Teaching kids to hate Australia

This is what happens when you tell lies about our history for political purposes.   Even for "good" reasons and apparently worthy causes.   This naive child no doubt honestly believes that her rather badly written essay actually depicts the truth about the normal state of affairs in Queensland and elsewhere in Australia.   (And seriously, in terms of the quality of the writing, this was the best piece produced? If so, it is another indicator of just how the standard of education received by kids these days has gone down. Plus, as an indicator of how too much schooling these days consists of indoctrination in fashionable causes, apparently three of the other five essays were global warming doomsday scenarios. Maybe if they had learnt some real geology and not ersatz "environmental studies" they would have had some idea as to just how unlikely such doom mongering is!)   I suppose it is necessary to labour what should be obvious, but may be missed. None of this is to deny that aboriginal people suffered because of dispossession and continue to suffer the effects of dispossession.   But what kind of debauched and dishonest version of our history has been taught to children where they can produce such factually absurd rubbish? How children are taught to loathe us  Andrew Bolt Monday, June 29, 2009 at 12:18pm     How should students celebrate Queensland’s 150th birthday? Well, how about we get them to write something creative, and then reward those who imagine the state as its most violent, racist worst?   So here’s the competition launched by the Department of Education and Training. And here’s excerpts from the winning essay for years 11 and 12: Maria saw a few of the other mothers around the mission begging at the foot of a very well dressed white man. She didn’t understand at first, but then realised he had taken their children. She ran to the school and took Luke home and cradled him in her arms until dark…   Two days later Maria was dragged out of her hut as she was making breakfast for Luke and questioned by a white government official about her son’s strange absence from school and lack of interaction with other children… The official declared that Luke was to be taken out of her care and placed in a white family… The official seized her by the neck of her mandatory frilly European dress and spat in her face…   The next day, as Maria made Luke breakfast, there was a loud thud and the door to their hut came crashing to the ground. The culprit was the official from yesterday; he had two more officials with him. As he came towards Maria and Luke and put the gun to Maria’s temple, as she trembled with fear, he blew a puff of his cigarette straight into her mouth. She instinctively reached toward Luke but the officials were faster; one seized Maria and the other grabbed Luke, and led him out the door and to a car parked only a few meters away. One official let go of Maria but the fierce official from the day before continued to hold the gun to her face; he dismissed the other official and told Maria they had unfinished business; He forced Maria to the ground and hit her over the head with his gun, knocking her unconscious. He found it easier to deal with the black scum when they were barely alive. He ripped her dress to shreds and forced himself on top of her, he then proceeded to repeatedly hit her and burn her with his cigarette. When he was tired of this, he raped her and stuffed her naked body in the boot of the car outside, with the son inside. As the boy screamed out for his mother the officer turned around and slapped the boy across the face, sending his head into the side of the car door. Happy birthday, Queensland!  You’ve taught your children to be so grateful for ... for…

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