence. Has Valkie got evidence? Actually - there's been a lot of stuff posted over the years about how men were driven out of teaching.  As I said - when once traveling in NZ, I came across an article that gave three examples of how male teachers were having their careers and lives smashed with false complaints, and were being steadily driven out of their chosen profession - and that was in 'trendy' Nu Zulland. One of three examples I clearly remember was one teacher being accused of sexual misconduct, by a girl who wanted a better mark and tried blackmail.  It cost him years on suspension to clear his name, cost him his marriage and his home etc - and he blankly stated he would never go back to teaching. This current trend of 'guilt by accusation' MUST be brought to a screeching halt.... and full reparations made to those harmed by this false paradigm of 'justice'.  Then we must begin on restoring balance to such areas as education, public service, and so forth... then we can begin to look at reparations there as well....... For Brother Brian - I am well aware, from discussion with a PO, that 25% of Aboriginals are in prison for "DV offences" - that can include non-violent actions to which authorities respond with violence against the man, and then have a 'need' to cover up by falsely charging him with Usual Suspect offences - the Aboriginal Trifecta. I blame the 'feminists' - you? My observations of my daughters primary school is that girls are given more academic attention than boys, and I came to that conclusion and had it verified by parents who had both male and female children at the school. I had no dog in the fight as I came to that conclusion before I even had a male child. Overall that's the case but it's by a teacher by teacher basis and enough that it skews it against boys. To me though that seems a different  education issue than the one Valkie brings up. Did I say I agree with Valkie? Not at all, not trying to debate you, just Valkies claims about the toxic masculinity stuff.

There's an element of truth there. Any bad behavour by boys that you could classify typical boy behavour was dealt with very harshly while classic girl bad behavior like some really toxic bullying was glossed over.

Once again, no dog in the fight as my girl was neither a bully or a target.

I'll still send my boy to the same school but I've got a backup plan for a boys school.

Cool

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 3:52pm:

Weird, didn't realise I was living in the US or UK education systems./

Thank you, Bwian, they not that different to Australia's - as you know.

https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/teaching-has-become-feminised-and-boys-lose-out-20131121-2xxu4.html

https://www.educationmattersmag.com.au/the-shortage-of-male-teachers-in-primary-schools/

juliar wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2020 at 7:42pm:

The FABIAN Socialists starting mainly with that drongo Whitlam and continued by Juliar Gillard the Witch from Wales have long cherished the idea of dumbing down Australia by replacing essential subjects at school with useless Greeny indoctrination propaganda. ‘State governments have lost control of schools’: Mark Latham 22/07/2020 NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham says state governments have "lost control" of what's happening in schools. “The evidence presented by Miranda Devine in the Daily Telegraph shows Catholic education systems are losing control of what’s in their schools,” he said. Public and private schools have “massive issues about woke, left-wing, irrelevant and dangerous content”. Mr Latham told Sky News host Chris Smith a left-wing agenda was being pushed in classrooms, through teacher professional development programs, and in a top-down manner through entire schools. The state One Nation leader brought into focus the climate science presented to school children which he said was one-sided and failed to present the views of dissenting scientists or relevant economic arguments against emissions-reduction and the cost of renewable energy. “If you teach this rubbish, you end up with rubbish results”. https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6173983569001

The problem for Latham is the relevant arguments do present the fossil fuel position and it is negative in every aspect....Renewable's are cheaper and they don't emit greenhouse gases....The overwhelming scientific consensus is that greenhouse gases are causing global warming so children must be educated to accept this fact....We do not teach children bullshit Mr Latham who wants children to be taught the minority position in schools to promote scepticism of science and distrust of our leaders....Who does that remind you of???

;) ;) ;)

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 3:29pm:

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:28pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:21pm: Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 3:16pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:57pm: Gordon wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 2:28pm: Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:57pm: Valkie wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 1:29pm: The school system has been taken over by useless females. Most have never actually done anything but gone to school, then uni, then teaching. They have no idea about the real world. Then they ostracized males to ensure their matriarch control is maintained. They teach "toxic masvulinty" in an attempt to feminize males and to give women even more control. They are basically frightened by men and strength. Then they come up with this latest gender identity bull shite. The education system needs a clean out of these worthless female male haters. They demanded 50% women in everything Ok Let's have a minimum 50% male teachers in every school Any evidence of this, or is this just its the vibe thing. Do you have school aged children so you can share your personal observations? I wasn't making a claim, so thus don't actually have to provide evidence. Has Valkie got evidence? Actually - there's been a lot of stuff posted over the years about how men were driven out of teaching.  As I said - when once traveling in NZ, I came across an article that gave three examples of how male teachers were having their careers and lives smashed with false complaints, and were being steadily driven out of their chosen profession - and that was in 'trendy' Nu Zulland. One of three examples I clearly remember was one teacher being accused of sexual misconduct, by a girl who wanted a better mark and tried blackmail.  It cost him years on suspension to clear his name, cost him his marriage and his home etc - and he blankly stated he would never go back to teaching. This current trend of 'guilt by accusation' MUST be brought to a screeching halt.... and full reparations made to those harmed by this false paradigm of 'justice'.  Then we must begin on restoring balance to such areas as education, public service, and so forth... then we can begin to look at reparations there as well....... For Brother Brian - I am well aware, from discussion with a PO, that 25% of Aboriginals are in prison for "DV offences" - that can include non-violent actions to which authorities respond with violence against the man, and then have a 'need' to cover up by falsely charging him with Usual Suspect offences - the Aboriginal Trifecta. I blame the 'feminists' - you? I blame anecdotes. 'domestic violence laws' that permit brutal and mainly unwarranted assaults on men on the basis of any complaint, were pushed through on the basis of 'anecdotal evidence' gathered from 'remote Aboriginal communities' seriously affected by violence etc.. and were then extrapolated to our entire population, leading to countless violent assaults, physical, judicial, psychological, social and financial being made against countless innocent men. So now - when you see opposition to the feminist supremacist thrusts, you label any such as merely 'anecdotal' and thus of no real value? How the worms turn.... and our grandfathers who fought to defend civilisation turn over in their graves at what the politicians have done to this nation and its once proud men. You almsot had me up til this crap at the end and our grandfathers who fought to defend civilisation turn over in their graves at what the politicians have done to this nation and its once proud men.

Once you realise that the vast majority of the 'upward' social changes, such as universal healthcare, deeper and more beneficial social security, more guarantees in employment and 'industrial relations', and any number of other positive changes came about as the result of the sacrifice of those primarily men - who expected, in return - a fairer share of the pie - then you will begin to grasp the fundamental realities that most such changes are fought and bought for with blood and sacrifice, sometimes of generations.  They are NOT a 'handout' from above.... they are earned right to a fair piece of the pie.

No they didn't Grapps.
They still get the handout from 'above' via the UK & USA.
To forsake those handouts from above and reject both, would mean more blood, sweat and tear like you couldn't imagine to take place here. But you are 'Free' to chose your own destiny as a nation now... and it's not politics (USA has that).

philperth2010 wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 4:57pm:

The problem for Latham is the relevant arguments do present the fossil fuel position and it is negative in every aspect....Renewable's are cheaper and they don't emit greenhouse gases.... ;) ;) ;)

Not cheaper than nuclear without subsidies.

Now you see actual evidence of the damage the Greeny indoctrination is doing in schools when a brainwashed simple person starts sprouting Global Warming HOAX rubbish.

Frank wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 7:23pm:

philperth2010 wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 4:57pm: The problem for Latham is the relevant arguments do present the fossil fuel position and it is negative in every aspect....Renewable's are cheaper and they don't emit greenhouse gases.... ;) ;) ;) Not cheaper than nuclear without subsidies.

Despite the fact Australia has a moratorium on nuclear power, where do you get your information....Mark Latham???

:-? :-? :-?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-nuclearpower/nuclear-energy-too-slow-too-expensive-to-save-climate-report-idUSKBN1W909J

https://energypost.eu/renewable-energy-versus-nuclear-dispelling-myths/

Greeny types cannot see thru the fog of their Greeny indoctrination.

Now back to the TOPIC as Mark Latham blasts the evil insidious BLM Communists out of the water. Mark is a true patriot that WOKE Socialists fear.


If BLM is the new role model for Australian students then ‘we’re done for’
03/08/2020

NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham says Australian society is done-for if schools take a knee and idolize the “Neo-Marxist” Black Lives Matter movement.

It comes as the principal at a Wollongong high school has inspired her students to take a knee in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in Australia.

She told an assembly, “word must be spread on what has happened to … our own indigenous population”.

"I could never imagine the suffering they and their ancestors could have been through. But I do know, I can look to history to change my own ways and take up arms alongside those in protest. And this is something we can all do,” she continued.

Mr Latham told Sky News host Alan Jones Australian schools used to be focused on providing the country’s youth with the best possible start in life, neutral of ideology and politics.

“But now you’ve got a bunch of activists in our school system who think the school is there to indoctrinate political change,” he said.

“It’s a low point in NSW education that the students were essentially forced into taking a knee to an organization – Black Lives Matter – that’s Neo-Marxist, believes in defunding the police, that attacks the nuclear family, that believes in gender fluidity, and here in NSW broke court orders.

“If that’s the sort of organisation that students have to take a knee for, if that’s the new role model, then we’re done for.”

https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6177631933001

The good guys are really slamming the WOKE Socialist conspiracy trying to undermine Australia with Communism.



A 'selective diversity policy' appears to define new NSW LGBTIQ+ Network
29/07/2020

Despite the recent launch of an LGBTIQ+ network by the NSW Planning Department, NSW Minister for Families, Communities and Disability Services Gareth Ward says the NSW Liberal government is focused on jobs and economic growth.

The Berejiklian government has created a whole of public sector LGBTIQ+ network to in a bid to “connect, collaborate and build a community”.

The new unit with the attached slogan “reflecting our communities” will function alongside an established a harmony council, Aboriginal cultural team and a diversity council.

Sky News host Alan Jones criticised the slogan saying “only three per cent of adults, according to the bureau of statistics, identified with LGBTIQ”.

Mr Ward said “diversity in the workplace, encouraging people to achieve their full potential, getting past some of the stigma is a good thing, because we want to have inclusive workplaces”.

He didn’t address Mr Jones query regarding whether he could “quote peer reviewed academic study anywhere in the world which shows diversity improves staff productivity”.

Mr Jones suggested “a selective diversity policy” was at work given a whole new public sector network had been created for a group which represented three per cent of the population while little had been done to recruit the disadvantaged or homeless.

https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6176200472001

Its like that poster says:

If Capitalism is so good why does Socialism have to keep bailing it out. 

And that's the reality isn't it? Every few years capitalism collapses and dies and then our Governments plunder the Community coffers or print money (same thing, we all pay for it in the end) and give it to the Power/Business Elite, with no conditions - its all free, to payoff their debts and then they say "See Capitalism works"

Truth is capitalism is primitive and doesn't really work on a large scale and the bigger our economies get the more unstable they become and the more often they need to plunder the "Common Wealth" for their own use to bring it back to life again.

Its 2020. If we don't bury the capitalist monster soon it will bury us.    

What is capitalism a love story about?   :(
Michael Moore's timely film looks at the successes and failures of the American capitalist system, where the richest one per cent have more than the bottom 95 per cent combined; a system that claims to reward free enterprise but in fact rewards greed. He coaxes an explanation of what derivatives are from experts.
Capitalism: A Love Story/Film synopsis

whiteknight wrote on Aug 5^th, 2020 at 10:56am:

What is capitalism a love story about?   :( Michael Moore's timely film looks at the successes and failures of the American capitalist system, where the richest one per cent have more than the bottom 95 per cent combined; a system that claims to reward free enterprise but in fact rewards greed. He coaxes an explanation of what derivatives are from experts. Capitalism: A Love Story/Film synopsis

There is also that Documentary released about 7 years ago called "Corporation". It really is excellent

Goodness Gracious! The WOKE propaganda parrot Göbbells appears to sprinkle some fairy dust around.

Jasin wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 6:08pm:

No they didn't Grapps. They still get the handout from 'above' via the UK & USA. To forsake those handouts from above and reject both, would mean more blood, sweat and tear like you couldn't imagine to take place here. But you are 'Free' to chose your own destiny as a nation now... and it's not politics (USA has that).

Your reasoning is becoming abstruse... how exactly are there handouts from the US and UK that are providing our non-handout (as stated) social security and universal healthcare measures?

You mean the US and UK are paying AusGovCo to keep those in place... at a time when both the UK and the US are trying hard to dismantle the same things inside their own borders?  :-?  :-?  :-?

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/10/dirt-d10.html

He who controls ‘education’ controls the culture
By Howell Woltz -August 9, 20204162

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Allowing Marxists to control Universities and Teachers Unions was no accident—but a very bad idea

This week, a coalition of 10 teachers unions and the Democratic Socialists of America demanded the following:

• Ban new charter schools

• Ban private school choice

• Ban standardised tests

• Police-free schools

• More federal funding

They are holding a “National Day of Resistance” today in America to press their demands on the nation.

“Give us more money to not work and eliminate any union competition or we go on strike!”

Bold for a gang who’s been paid but hasn’t worked in 6 months. So how will we know they’re on strike?

This suicidal blackmail by the teacher’s unions is backfiring in spectacular fashion, and they’ve stupidly opened the door for much needed reform.

After teaching children/grandchildren at home for a few months, many families are scurrying for alternatives to public schools after seeing how easy, and beneficial a real education can be.

Homeschooling has exploded, as well as private neighbourhood schools where families join to hire tutors (or teach) and buy courses together, while taking turns as the meeting place in their own homes.

And what is truly devastating for the teachers’ mafia is that the kids are actually learning something of use for a change.

Interest in transgenderism, as example, is dropping like a rock.  If you don’t teach kids garbage, they don’t learn garbage.  Teach them reading and math instead, guess what?


And What About The Universities?
I’m very glad you asked.  We may be even luckier that the Wuhan Virus closed these Marxist indoctrination centres for an extended holiday than the grade schools, as our new leaders are coming from academia.

Professor John Ellis recently wrote in The Breakdown of Higher Education (2020), “I have documented a deliberate and relentless drive over many decades to make academia a political monoculture.”

Herbert Marcuse’s Marxist coup of higher education appears to now be complete, as 78.2% of U.S. universities academic departments “have either zero Republicans, or so few as to make no difference,” according to Professor Ellis’s research.

And read on to learn about the Socialist disease infecting Australia

https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/17965/marxist-universities-no-accident/

Your post is about US universities. Plus your assertion that socialist make education could be incorrect. It could be after being educated you become socialist.

BH is just denying the obvious. Australia is just as badly affected with the WOKE Socialist Disease.

juliar wrote on Aug 11^th, 2020 at 10:14am:

BH is just denying the obvious. Australia is just as badly affected with the WOKE Socialist Disease.

Cool, so no evidence then.

BH ignores the welter of evidence I have already supplied but then that is what WOKE Socialists do. BH is scared of losing his job especially after so many Chinese students have gone.

Articles from biased sources aren't evidence.

Sounds to me that the utter confusion in the minds of some between socialism and communism still prevails.....

It could be argued that the introduction of universal education, one of the major steps forward and upward in social structuring in the West, was 'socialist' - and certainly it was brought about through a long and often bloody confrontation between the 'working classes' and the honchoes.

The Unions had a huge part to play in that, and also in the introduction of the 'single living wage', which freed women from drudgery and danger and offered them and their families the opportunity to build a better future through education and such.  (forget your feminist bullshit - women were not kept out of their fancy 'careers' - they were removed from harm's way and drudgery, while men retained the hard work, hazards, and early death - nothing has changed since other than feminist attempts at absolute hegemony over the West - there, my lords - there is your enemy!).

Anyway - as I've explained to yez all time and time again - like talking to a fallen log - every viable society these days, primarily the West as it once was pre-Invasion by Feminists, is a safe mix of socialism and capitalism - those may vary a little here and there - but the overall thrust is for a generally better society that caters to the needs of all.

What you are seeing here is but an extension of Feminist Invasion Day, with the same kind of people, 'male' or 'female', demanding without sufficient thought and analysis what they think they are entitled to or somehow missed out on, in the classic feminist mold.   ::)  This kind of demanding clearly oversteps the boundaries of civilisation and becomes in itself a form of despotism via excessive control by like-minded individuals who brook no dissent or deviation (just like in Hong Kong now) .....

(cue aquascoot on the nanny/daddy state - the reality is that without socialism Western enterprises would not function - and merely extracting blood from unpaid stones is not going to sustain a business)...

Indeed, ye grappler, every time someone on here talks about socialism, I just assume they've confused the two.

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 11^th, 2020 at 11:54am:

Indeed, ye grappler, every time someone on here talks about socialism, I just assume they've confused the two.

They always do - they always do.... Stalinism, which has been the 'norm' for communism to date, is but one cigarette paper away from Fascism..... socialism is merely sharing the good bits along with the bad, and contrary to what Winston Churchill said about socialism - it is is not 'sharing the misery', since those who can afford to share would hardly be miserable... of course Winnie does get a little carried away at times, and shows the reality that he had a privileged upbringing.... did he sweep the shop floor like Joe Hockey in between bouts at Eton?  Did-ums ....

If you saw that doco on the introduction of the NHS in Britain and the constant attacks on it by both conservatives and Labor, you would see clearly why the NHS and a few other policies were necessities, not luxuries - small children living and dying in slums of curable illnesses.... what kind of 'man' would turn his back on that and spit in their faces?

(I do carry on a bit... too educated for my own good, it seems)....

Grapple and BH are patting each other on the back.

Any and Every source that shakes BH's WOKE Socialist holier than thou views is automatically classified as "biased".

BH NEVER produces any sort of cogent argument as he could not argue his way out of a wet paper bag.

He loves those circular round and round the merry go round things which are just a waste of time.

Understanding the simple difference between Stalinism (communism as played out in reality) and Socialism is a good start for anyone.... without a start, you aren't even in the race.

Who can argue that 'socialist' public transport, power, gas, banking, etc were somehow less 'efficient' than the currently over-priced 'private enterprise models' that rely on socialism to bail them out when they are in a corner?

The social public (those to whom socialism offers an equal advantage and a fair shot and a fair meal) pays every which way with the 'private enterprise model', while the Chosen Few Mates get off with the Treasury in traditional Banana Republic fashion...

Private roads, privatised public transport, airports, power supply, gas supply ... every single thing you can label as 'privatised' costs more and at the very best is no more 'efficient'.... just more costly for the same result and the costs all go to the peons and the profits go to the fat cats ...

Socialism for the fat bastards works...... but not the other way... the peasants can eat cake....

BOTR...

The WOKE Socialists are criticizing each other and trying to justify their Socialist desire to get everything for nothing.

See the Socialists eyes light up when a handout is mentioned!!!!!

Uni staff starved of Chinese students due to the Chinese Virus are copping it from all sides.



Report highlights super-exploited conditions of Australia’s casual university staff
By John Harris 15 August 2020

A report entitled “Over-worked and worked over: Casual Academics Bear the Costs of COVID-19,” released by the University of Sydney (USyd) Casuals Network last month, provides further evidence of the increasing exploitation of casual workers in Australia’s universities.

The report was based on a survey of 159 casual workers in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at USyd. It focussed on employment and financial insecurity due to the coronavirus pandemic. The results point to the broader experiences of workers throughout tertiary education institutions across the country and internationally.

Over the past three decades, Australian universities have seen a dramatic expansion in the levels of casual employment—part of a wider corporate-government drive to decimate full-time permanent work. Approximately 70 percent of the university workers, both academic and professional, are now on insecure or casual contracts.

This is the result of the worsening under-funding of universities and their transformation into business entities serving the needs of the financial elite, facilitated by successive enterprise bargaining agreements (EBAs) foisted on university staff by the main trade unions covering university staff, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU).

Casual workers have been increasingly denied any possibility of securing permanent work. Across the tertiary education sector, the report said approximately 62.9 percent of casuals had remained in a casual job between 3 to 10 years, with 12.6 percent in a casual position for over 10 years.

Casual staff often fill critical teaching positions, including course coordination (27 percent), tutoring (91.2 percent) and lecturing (40.9 percent), conduct research and provide professional support functions.

The report highlights growing underpayment. Before the pandemic, 40.5 percent of the FASS casual workers reported that they tended to work between “0-3 hours” of unpaid work per week. Another 35.6 percent workers indicated between “4-7 hours:” Some 11.1 percent worked between “7–10 hours;” 6.3 percent selected “11–14 hours;” 1.6 percent selected “15–18 hours” and 2.4 percent selected “22+ hours.”

In Semester 1 this year, unpaid work hours increased substantially. Of all the respondents, 18.3 percent selected “0–3 hours;” 31.3 percent selected “4–7 hours;” 24.5 percent selected “7–10 hours;” 10.7 percent selected “11–14 hours;” 6.1 percent selected “15–18 hours;” 4.6 percent selected “19–21 hours” and 4.6 percent selected “22+ hours.”

On average, FASS casuals were contracted for 12 hours per week, or 156 hours for a 13-week semester. The average number of unpaid hours for Semester 1 was 50.58, equivalent to nearly a third of the contracted hours. Some casuals worked over 280 unpaid hours during the semester.

Read on for more Uni catastrophe

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/15/unis-a15.html

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 11^th, 2020 at 11:35am:

Articles from biased sources aren't evidence.

Who - and how - decides bias and thereby inadmissability?

Please explain.

Agatha, BH is a bit of an oddball who can't argue his way out of a wet paper bag and makes silly statements like this just to get himself off the hook.  He is really agreeing.

Bertie wrote on Aug 18^th, 2020 at 9:48pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 11th, 2020 at 11:35am: Articles from biased sources aren't evidence. Who - and how - decides bias and thereby inadmissability? Please explain.

The process of looking at a sources past? Would you agree that a socialist alliance article would be biased?

juliar wrote on Aug 19^th, 2020 at 8:39am:

Agatha, BH is a bit of an oddball who can't argue his way out of a wet paper bag and makes silly statements like this just to get himself off the hook.  He is really agreeing.

Agreeing with your mental illness? Yes

E.g. juliar constantly rants about GetUp, which is fair (and why I don't listen to them) but posts morning mail, larry pickering, IPA etc.

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 21^st, 2020 at 12:00pm:

E.g. juliar constantly rants about GetUp, which is fair (and why I don't listen to them) but posts morning mail, larry pickering, IPA etc.

Who DO you listen to?

Frank, BH listens to the WOKE Socialists but doesn't really understand what he is hearing.

His reasoning ability is pretty limited and that is why he can't argue his way out of a wet paper bag. But instead he resorts to silly circular arguing tactics often used by Greeny types. He is technically and scientifically agnostic and wouldn't know a timing chain from a spark plug.

The WOKE Socialists are ruining young Australian's lives with their sick depraved rubbish.



Uni administrators: masters of their own ruin!
AMM 15.08.20. 

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Janet Albrechtsen’s insightful article makes two things about our universities abundantly clear and that is, the swamp must be drained and the other is that it will never happen until management is also changed. After all, it is on their watch that their current predicament has occurred indicating a paucity of vision—hardly a good example of higher learning?

It was entirely sensible that the Morrison government called for a report into the state of academic freedom in Australian universities. The report by former High Court chief justice Robert French found that free speech and academic freedom needed greater protection, and it set down a recommended model code. It is fair enough that there is a further report into how universities are implementing French’s recom­men­dations.

But can we please have a guarantee that there will not be a report into a report of a report?


Australia’s universities should be penalised for crimping intellectual freedom
Source: Janet Albrechtsen, News Corp

What comes next? Events since the French report suggest that universities cannot be trusted to improve the intellectual health of our universities. The recalcitrance of vice-chancellors is on the record. Their lobby group, Universities Australia, worked hard to ignore the French report after it was handed to the Education Minister in April last year. Maybe the VCs counted on the Morrison government being tossed out at the federal election last May.

They may try to whitewash, and wriggle out of, this latest review too. But they will have to dupe, or woo, Sally Walker, the former Deakin University vice-chancellor. Appointed by Dan Tehan, Walker has a stronger record of fostering academic freedom than all the VCs of Australia’s biggest universities combined.

When she was VC of Deakin University, law professor Mirko Bagaric and Deakin law lecturer Julie Clarke wrote a controversial article in 2005 for an American law journal advocating the use of torture in some circumstances. After an extract ran in The Age, the two academics were pilloried by fellow academics, refugee advocates and politicians ranging from then foreign minister Alexander Downer to Greens MPs.

Walker could have done the usual VC schtick: duck for cover and mutter that the controversial views don’t represent the values of the university. Instead, Walker stared down critics and delivered a crystal-clear defence of academic freedom.
“Professor Bagaric, as an academic staff member, is entitled to express his opinions as are those members of academic staff who disagree with him,” Walker said in a written statement.

“After all, the ability to freely and publicly raise these issues and debate them are hallmarks of a free and open democratic society and the defining characteristics of a progressive university.”

Walker, who also set about fixing the finances at Deakin, seems perfectly positioned to make tough calls that are not popular. It might help that Walker is not part of the VC bubble that surrounds the Group of Eight universities. Though she was acting VC at the University of Melbourne for a period before joining Deakin, Walker will surely know that academic freedom has gone from bad to worse at universities that should be setting the gold standard in how to promote a robust learning environment.

That said, transforming the intellectual health of our universities is not for the faint-hearted. The starting point for Walker is that the most beautifully drafted code of academic freedom is meaningless unless it is implemented. In simple terms, academic freedom must be measured against evidence, not model codes.

Evidence such as the disgraceful behaviour of administrators at the University of NSW earlier this month. Human Rights Watch Australian director Elaine Pearson, who is also an adjunct law lecturer at UNSW, was interviewed by the university’s media department. Pearson called for a UN special envoy to be appointed to monitor human rights in Hong Kong in light of new national security laws. The interviewed was published on the UNSW website and linked in a UNSW tweet.

Her comments upset the Chinese Communist Party newspaper Global Times and a small, vocal group of Chinese students who claimed that Pearson’s views were hurtful. Rather than uphold the Western tradition of intellectual diversity, UNSW sided with a communist regime. The university pulled the article and the tweet. UNSW tweeted: “The opinions expressed by our academic do not always represent the views of UNSW. We have a long & values relationship with Greater China going back 60 years.”

A public uproar about the university’s cowardice forced UNSW administrators to reinstate the content, but on other platforms.

Read on and sigh

https://morningmail.org/119881-2/

The FABIAN Socialists starting with that dope Whitlam and continued with gusto by the appalling Gillard the Witch from Wales have long cherished the notion of dumbing down Australians so they would be easy to fool and con to get them to vote for the idiotic WOKE Socialism rubbish.

Today the mental rot extends all the way to the universities.



The effective dumbing down of a generation
AMM 25.08.20. 

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Once-upon-a-time school students were taught how to think. Today they are taught what to think.

This is why society has so many dimwits in every sphere, especially in our institutes of learning—including, as we are fast learning—politics!

Timing is everything, and so it is with the onset of COVID-19 and the culmination of the long march through the institutions.

This march has taken a while, led by the universities veering to the left and inculcating students on the full agenda of woke topics – the evils of capitalism, colonialism, racism, women’s rights, inequality, diversity, multi-culturalism, globalism, intersec-tionality, climate change etc.



This season’s bumper crop from Left’s Long March
Source: Judith Sloan, News Corp

It’s not just humanities and law students who’ve been subject to this politically correct thinking. Courses ranging from medicine to science, from engineering to business include large dollops of woke material, strange as this might seem.
As graduates fanned out into the public service and teaching, the pace of the march quickened – any workers holding different views from the full woke complement were effectively silenced lest their careers be endangered.

At a time when we need our public institutions at the top of their game and for people to have confidence in them, their activities and the expressed opinions of their leaders too often work against their original objectives.

Rather than perform their roles quietly and efficiently, most taxpayer-funded institutions are off on self-directed frolics based on the on-trend progressive fads.

Look at Victoria’s Chief Health Officer, Dr Brett Sutton. As COVID-19 struck, he was busy putting the finishing touches on a paper about climate change and public hospitals. As the virus spread, his deputy, Dr Annaliese Van Diemen, using Twitter, likened COVID-19 to the arrival of Captain James Cook. (Perhaps she meant Governor Arthur Phillip – history is not one of her strengths.)

Generally, chief health officers positions – often political appointments – were never taken seriously by the medical profession. While public health can be a fairly dreary pursuit, with preventive measures necessary but sometimes costly, it is a crucial activity for the public sector.

But lured by trendy and worthy-sounding alternative endeavours, state health departments ended up underinvesting in public health and pandemic preparation, with Victoria leading the pack of neglectful bureaucrats. Now we are expected to hang on their every word and the punitive directions they issue almost daily.

Of course, the long march through the institutions doesn’t end with state health departments. There is nary a part of the state or federal public services not infected by the rise of politically correct thinking and distracted from the pursuit of the rightful objectives.

Take the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. A glance at its top-heavy organisational structure is terrifying. There is the Sustainability and Climate Change branch and the Human Rights and Social Inclusion branch. We even have an Ambassador for Gender Equality and, of course, a Gender Equality Branch. Evidently, people smuggling and human trafficking also need their own ambassador.

Most people would be able to remove about two-thirds of the activities of DFAT and conclude the country would be better off saving the cost of those highly paid officials as well as discarding all that pointless meddling.

It’s hardly necessary to mention the Australian Human Rights Commission here. What started off as a modest venture to offer some remediation for tightly defined violations of human rights – the states already had their own machinery – it has ended up as a vehicle for grandstanding presidents and commissioners pursuing personal agendas.

Then there is the ABC which is wall-to-wall woke with the possible exception of regional radio.

The Bureau of Meteorology should be a dull agency undertaking the useful task of predicting the weather, short-term and slightly longer-term. There were jokes about the inaccuracy of its forecasts but most people held BOM to be reasonably trustworthy.

Climate change has completely altered its activities. The agency regularly makes grand statements about this day or month or year being the hottest on record without revealing the true adjustments it makes to these claims. The BOM wants to be a player in the climate change debate, underpinning its demand for more resources.

Even organisations that should be regarded as undertaking boring, utilitarian roles have lost the plot. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority – doing a very bad job regulating superannuation – insists climate change be taken into account by the companies it regulates.

Read on to learn how dangerous these WOKE Socialists really are

[url]https://morningmail.org/the-effective-dumbing-down-of-a-generation/#more-1

Aboriginal activist Noel Pearson has blamed the “appalling” teachers’ union for Australia’s falling literacy standards, and blasted it for blocking reforms to help First Nations children read and write.







Noel Pearson blasts teachers’ union for ‘appalling’ ban on explicit instruction

Mr Pearson said the Australian Education Union “could not be more against the interests of children’’.

“They are oblivious, or completely blind, to the evidence about what’s effective in education, and the teaching of reading particularly,’’ he told The Weekend Australian.

“It’s just tragic. Teacher unions used to be the champions of explicit instruction, but today they’re the complete opposite.

“They’re the major reason why we haven’t made much progress in Australia and we’ve been sliding down the international rankings for 30 years straight.’’

The AEU, which flew 250 drones in a light show over Sydney Harbour last week to highlight its campaign for extra funding for public schools, refused to comment on Friday.

He said it was “just appalling’’ that the AEU had directed its members to boycott reforms outlined in the Albanese government’s national schools agreement – including small-group tutoring, phonics-based reading instruction, a year 1 numeracy test and explicit teaching methods.

He said disadvantaged students benefit from direct instruction – an old-school teaching method involving clear step-by-step explanations, repetition and student practice, which was abandoned in the 1980s for the fads of “student-directed learning’’ and whole-word recognition.

Mr Pearson said many First Nations children living in remote areas can’t speak English when they start school.

“The phonemes (sounds) of English are foreign to their ancestral languages,’’ he said.  “They haven’t grown up in houses where English is spoken, where books are in the house.  “There’s a language challenge for remote kids so explicit instruction in the phonemes of English is probably the most beneficial thing I’ve seen.’’

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/noel-pearson-blasts-teachers-union-for-appalling-ban-on-explicit-instruction/news-story/eab154f1aac9112d3c4f8df34c4089e3

“The best way to close the gap is to never let the gap open up in the beginning. "



AEU prez:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GcYegsTa4AAKQMS?.jpg

https://x.com/AEUfederal/status/1857208606938268017

In the dying days of 2024, “social justice” now means that Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey are issued with trigger warnings at the University of Exeter.

There are references to “sexual violence, rape and infant mortality”, undergraduates are counselled. Students who feel upset are advised to “leave the classroom and contact wellbeing” if they are distressed. Wellbeing? What fresh hell?

The truth is that trigger warnings – a lazy idea, largely imported from American campuses – are an embarrassing offshoot of the therapising of everyday life.

Universities are meant to educate, not indoctrinate
Radical activists are cloaking themselves in “academic freedom” so they can tap taxpayers for a paid platform for their “anti-colonial” polemics.


Abdel-Fattah showed off her self-professed contempt for some of the basic tenets of academic research in her speech to a controversial symposium staged by the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane last month. In a closed-door address to QUT’s National Symposium on Unifying Anti-Racist Research and Action, she railed against “white supremacists and pseudo-intellectuals” in a “totally rotten” academia, boasted how she “bends the rules” and revealed that she had refused an ARC requirement to hold a conference.

Instead, in an eyebrow-raising exercise she later crowed was her “best work”, the doctor of philosophy asked women to send her protest slogans and chants that were printed on coloured paper, cut into pieces and put into jars. As she gleefully told her audience, it was just like “being in primary school”.

Provocatively, Abdel-Fattah spelled out how she censored other academics who disagreed with her views. “I refuse to cite anybody who has remained silent over Gaza, no matter how authoritative and big they are in their respective fields,” she said. “If they have remained silent, they are not scholars to me, they are not thinkers, they are deficient human beings. I will not participate in validating them.”

Imagine if medical scientists took the same approach to their research. Could a cancer researcher collect quips from chemotherapy patients and place them in a jar tied with a pretty ribbon? What if a scientist investigating the safest engineering standards for building bridges chose to veto the findings of every engineer who refused to sign a Gaza petition?




Randa Abdel-Fattah @RandaAFattah
Future Fellow in Sociology researching Arab & Muslim social justice movements, Islamophobia, war on terror. Multi-award winning author of 12 books | Lawyer.
https://x.com/RandaAFattah/highlights



Sociology, eh?? 🤡🤡

Alas, Abdel-Fattah is hardly the only academic to celebrate publicly the murderous regime of Hamas, which the Australian government has classified as a terrorist organisation. QUT invited Tasnim Mahmoud Sammak, in her capacity as a PhD student at Monash University, to its anti-racism symposium, which she used as a platform to spout her hatred of Israel. Guest speakers were asked to talk about an “anti-racist practice you’ve been involved in that’s innovative or exciting or inspiring”. As a former Islamic school teacher, now working as a teaching assistant at Monash, Sammak might have discussed ways to promote multicultural understanding and respect between students.

Hell no. Her idea of an exciting and inspiring anti-racist activity was the October 7 Hamas terror attacks, which she described as a “mass uprising”. “If we’re talking about an example of anti-racist practice, I would say that that was an attempt from the people of Gaza to liberate themselves,” she told the QUT audience. “It’s not Hamas holding the people of Gaza captive, it’s the people of Gaza who Hamas is representative of who decided to break out of the siege of Gaza, the prison, the concentration camp of Gaza.” Where is the research-based factual evidence for her assertion? Did she survey the innocent children of Gaza, who dodge bombs and face death daily because the Hamas monsters controlling their country provoked a war with Israel?

Gaza and the West Bank haven’t held a democratic election in about 19 years, and Sammak told her audience she had never set foot in Gaza.





The immigration system must be reviewd and severely tightened.

"The federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights reported on Wednesday that it had witnessed “brazen incidents of anti-Semitism go without consequence or leadership by some of our university vice-chancellors”. These million-dollar boffins must take responsibility for setting – and enforcing – clear boundaries for rigorous and respectful academic research, behaviour and debate. The purpose of universities is research and education – not polemics and indoctrination."

juliar wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2020 at 7:42pm:

The FABIAN Socialists starting mainly with that drongo Whitlam and continued by Juliar Gillard the Witch from Wales have long cherished the idea of dumbing down Australia by replacing essential subjects at school with useless Greeny indoctrination propaganda. ‘State governments have lost control of schools’: Mark Latham 22/07/2020 NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham says state governments have "lost control" of what's happening in schools. “The evidence presented by Miranda Devine in the Daily Telegraph shows Catholic education systems are losing control of what’s in their schools,” he said. Public and private schools have “massive issues about woke, left-wing, irrelevant and dangerous content”. Mr Latham told Sky News host Chris Smith a left-wing agenda was being pushed in classrooms, through teacher professional development programs, and in a top-down manner through entire schools. The state One Nation leader brought into focus the climate science presented to school children which he said was one-sided and failed to present the views of dissenting scientists or relevant economic arguments against emissions-reduction and the cost of renewable energy. “If you teach this rubbish, you end up with rubbish results”. https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6173983569001

"failed to present the views of dissenting scientists"

Every "dissenting scientist" is unique in his quackery. There is no coherent alternative view to present. And I am not sure what place economics has in the science classroom. The cost of addressing climate change is irrelevant to the facts.

freediver wrote on Feb 16^th, 2025 at 9:57am:

juliar wrote on Aug 3rd, 2020 at 7:42pm: The FABIAN Socialists starting mainly with that drongo Whitlam and continued by Juliar Gillard the Witch from Wales have long cherished the idea of dumbing down Australia by replacing essential subjects at school with useless Greeny indoctrination propaganda. ‘State governments have lost control of schools’: Mark Latham 22/07/2020 NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham says state governments have "lost control" of what's happening in schools. “The evidence presented by Miranda Devine in the Daily Telegraph shows Catholic education systems are losing control of what’s in their schools,” he said. Public and private schools have “massive issues about woke, left-wing, irrelevant and dangerous content”. Mr Latham told Sky News host Chris Smith a left-wing agenda was being pushed in classrooms, through teacher professional development programs, and in a top-down manner through entire schools. The state One Nation leader brought into focus the climate science presented to school children which he said was one-sided and failed to present the views of dissenting scientists or relevant economic arguments against emissions-reduction and the cost of renewable energy. “If you teach this rubbish, you end up with rubbish results”. https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6173983569001 "failed to present the views of dissenting scientists" Every "dissenting scientist" is unique in his quackery. There is no coherent alternative view to present. And I am not sure what place economics has in the science classroom. The cost of addressing climate change is irrelevant to the facts.

The facts being?  And based on which form of witch doctor quackery are these ones?

You should have stopped at 'there is no coherent view to present' and remained honest, professor, since neither 'side' holds a coherent view upheld by ongoing Science and actual events.  Polar Bears are not masquerading as drop bears off the tops of icebergs...

Simple discussion of the costs of various approaches is not 'economics' - it's just a side-note on the totality of the issue.

Anecdote:-  I constantly say to the Eld Gel - when watching a 'storm' build up and come along - that when I was a kid they WERE so much bigger and meaner... and that's not just making it up etc... I recall clearly how you could watch those clouds swirling up and up and then crashing down with force ... and I KNOW I often walked to school and back in 100+ degree heat... those were the figures...  nowadays it's a heat wave at 85 ... haven't seen a storm build like that in decades ...

I get the impression 'climate change' is not working..... not any more than it always has ... and volcanoes are spewing far more into the atmosphere than dear little old Australia...  so what is behind this 'alternative energy' thrust, for real?  Australia is not changing one iota of world input of gases etc... from ALL sources ....

I think we're going to end up with nuclear modern style.... even the greenies are opposing massive wind farm visual pollution across the Nullarbor..... it's a shot coon...

Quote:

You should have stopped at 'there is no coherent view to present' and remained honest, professor, since neither 'side' holds a coherent view upheld by ongoing Science and actual events.

Sure they do. Even you probably get it. You know what the greenhouse effect is, right?

freediver wrote on Feb 16^th, 2025 at 9:57am:

Every "dissenting scientist" is unique in his quackery.

That is strange. The consensus has its fair share of "quacks". Even non-climate scientists. That is why there is a problem with science papers being verified.


freediver wrote on Feb 16^th, 2025 at 10:24am:

You know what the greenhouse effect is, right?

Yes it is a theory that actually hasn't been proved. Models are not proof. ;)

Failed school leavers with Australian Tertiary Admission Rank scores as low as 39 are being recruited into teaching degrees, as universities lower the entry bar to enrol the poorest academic performers.

Fifteen universities have enrolled school leavers with ATAR scores below 60 – the lowest 20 per cent of students – sparking concerns from the federal government and opposition.

The University of Tasmania has offered a place in a primary school teaching degree to an applicant with a raw ATAR of 39.35 – a rank reflecting the bottom 4 per cent of high school results.

Universities are supposed to enforce an ATAR of 70 for entry to teaching degrees, but are using equity admission schemes to inflate entry scores with bonus ATAR points.


RMIT University enrolled a student in its Bachelor of Education (Primary) this year with an ATAR of 50.3 – and then bumped it up to 70.5 through “equity adjustments’’.  Charles Darwin University allowed a raw ATAR of 52.7 for entry to its degree for teaching maths to high school students.

At Victoria University – where a Bachelor of Education was offered to a student with an ATAR of 50.4 – a spokeswoman said “we believe an ATAR is not a determinant of a person’s potential. The minimum ATAR for our Bachelor of Education (P-12) is 70 or equivalent following access and equity considerations,’’ she said.


So academic ability is 50, DEI adds 20 = 70!   DEI IS where education standards go to die.
And they wonder why the prestige of school teaching has plummeted over th ed decades.

Twilight Zone.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...  ::) ::)

Been doin' it all day, sir!!  (that's a Rugby thing - ten seconds into the game and a penalty is given) ...

"Australian schools require an investment of one and a half billion dollars over the next decade and an overhaul of "faddish" teaching practice to reverse the nation's chronic maths failure, according to new research.

The Grattan Institute's Maths Guarantee report, released on Monday, builds on the last two years of NAPLAN results, which showed one third of Australian students have been failing to reach maths proficiency."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/maths-results-teacher-training-grattan-report/105159460

Maths failure leads to all types of failures. Medical, engineering and many more.

But I guess we don't need maths in our new curriculum. All you have to do is put across on the right box.  ::)

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1141899424336922

juliar wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2020 at 7:42pm:

The FABIAN Socialists starting mainly with that drongo Whitlam and continued by Juliar Gillard the Witch from Wales have long cherished the idea of dumbing down Australia by replacing essential subjects at school with useless Greeny indoctrination propaganda.

Certainly the  epidemic of internet porn easily accessed by young people is creating unhealthy sexual attitudes, nothing to do with Whitlam; while Gillard (4 decades later) might have been trying to deal with unhealthy attitudes to sex and relationships, via diversions in the class room which are supposed to increase awareness and healthy sexual attitudes, while ignoring the sickness on the internet.

You might expound your hatred of "Fabian socialists"  in another thread.... 

lee wrote on Apr 14^th, 2025 at 12:21pm:

"Australian schools require an investment of one and a half billion dollars over the next decade and an overhaul of "faddish" teaching practice to reverse the nation's chronic maths failure, according to new research. The Grattan Institute's Maths Guarantee report, released on Monday, builds on the last two years of NAPLAN results, which showed one third of Australian students have been failing to reach maths proficiency." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/maths-results-teacher-training-grattan-report/105159460 Maths failure leads to all types of failures. Medical, engineering and many more. But I guess we don't need maths in our new curriculum. All you have to do is put across on the right box.  ::)

Divorce, disability and poverty have been used by one in three university applicants to gain bonus entry points, as equity enrolments reach record highs.

Academic standards have been watered down for applicants who can demonstrate disadvantage – including Indigenous or poor students, as well as migrants struggling to speak English, and students who suffered from bullying, rumours or verbal abuse at home, work or school.

Postcode poverty is the biggest driver of equity admissions, as universities award bonus entry points to students who come from suburbs or schools that are designated as disadvantaged.

Record requests for equity access have been revealed by the University Admissions Centre in NSW, which processed 25,499 claims through its Educational Access Scheme, from a total of 74,593 applications to start university this year.

They include 19,902 automatically generated applications based on postcode, through a “socio-economic index’’ category introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

However, applications have surged 42 per cent on the grounds of disability and long-term medical conditions, severe family disruption including death, dom­estic violence or divorce, out-of-home care and financial woes.

UAC managing director Kim Paino said Australia’s largest tertiary admissions centre had seen a “steady rise in students applying for EAS under the personal illness and disability category’’.

“This reflects a combination of factors – increased awareness of the scheme, more accurate diagnosis of neurodivergent conditions like ADHD and ASD, and the lingering effects of the pandemic,’’ she said.

A UAC spokeswoman said 92 per cent of equity applications were approved.

Deakin University offers up to 15 bonus entry points for students who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, and five points for students from a non-English speaking background.

Queensland University of Technology gives up to six bonus entry points to migrant students who struggle with English.

“You can apply for the English language difficulty category if you have been in Australia for less than 10 years and your most recent study was negatively impacted by difficulty communicating in English,’’ its website states.



NB. Claims of Aboriginality or "disadvantage" are not verified.

Personally I find it confronting and a little bit funny that people care this much.

I give them exactly the same amount of respect gangsters and bikies and organise crime get.

Less than 1% of ordinary Australians good care less.

Try harder to get our attention?

Fall off another stage maybe?

No one cares.

Don’t matter who you vote for we all lose with these dimwits as our choice!

Daves2017 wrote on Apr 14^th, 2025 at 7:06pm:

Personally I find it confronting and a little bit funny that people care this much. I give them exactly the same amount of respect gangsters and bikies and organise crime get. Less than 1% of ordinary Australians good care less. Try harder to get our attention? Fall off another stage maybe? No one cares. Don’t matter who you vote for we all lose with these dimwits as our choice!

***hic! **

Frank wrote on Apr 14^th, 2025 at 3:11pm:

Divorce, disability and poverty have been used by one in three university applicants to gain bonus entry points, as equity enrolments reach record highs. Academic standards have been watered down for applicants who can demonstrate disadvantage – including Indigenous or poor students, as well as migrants struggling to speak English, and students who suffered from bullying, rumours or verbal abuse at home, work or school. Postcode poverty is the biggest driver of equity admissions, as universities award bonus entry points to students who come from suburbs or schools that are designated as disadvantaged. Record requests for equity access have been revealed by the University Admissions Centre in NSW, which processed 25,499 claims through its Educational Access Scheme, from a total of 74,593 applications to start university this year. They include 19,902 automatically generated applications based on postcode, through a “socio-economic index’’ category introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. However, applications have surged 42 per cent on the grounds of disability and long-term medical conditions, severe family disruption including death, dom­estic violence or divorce, out-of-home care and financial woes. UAC managing director Kim Paino said Australia’s largest tertiary admissions centre had seen a “steady rise in students applying for EAS under the personal illness and disability category’’. “This reflects a combination of factors – increased awareness of the scheme, more accurate diagnosis of neurodivergent conditions like ADHD and ASD, and the lingering effects of the pandemic,’’ she said. A UAC spokeswoman said 92 per cent of equity applications were approved. Deakin University offers up to 15 bonus entry points for students who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, and five points for students from a non-English speaking background. Queensland University of Technology gives up to six bonus entry points to migrant students who struggle with English. “You can apply for the English language difficulty category if you have been in Australia for less than 10 years and your most recent study was negatively impacted by difficulty communicating in English,’’ its website states. NB. Claims of Aboriginality or "disadvantage" are not verified.

So it would be a good idea to eradicate poverty, then DEI criteria would become obsolete since everyone would be getting a fair go.

https://xyz.net.au/2025/03/donald-trump-nukes-funding-for-australias-woke-universities/


Donald Trump Nukes Funding For Australia’s Woke Universities


By David Hiscox -March 24, 2025


Donald Trump and his administration are far from perfect, but he has clearly come in with a clear understanding of the system he is up against and a plan to take it down. The banning of woke ideology, the insistence on recognising the two sexes, ending USAID and the scrapping of the Department of Education (among other changes) are the equivalent of a strategic bombing campaign against the enemy’s infrastructure.

These instruments of Cultural Marxism cannot exist without taxpayer funding. Cut their funding at the source, and ordinary people will no longer be forced to pay for people who hate us to lecture us about how evil we are.

thegreatdivide wrote on Apr 14^th, 2025 at 9:20pm:

Frank wrote on Apr 14th, 2025 at 3:11pm: Divorce, disability and poverty have been used by one in three university applicants to gain bonus entry points, as equity enrolments reach record highs. Academic standards have been watered down for applicants who can demonstrate disadvantage – including Indigenous or poor students, as well as migrants struggling to speak English, and students who suffered from bullying, rumours or verbal abuse at home, work or school. Postcode poverty is the biggest driver of equity admissions, as universities award bonus entry points to students who come from suburbs or schools that are designated as disadvantaged. Record requests for equity access have been revealed by the University Admissions Centre in NSW, which processed 25,499 claims through its Educational Access Scheme, from a total of 74,593 applications to start university this year. They include 19,902 automatically generated applications based on postcode, through a “socio-economic index’’ category introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. However, applications have surged 42 per cent on the grounds of disability and long-term medical conditions, severe family disruption including death, dom­estic violence or divorce, out-of-home care and financial woes. UAC managing director Kim Paino said Australia’s largest tertiary admissions centre had seen a “steady rise in students applying for EAS under the personal illness and disability category’’. “This reflects a combination of factors – increased awareness of the scheme, more accurate diagnosis of neurodivergent conditions like ADHD and ASD, and the lingering effects of the pandemic,’’ she said. A UAC spokeswoman said 92 per cent of equity applications were approved. Deakin University offers up to 15 bonus entry points for students who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, and five points for students from a non-English speaking background. Queensland University of Technology gives up to six bonus entry points to migrant students who struggle with English. “You can apply for the English language difficulty category if you have been in Australia for less than 10 years and your most recent study was negatively impacted by difficulty communicating in English,’’ its website states. NB. Claims of Aboriginality or "disadvantage" are not verified. So it would be a good idea to eradicate poverty, then DEI criteria would become obsolete since everyone would be getting a fair go.

You will always have the poor among you.
Mathew 26.11

Frank wrote on Apr 15^th, 2025 at 10:37am:

You will always have the poor among you. Mathew 26.11

When talking about Labor: "People are doing it tough under Labor, it's all Albo's fault"

When talking about the Coalition: "The bible said there will always be poor people, get over it".

ProudKangaroo wrote on Apr 15^th, 2025 at 12:39pm:

Frank wrote on Apr 15th, 2025 at 10:37am: You will always have the poor among you. Mathew 26.11 When talking about Labor: "People are doing it tough under Labor, it's all Albo's fault" When talking about the Coalition: "The bible said there will always be poor people, get over it".

Idiotic nonsense.  We are talking about postcode poverty to game the woke/PC uni system.

Get a grip on something other than your pizzle, pal. You are like a Pavlovian dog - you frig on cue. Unseemly.

juliar wrote on Aug 4^th, 2020 at 10:45am:

Mark Latham is a one man crusader against the insidious WOKE Socialists trying to dumb down Australian kiddies.

Could anyone please explain to me,

What is a 'WOKE Socialist' ?


... and has the opening poster been watching too much of the 'bat-sh!t-crazy-hour' on SKY TV NEWS ?

They've been doing that since the advent of the 'feminists' into the education system - wherein they staged a coup and took over the minds of the small children - give them a child of 3-4-5 and he/she is theirs forever.

Look around you at the dorks produced by the schools these days.

Their coup was perpetrated by firstly screeching that men teachers were all paedophiles and potential rapists and such - thus ensuring they got the lowest chance of getting a job teaching ... then look at the REAL predators who got through because they were poofy SNAGS and not real men and guess what - poofy SNAGS have that predilection far more than REAL men do - then they fought tooth and nail on the false premise that the existing schooling and marking system somehow disadvantaged girls and needed change, and thus excluded boys to a very large extent ...thus by giving girls the opportunity unearned to gain higher marks to make them equal with boys - meaning that slowly but surely boys were left out - they occupied the houses of higher learning and took over those.

Again - you need only look around you at the results today in every part of our society.

I've been telling you all this for years now, and you've hated me for it - now in the United States there is a surge to chop down exactly the same evils of women dominating the education system and ruining it for first boys and then all children as they come along.

I TOLD YOU SO - Albo's 'voice' madness triggered a response worldwide.... in the mouse that roared - Australia - people saw that they could actually say NO to yet another form of woke madnedss - and they started to do exactly that.... and it has spread and is spreading to Britain and the United States and all other Western countries ... where the catch-cry growing louder by the day is - "Enough is enough!".  In Britain an entire township turned out in protest - wanting to take their own country and town back from insane immigration and illegal entrants.

I blame the feminists  unconditionally for the current malaise of the West - they started it all of - and their stupid male counterparts at the time coddled the poor little girlies... thus rotting the whole structure.... the White Knights - look at Albo tied to Mother Labor sheilas' apron strings and a woos to boot... a perfect example of the weak-kneed man sucking tit from his feminist mistresses in jack boots.

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Apr 15^th, 2025 at 10:49pm:

I blame the feminists  unconditionally for the current malaise of the West - they started it all of - and their stupid male counterparts at the time coddled the poor little girlies.

OBVIOUSLY, you're no believer in the equality of women - next to men.
But you're proving yourself a misogynist, as WELL




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Did this start with your mother
- or your ex-wife/wives ?

buzzanddidj wrote on Apr 16^th, 2025 at 2:14pm:

OBVIOUSLY, you're no believer in the equality of women - next to men.

That's the wrong metric. All men aren't equal either. Some can actually think for themselves, same as women. ;)

Those that can teach. Those that can't go to the bullshit castles and become bureaucrats, "guiding" the teaching revolution. :-X

buzzanddidj wrote on Apr 15^th, 2025 at 10:09pm:

juliar wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 10:45am: Mark Latham is a one man crusader against the insidious WOKE Socialists trying to dumb down Australian kiddies. Could anyone please explain to me, What is a 'WOKE Socialist' ?

Look in a mirror.

I wonder what story you'd prefer kids were taught, rather than the truth? Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::)

Frank wrote on Apr 17^th, 2025 at 6:48pm:

buzzanddidj wrote on Apr 15th, 2025 at 10:09pm: juliar wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 10:45am: Mark Latham is a one man crusader against the insidious WOKE Socialists trying to dumb down Australian kiddies. Could anyone please explain to me, What is a 'WOKE Socialist' ? Look in a mirror.

perhaps'little frank'  can give us a dictionary definition ?

Obviously no one  ELSE can !

 

buzzanddidj wrote on Apr 15^th, 2025 at 10:09pm:

Could anyone please explain to me, What is a 'WOKE Socialist'?

No such individual.  The "woke" movement and
socialism have too many contradictory viewpoints
in order to jointly exist as one.

 
 

buzzanddidj wrote on Apr 17^th, 2025 at 8:50pm:

Frank wrote on Apr 17th, 2025 at 6:48pm: buzzanddidj wrote on Apr 15th, 2025 at 10:09pm: juliar wrote on Aug 4th, 2020 at 10:45am: Mark Latham is a one man crusader against the insidious WOKE Socialists trying to dumb down Australian kiddies. Could anyone please explain to me, What is a 'WOKE Socialist' ? Look in a mirror. perhaps'little frank'  can give us a dictionary definition ? Obviously no one  ELSE can !

Which dictionary do you prefer/accept?

the wokerati are killing free expression

In a wide-ranging interview with the New Yorker, legendary comedian Jerry Seinfeld explains how the hard left has killed comedy. By imposing standards of wokeness, or political correctness, on the material comics use, so-called progressives are restricting what they feel able to say.

Seinfeld is, of course, right – and celebrated British comics of the standard of John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson have made the same point, as did the great Barry Humphries. But the point Seinfeld makes is not relevant solely to the world of entertainment. It evokes the wider issue of freedom of speech — which appears to be under threat in every so-called liberal society one can think of —and it stems from a politically– rather than morally–induced obsession to prevent anyone being caused offence.

In his widely acclaimed book, High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain (2013), distinguished columnist and intellectual Simon Heffer reminds us that the Victorians had their own code of avoiding offence. Certain things, mainly to do with sex or other forms of depravity, were not discussed in front of women or children, for example, and it was considered vulgar to mention money.

Now, though, the taboo subjects are related solely to questions prevalent in identity politics: someone’s race, gender or sexuality being the prime subjects deemed literally unspeakable. In the working men’s and comedy clubs of Britain until the 1990s, a stand-up comedian’s routine consisted almost entirely of jokes making fun of the Irish, black people, women (often mothers-in-law) and homosexuals; jokes about people identifying as a different gender did not exist because most comedians did not imagine such people existed, and neither did their audiences.

Club audiences hooted with laughter; not because they were packed with those who were cruel, bigots, homophobes or chauvinists, but because the jokes were funny and, importantly, they self-evidently meant no harm. They did not incite violence or prejudice against the minority being laughed about; and they were inevitably included in routines that contained a large quantity of jokes about stupid white men. Now, that last group is just about the only one about which a comedian can publicly joke.

Or, in the Australian case, it’s primarily people on the right spectrum of politics who are the targets of comedian jokes. As Gerard Henderson has observed, ABC satirists – Mark Humphries, Charlie Pickering, Shaun Micallef – have all too often sneered at political conservatives, while the Green Left is rarely subjected to ridicule.


The rest is here:
https://www.cis.org.au/commentary/opinion/no-offence-but-the-wokerati-are-killing-free-expression/

Twilight Zone.  Are there anything which can be called a "Race" other than the Human one, Soren?  Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::)

Brian Ross wrote on Apr 21^st, 2025 at 12:49pm:

Twilight Zone.  Are there anything which can be called a "Race" other than the Human one, Soren?  Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::)

West Indian stock? Like you, allegedly..  :D :D


What is the difference between stock and race? Between a greyhound and a dachshund?

Barack Obama - is he white or black? He is as much white as black but he is celebrated as the first black president. What does that MEAN? Bi- racial?  Half breed? Mixed stock? What?

Rachel Dolezal? Black? White? Black Lives Matter - or All Lives Matter?

Malaysian discrimination against the Chinese? What is the difference between Mayan race and Chinese race or ma l at ethnicity and Chinese ethnicity? Or stock.

Twilight Zone.  There is no race other than the Human Race, Soren.  Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::)

Brian Ross wrote on Apr 21^st, 2025 at 9:24pm:

Twilight Zone.  There is no race other than the Human Race, Soren.  Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::)

And you are not part of it, monkey. Tsk, tsk.

Frank wrote on Apr 21^st, 2025 at 11:14pm:

Brian Ross wrote on Apr 21st, 2025 at 9:24pm: Twilight Zone.  There is no race other than the Human Race, Soren.  Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) And you are not part of it, monkey. Tsk, tsk.

Really? Oh, dearie, dearie, me, what Race are you a member of, Soren or should I call you Agatha?  Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::)

Sad: This Guy Spent $500k On Ivy League Education And All He Knows How To Do Is Chant ‘Free Palestine’


"I'm starting to think my $500,000 of student debt wasn't worth it because I don't know a thing about molecular neuroscience," said Dr. Grayson, who finally earned his PhD in 2024. "Free Palestine!"

Grayson is just one of several students who feel they've been failed by Ivy League universities that spent more time training them to protest Israel than helping them learn about their fields of study. Graduates in mathematics, computer science, and even gender studies reportedly know next to nothing about how to apply their degrees to a career because they only know how to shout "Free Palestine!" over and over again.

History professor Benjamin Lance dismissed concerns that his students are unprepared for a career after taking his course. "I stand by the rigorous Harvard curriculum," he said. "Maybe my students can't get jobs because of the Jews. Did you ever think of that?"

The labor market is oversaturated with people who call for a free Palestine while accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing, says economic expert and labor analyst Heather Dove. "They don't know how to hold even the simplest jobs because they only know how to say 'free Palestine' again and again," she said. "The lucky ones can spin it into a catchy jingle, but most of them just say the same two words repeatedly around the clock."

"It's really sad."

At publishing time, Asher Grayson had updated his CV to include that he also knows how to chant "globalize the intifada."

Melbourne University collected $1.18bn from foreign students who paid to study at the elite institution last year – an 18 per cent increase compared to 2023.  Foreign students made up 46 per cent of enrolments last year.

The former vice-chancellor, Professor Duncan Maskell, received a pay rise of at least $130,000, with a remuneration package valued at between $1,575,000 and $1,589,999 before stepping down in December.  At the rival Monash University, vice-chancellor Professor Sharon Pickering was paid between $1,095,000 and $1,110,000.  Monash University collected $1.36bn in revenue from international students, who made up 35 per cent of onshore enrolments, along with 11,000 students based in Malaysia.

Trinity Grammar School in Kew, where annual tuition fees exceed $40,000, hosted founder of Queer Arab Australia Basem Kerbage during an assembly last Friday as part of the Associated Grammar Schools of Victoria’s (AGSV) Pride Round.

Mr Kerbage, a queer Arab pro-Palestinian activist, addressed students in a talk that some later said they found confronting for what they discovered online afterwards.

Students who searched Mr Kerbage’s social media accounts found publicly accessible explicit imagery, including a video of him performing a sexual act involving a dildo.

Frank wrote on Jun 16^th, 2025 at 11:59am:

Trinity Grammar School in Kew, where annual tuition fees exceed $40,000, hosted founder of Queer Arab Australia Basem Kerbage during an assembly last Friday as part of the Associated Grammar Schools of Victoria’s (AGSV) Pride Round. Mr Kerbage, a queer Arab pro-Palestinian activist, addressed students in a talk that some later said they found confronting for what they discovered online afterwards. Students who searched Mr Kerbage’s social media accounts found publicly accessible explicit imagery, including a video of him performing a sexual act involving a dildo.

The University of Sydney says it will “immediately undertake a review” after a Palestinian academic wrote on social media that he wanted “Zionists executed like we executed Nazis”.

Fahad Ali, a casual academic at the university, who has organised many pro-Palestine rallies and actions in Sydney, appeared to re-share a post he had penned on June 12 that had been removed by X for “violating our rules against violent speech”.

The post read: “F..k sanctions, I want Zionists executed like we executed Nazis.”

Bit 'ard to find an appropriate forum for this ominous prediction... the words of the prophets are written on the internet walls - forever:-

https://www.facebook.com/reel/989900235859386

All these 'educationists' are merely the useful tools for pushing the indoctrination of the masses from pre-school upwards - EVERY post-boomer should seriously look inside self and consider his/her 'worldviews' and search them all for genuine reality .... separate the emotion from the reality ..... and let us NEVER forget - this superficially laudable move to a 'new global order' or 'everyone equal etc' ... was HIJACKED by the same old robber baron pirates, who now, due to national government torpitude and inaction and unwillingness to even think clearly - can reside in tax havens while raping the entire world to suit themselves.

All you 'wokies' and 'lefties' need to wake up and see that what you are doing, in reality, is selling your children and grand-children under servitude to a New World Order of psychopathic thieves, liars, cheats and shameless pirates of everything they can get their hands on while raping national economies.

Then look at those you elect to government........ look carefully at their actual ways and doings .... would YOU trust that person implicitly to run your life for you?  You already are ....