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Speaker 1: The teachers' unions warning about a rising tide of extremism

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Speaker 1: in our schools. Read the story. What's the actual problem?

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to figure out today. Apparently some

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Speaker 1: kids say the Trump boys, I like a majority of Americans.

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Speaker 1: Presumably a few kids here support the Republican Party or

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Speaker 1: the Mega Movement. The other problem apparently some schoolgirls say

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Speaker 1: they want to be traad wives, which means traditional wives.

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Speaker 1: I have children, stay at home and raise them. Now,

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Speaker 1: that's about as much detail as I could glean from

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Speaker 1: this particular story that was in the news today and

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Speaker 1: is doing the rounds on social media, and the moral

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Speaker 1: of the story was from the unions. The government needs

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Speaker 1: to take action on this. Here's the problem. Children are

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Speaker 1: allowed to have political views, they are allowed to have

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Speaker 1: societal views. Teachers are not there to police politics. Your

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Speaker 1: job is apolitical, and we need to encourage critical thinking,

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Speaker 1: not legislate against it. There will be people who read

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Speaker 1: that story and think, here we go again with the

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Speaker 1: brainwashing thing. You know, your job is education, not indoctrination.

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Speaker 1: The reality is not all girls will go on to

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Speaker 1: be the Reserve Bank governor, nor will all boys. Not

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Speaker 1: all boys will grow up to marry women. Hello, everyone's different,

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Speaker 1: is my point. But you can't embrace kids changing genders

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Speaker 1: and then demand state and divention when a girl says

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Speaker 1: she wants to get married and have kids. I'm no conservative,

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Speaker 1: far from it, but I do hear from a lot

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Speaker 1: of parents who've kind of feel like they've lost faith

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Speaker 1: in the education system, or at least some teachers within it.

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Speaker 1: If a girl wants to grow up to be a mum,

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Speaker 1: is that radical or is that choice? If a kid

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Speaker 1: wants to support Donald Trump? Is that radical? Or is

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Speaker 1: that choice? Should they be branded an extremist for holding

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Speaker 1: those views or should those views be used as a

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Speaker 1: springboard for a healthy debate about society. Could this not

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Speaker 1: be an opportunity to introduce and encourage some critical thinking

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