Two articles in The Guardian today which bear some thinking about. 1. A study has been conducted which seems to suggest that if a child is abused, that child will do better in the long term if sie is removed from hir family and not returned. That may well be what the study found. And [...]
Posts Tagged ‘education’
Quick hit: the best interests of the child
Posted in children, education, human rights, tagged abuse, children, disability rights, disablism, discrimination, education, human rights, institutional ableism, institutional discrimination, parenting, parents, teaching on 14 September 2010 | 3 Comments »
How immoral to acknowledge to kids that yes, sex happens
Posted in children, education, tagged children, choice, community, education, health, human rights, illogic, rape, religion on 8 November 2009 | 12 Comments »
This post is inspired to some extent by Wildly Parenthetical’s post on sex ed – although I’ve thought for a very long time that sex ed should be a normal part of education generally (from a young age). I don’t know the best way to integrate it (but then, I’m not a teacher). However, I [...]
Music company funded Roxanne Shante’s PhD
Posted in awesome, teaspoons, tagged activism, activism against racism, awesomeness, education, feminism, teaspoons on 28 August 2009 | 1 Comment »
ETA: Or maybe not! Via —————– This post really warmed my heart. Roxanne Shante – a teen rapper in the 1980s – had a contract with Warner Music. It included a clause that the company would pay for Shante’s education for the rest of her life. She made them pay up. Including for her PhD. [...]
Muslim school in Camden rejected by the Court
Posted in law, tagged discrimination, education, injustice, islamophobia, law, racism, racism in Australia on 5 June 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Land and Environment Court has dismissed the appeal by the Quranic Society against a decision by Camden Municipal Council not to allow a Muslim school in the area. I haven’t read the decision yet – if I get the chance to do so next week, I may post about it – but the ABC [...]
Discrimination in the provision of education
Posted in Indigenous Australians, Indigenous rights, Reconciliation Week, tagged children, community, education, human rights, Indigenous rights, injustice, privilege, racism, racism against Indigenous Australians, racism in Australia, Reconciliation Week on 31 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You’ll probably see some of the themes of my posts during this week, Reconciliation Week, being revisited in my posts for NAIDOC Week in a month or so. That’s because, as I mentioned in my previous post, Reconciliation Week sort of snuck up on me, and that means I don’t have a great deal of [...]
How our system protects rights – an example
Posted in human rights, law, tagged discrimination, education, islamophobia, justice, law, racism on 15 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was cheered to see the report of the decision of a judge of the Land and Environment Court, upholding the decision of a commissioner of that court, granting approval to an Islamic school in Bankstown. I don’t particularly agree with the idea of religious schools at all, but the real issue here is the [...]
Calling all academic mothers!
Posted in parenting, teaspoons, tagged activism, children, education, employment, family, media, parenting, parents, teaspoons, women in media on 16 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Are you, or have you ever been, a mother academic? There’s a call for papers out for a collection of both narratives & articles about academic motherhood. (That takes you to a pdf, so if you don’t like those, try the general page here – the “Being a Mother Academic” link takes you to the [...]
I always thought Hillsong were scary
Posted in body image, children, sexism, tagged body image, children, education, gender myths, gender roles, religion, sexism on 25 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now I know they are. The program, called Shine, was created by the Hillsong Church. It is being run in at least 20 NSW public schools, numerous small community organisations and within the juvenile justice system. Hillsong describes Shine as a “practical, life-equipping, values-based course” and its website is awash with glowing testimonials from young [...]

