Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Safe Schools Coalition Australia


Safe Schools Coalition Australia (SSCA) is a group of organisations in Australia focused on LGBTIQ people in schools. Its mission is to create safe and inclusive schools for students, families and staff who are in these groups.[5] There is opposition to the program relating to sexuality and gender concepts being taught in schools.[11] Politician Penny Sharpe has said that this opposition stems from homophobia.  the program is opposed by some religious groups, particularly the Christian right, with the program said to be "gagged" on same-sex marriage while the Safe Schools Coalition said there had been "no change to media protocols".[34] The Australian Christian Lobby and the Former National Party senator Bill O'Chee have criticised the program.[27]Former Labor senator Joe Bullock has also criticised Safe Schools.[52] Former Democrats Senator Brian Greig stated that the criticism from religious conservatives echoed the 1997 conservative response to "Here for Life", the anti-suicide program introduced by the Keating Government's Carmen Lawrence for gay and lesbian teenagers.[53] After conservatives described it as “promoting homosexuality” and “recruiting children”, the newly elected Howard Government cancelled the Here for Life program.[53]


Updated 31 Aug 2017, 3:47am  Even though it was the Australian Christian Lobby that led the charge against the Safe Schools program, Mr Kadri said Muslims were also deeply concerned about the possible impact of any legislative changes on education.  "A lot of Muslim community are concerned that religious rights will be trampled in Islamic schools [and that they] will have to follow a national curriculum that will teach things that go against the fundamentals of their religion, so they are concerned about it," he said. Will it have an impact on Safe Schools or not?  "Will it trample on our religious freedom because we are already afraid to build mosques, because we get right wing groups complaining about mosques, so will this have further impact on our rights and freedoms? 
"The Muslim community is not speaking because the climate which is created in this country, we are not allowed to speak. We speak up and are called a terrorist, unpatriotic and all those slurs. Recently Council of Imams Queensland president Yusuf Peer said gay marriage was unacceptable to Islam, and that Muslims should respect LGBTQI people but "condemn only their actions" "Islam also explicitly and unambiguously states that marital relationship is only permissible between a man and woman; any other marital relationships are Islamicly impermissible." But the Muslim community's view is not unanimous. difficult to define a single Islamic position on homosexuality, because Islam is diverse,  "Most Islamic scholars are in agreement that homosexuality is incompatible with Islamic theology.
"They tend to draw on the story of Lot in the Koran e question of Safe Schools education does not bother her at all.  "There are many of us who, whilst believing that the act of homosexuality is forbidden, understand that we cannot judge someone and that the issue of religion is separate from the civil laws that should be passed to ensure equality before the law," she said. "The majority of people who object to the Safe Schools program have no understanding of what is actually taught 


Safe Schools Coalition Australia - Wikipedia
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Safe Schools: Everything you need to know about the controversial ...
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Feb 26, 2016 - The Safe Schools Coalition in Australia provides a national, ... to provide an educationframework to help LGBTQI teens deal with daily issues and ... An anti-gay group called for its members to ruin a same-sex formal, people ...

Safe Schools Coalition Australia - You're Teaching Our Children What?
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We would like to raise awareness of a radical new program being introduced into our schools framed as an anti-bullying program; it is called the Safe Schools ...

The reality of Safe Schools: more a life-saving support than queer ...
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Dec 13, 2016 - In Australia, Safe Schools is the target; if there is anxiety about the pace of ... some aspects of it, too, especially its “queer theory” framework. ... same-sex marriage, falling into line with thenational party's position at the time.

Safe Schools Coalition: sexual politics in the classroom - The Australian
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Feb 13, 2016 - Half the students pretend they are with someone of the same sex; the ... Safe SchoolsCoalition national program director Sally Richardson tells ... “We have students with gender identityissues in our schools and it's ..... it conforms with overall framework of acceptable identity politics and it "feels" authentic.

Who we are - Safe Schools Coalition Australia
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Safe Schools Coalition Australia is a national network of organisations working with schools to createsafer and more inclusive environments for same sex ... All students have a right to feel safe and belong as part of the school community.

Safe Schools Coalition Australia | Department of Education and Training
https://www.education.gov.au/safe-schools-coalition-australia
Nov 24, 2016 - The Safe Schools Coalition Australia (SSCA) is the first national ... safe and supportive school environments for same sex attracted, intersex and ... The SSCA aligns with the National Safe Schools Framework which assists ...

MEDIA RELEASE: "Safe Schools", Gay recruitment & Gay "marriage ...
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Feb 10, 2016 - Australian Marriage | Think of the Child. ... "Safe Schools" seems more about homosexual recruitment than preventing bullying. “Given today’s coverage in The Australian, we call on the Federal Coalition Government to put a stop to the moral damage that the gay-lobby drafted “Safe Schools” programme is doing to our children and grandchildren”, said Dr David van Gend, a GP and president of the Australian Marriage Forum.

“And all Australian parents need to understand that voting for genderless “marriage” means they will lose all power to resist radical genderless sex-education - "Safe Schools" on steroids. Right now, we can say no as parents, but when gay “marriage” is the law of the land we will be powerless.

“The question is whether the “Safe Schools” material amounts to a calculated homosexual recruitment programme. Especially with the documented links from Safe Schools to Minus 18 and so to adult gay social clubs / bars and the rest. All with the Coalition government’s blessing.

“All forms of bullying at school can be addressed by a comprehensive programme; we do not need radically sexualised, frankly indecent material like this being snuck in under the cloak of “bullying prevention”, Dr van Gend said.   “In any case there is no good evidence that gay-identified kids are bullied more overall than other kids, since there are so many reasons to be bullied. One large, statistically valid, controlled study (King, Br.J.Psych.2003) finds no difference whatsoever in levels of bullying reported by gay men versus heterosexual men – whether verbal or physical, whether at school or subsequently.[i]

Why The Safe Schools Coalition Is So Important
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Feb 26, 2016 - The school LGBTI program, the Safe Schools Coalition, has become such a ... to theframework, that it has almost become easy to overlook what is ... One in five lesbian, gay or bisexualAustralians are currently experiencing depression, more than triple the national rate, while one in three experience an ...

Supporting Safe Schools | NSW Teachers Federation
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NEW Law · Federation Conference Centre · Teachers Health » .... The National Safe Schools Frameworkfrom MCEECDYA provides the overarching ... Safe Schools Coalition Australia is a national coalition of organisations and schools ... to create safe and inclusive school environments for same sex attracted, intersex and ...

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