GREATER DANDENONG: ‘Let children be children’
“Let parents be parents and children be children,” South-Eastern Metropolitan MLC Ann-Marie Hermans (pictured) has told State Parliament.
“My constituency question is for the Minister for Education [Ben Carroll],” said Ms Hermans.
“Minister, can you please explain why your government is politicising our schools?
“Schools should be places of education, not indoctrination, but under the Allan Labor Government that principle has been wiped off the whiteboard.
“I recently received an email from a concerned parent – I will simply call the parent Andrew – regarding Labor’s interference in his kid’s primary school in Noble Park.
“Over the last two years the school received a significant volume, a long string, of ministers, including the Premier, at their campus. “So it is no surprise that in their recent newsletter there was a Voice to Parliament item with a ‘yes’ symbol included and details about an inquiry unit which would deal with political issues about immigration.
“Minister, get your ideology and political propaganda out of our classroom and let parents be parents and children be children,” Ms Hermans said.