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Australian Teachers wear "Bring More Immigrants" t-shirts in classrooms

Posted by EU Times on Dec 11th, 2016 // 1 Comment

3B1D1BBD00000578 4008346 image a 7 1481097027105 — The group is being backed by the education union, but Opposition state education spokesman Nick Wakeling said ‘the classroom isn’t a soapbox for activist teachers’.

Hundreds of teachers at 30 Victorian schools will wear T-shirts promoting the closure of offshore detention camps as of Monday as part of a pro-refugee movement.

Up to 500 educators with Teachers for Refugees will wear shirts emblazoned with ‘Close the Camps, Bring them Here’ in order to open up discussions with students about refugees, such as those being held in Nauru Detention Centre.

The group is being backed by the education union, but Opposition state education spokesman Nick Wakeling told the Herald Sun teachers and their schools should be focusing on raising education standards.

‘The classroom isn’t a soapbox for activist teachers to force their political views on our children,’ he said.

The Teachers for Refugees group said they are trying to fight against the ‘poisonous racism’ from Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.

‘Some of us have taught refugees in offshore camps, or here in the community, and we know that they are denied basic human rights,’ said Melbourne organiser Lucy Honan.

‘We know there are both teachers and students on Nauru and Manus who should be in our schools, not in prison camps.’

Hume Central Secondary College, St Joseph’s Flexible Learning Centre, Williamstown High, St Albans Secondary College are just some of the schools involved in the group’s movement.

3B1D1BC200000578 4008346 image a 1 1481096961342 — Up to 500 teachers from 30 Victorian schools, who are with the group Teachers for Refugees, will wear T-shirts promoting the closure of offshore detention centres as of Monday.

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One Response to " Australian Teachers wear "Bring More Immigrants" t-shirts in classrooms "

overit says:

13/12/2016 at 11:57

hearing the NAPLAN results today…bad
I reckon they should STFU and concentrate on what they are Paid very well to do
teach
the curriculum, however crappy it is( thanks again for nothing Ms juLIAR Gillard!
Seriously ,between this crap and indoctrinating all the warmist crud from tiny tots up..
no wonder they managed to MISS the reading writing and maths and useful skill to survive.
at this rate protesting/activism may as well BE a subject

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