Alex Antic (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It has become apparent that sending your child to a South Australian public school might be the worst thing you could ever do to them. We all know that the education system has been thoroughly captured by progressives and those who benefit from big-state ideology, but every now and then it's helpful to be reminded with a concrete example of how insane some of this stuff has become.

It's come to my attention that a public school in Adelaide has developed a points system rewarding students for their woke actions, and I've got the document to prove it. Under this woke social credit system, five points are awarded to a student who is seen to be 'apologising and correcting themselves or someone else for using incorrect pronouns' or 'challenging racial, sexual or homophobic language or actions' and even 'authentically using an acknowledgement of country before a presentation in class'. Remember: it's got to be authentic. There will be none of these half-hearted welcomes to country for these schools.

Now, in a public school, students spend around six hours a day with an activist curriculum which coaches them into gender dysphoria, hatred of white people and excessive self-awareness about their so-called privilege. If your child in South Australia decides that they want to switch genders thanks to a video they saw on TikTok, the school may even encourage them to pursue the path of puberty blockers against your wishes. That's in the SA Department for Education's own documents. To top it off, this particular school penalises non-compliance with this social credit system.

It's clear our public education system no longer educates children but brainwashes them in the hope of shaping them into activists. The Marxists are moving into the next stage of their craven operation. They're doubling down on capturing our children and developing the next generation of child woke soldiers.