I just spent my evening reading Fred Nile’s publication “Family World News” Volume 18 Number 9 (September 2011), which had been brought to my attention as a collection of objections to ethics classes. I was not surprised to find titles such as “Ethics Classes: The Case Against” and “Roll Back Children’s Philosophy Classes” but I was surprised by the apparent lack of knowledge and understanding of ethics classes.

The people who are most affected by Fred Nile’s attempts to undermine ethics classes are children – our children! Many of them could be directly impacted by Nile’s proposition to have ethics classes discontinued, but may not know they can do something about this.

Submissions to Committee Inquiring into Ethics Classes – deadline now set for 24th February 2012 On Friday 11th November, less than a year after legislation was passed to allow ethics classes as an option for children not attending SRE, the NSW government was persuaded by Fred Nile of the Christian Democratic Party to establish a more…