Keep your politically correct hands off our kids

14-April-2009

“Australian parents and early learning childhood teachers should be concerned about the Rudd Government’s bizarre attempt to foist political correctness on the youngest of all Australians, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Childcare Sophie Mirabella MP said today.

“If the Government’s Early Years Learning Framework – Draft for Trial is anything to go by then we certainly have cause to fear for the future of Australian children. This is a document aimed at blatant social engineering, not early childhood education.”

“The Draft Early Years Framework which was released in November last year was full of incomprehensible bureaucratic jargon which was aimed at intimidating parents into thinking that they are not capable of raising their own children. Unfortunately, the newer Draft for Trial is not much better,” Mrs Mirabella said.

“If it was not such a serious topic I would laugh but sadly this is an attempt to use our young children as pawns in the name of political correctness by a government that does not have the interests of our children at heart.”

“As a new parent myself, I would be no different from any other parent who would be horrified at the scope and reach of the framework which is designed to indoctrinate our youngest Australians as they begin their path through the all-important early childhood years,” Mrs Mirabella said.

“We have a responsibility to nurture our children who are amongst our most vulnerable, not allow them to be used as political playthings by anyone, including Kevin Rudd and Maxine McKew,” Mrs Mirabella concluded.