Schools hit by class war - Coalition objects to 'Labor' lessons
By Steve Lewis
The Daily Telegraph
June 04, 2010
SENIOR school students will be taught about the formation of the Labor Party and union movement but little about the struggles of the conservative side of politics.
Sparking a fresh political brawl, thousands of high school history students will also be asked to examine minutes from union meetings so they can better appreciate a "worker" perspective.
The controversial education strategy forms part of a draft national course - The Development of Australian Identity - to be rolled out from next year.
It has triggered a backlash, with the Federal Opposition claiming students would get "a skewed view of history".
"The drafters of the national curriculum seem to think that the only side of political history worth studying is the history of the union movement and the birth of the Labor Party," Coalition education spokesman Christopher Pyne said.
“The Development of Australian Identity” ?
Labor’s Working Families
President of the Australian Labor Party’s fund raising arm,the Australian Council of Trade Unions, ACTU, self described “Comrade Darling” Sharan Burrow (c) “Union “ studies have already been introduced into New South Wales schools. An example of Union studies is where in the Math classes students are taught how to fill out an application for the dole.
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"This beggars belief given that the most successful side in politics since Federation has been the non-Labor side of politics."
The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has previously been in hot water for teaching students how to apply for welfare benefits as part of the maths curriculum.
It has given teachers and the public until the end of July to comment on its draft national curriculum. This would then be rolled out next year, providing a uniform curriculum for the first time in Australia.
Releasing the draft in May, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the education plan was "important to our sense of being one nation".
Last night, Ms Gillard accused the Coalition and Mr Pyne of being "all talk and no action" on a national curriculum.
"Now, instead of being constructive, he is of course simply being negative but worst of all, he is wrong," Ms Gillard said.
"The draft history curriculum does include elements of the conservative side of politics. The section Mr Pyne refers to, which of course is an optional unit, covers a period of history before the Liberal Party existed, so it is hardly surprising it isn't mentioned."
Ms Gillard said the education experts at ACARA had released the curriculum as a draft "and Mr Pyne, like every other Australian, was encouraged to have their say on the final".
The Coalition claimed the ACARA drafts were forcing a view of politics on to students.
"They believe the union movement and the Labor Party is the only side of politics that should be studied," Mr Pyne said.
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