It’s NAIDOC Week and they don’t want your child to forget it
Children are taught concepts such as ‘invasion’ and ‘decolonisation’, promoting a grievance-based narrative that casts Aboriginal Australians as perpetual victims and others as oppressors – fostering division and resentment, not understanding.
And this saturation is not limited to NAIDOC Week alone. In addition to NAIDOC week, there is National Reconciliation Week and Sorry Day, as well as a range of other individual days scheduled in the calendar.
The tone of these ‘celebrations’ is not one of a balanced understanding of history or of reconciliation, as is often claimed. The undertone messaging promulgates an uncritical, divisive, activist agenda of victimhood, grievance and reparation, wrapped up in slogans and pretty wrist bands for children as young as five.
By contrast, Australia Day is presented in a negative light, not as a cause for celebration of national unity or democratic achievement. Instead, Australia Day is presented as a day of invasion, mourning and dispossession, of guilt and grievance. Schools are told it is a ‘day of mourning’, and students are more likely to be given a lesson in anti-colonisation than anything about the achievements of a free and prosperous nation. Colouring-in sheets of the Australian flag, wristbands saying ‘Proud to be Australian’, or songs about unity or democracy are conspicuously absent.
https://ipa.org.au/curriculum/its-naidoc-week-and-they-dont-want-your-child-to-f...The struggle for the
soul of the coming generations (a.k.a. education) is ongoing. As the poet of Crawford, Texas, asked, 'Is our children learning?' and what?
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