Not In Our
Classrooms.
Explicit material is being shown to Australian school children without their parents' knowledge or consent. No warning. No opt-out. No say. We're saying enough.
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Protect our Kids is a grassroots
Australian campaign —
We are parents, grandparents, teachers and clinicians. We are not a political party, and we are not funded by one.
We came together because children in Australian schools are being shown sexually explicit material — under the banner of education — and their families are the last to know.
In most cases it isn't even a teacher delivering it. It's a third-party provider, licensed to walk into the classroom with its own materials, its own funding and its own agenda.
We are asking for one thing: parents decide. Not a provider, not a department — the people raising the child.
See for yourself
Most parents have never
seen the material.
It's delivered in a single session by an outside provider, and by the time a child mentions it — if they mention it — the visit is over.
So we won't describe it for you. Watch someone who has seen it describe it, and decide for yourself whether you would have agreed to it.
Content warning: this discussion describes sexually explicit material shown to school-aged children.
Seen enough?
So have we.
Who's actually in the classroom
It isn't your child's teacher.
Relationships and sexuality education in Australian schools is largely delivered by outside organisations — a different one in every state and territory. They write their own materials, set their own agenda and answer to their own boards. No parent appointed them, and no parent can remove them. Most have never even heard their name.
Queensland
True Relationships & Reproductive Health
Delivers relationships and sexuality education in Queensland schools. An independent organisation with its own board, its own funding and its own teaching materials — not part of the education department, and not answerable to you.
Read their materialNew South Wales
Family Planning Australia
Delivers relationships and sexuality education in New South Wales schools. An independent organisation with its own board, its own funding and its own teaching materials — not part of the education department, and not answerable to you.
Read their materialVictoria
Sexual Health Victoria
Delivers relationships and sexuality education in Victoria schools. An independent organisation with its own board, its own funding and its own teaching materials — not part of the education department, and not answerable to you.
Read their materialSouth Australia
SHINE SA
Delivers relationships and sexuality education in South Australia schools. An independent organisation with its own board, its own funding and its own teaching materials — not part of the education department, and not answerable to you.
Read their materialWestern Australia
Sexual Health Quarters
Delivers relationships and sexuality education in Western Australia schools. An independent organisation with its own board, its own funding and its own teaching materials — not part of the education department, and not answerable to you.
Read their materialTasmania
Family Planning Tasmania
Delivers relationships and sexuality education in Tasmania schools. An independent organisation with its own board, its own funding and its own teaching materials — not part of the education department, and not answerable to you.
Read their materialAustralian Capital Territory
Sexual Health & Family Planning ACT
Delivers relationships and sexuality education in Australian Capital Territory schools. An independent organisation with its own board, its own funding and its own teaching materials — not part of the education department, and not answerable to you.
Read their materialNorthern Territory
Family Planning Welfare Association of NT
Delivers relationships and sexuality education in Northern Territory schools. An independent organisation with its own board, its own funding and its own teaching materials — not part of the education department, and not answerable to you.
Read their materialSelect a state to see who holds the contract where you live. These organisations publish their own programs — we link straight to them so you can read the material first-hand, rather than take our word for it.
Our demands
What we're asking for.
Restore innocence
Children are being shown sexually explicit images and ideas years before they have any way to make sense of them. Childhood is short, and it does not come back. Take explicit material out of primary classrooms and let kids be kids for the few years they get.
Publish who's in the classroom
A classroom runs on trust. Outside providers with their own funding and their own agenda should not get unsupervised access to that trust. Publish every provider, program and resource entering a school — and make every session one a parent could sit in on.
Greater parental rights in education
Parents, not providers, are responsible for their children's moral formation. That means advance access to the actual materials, a genuine opt-out with no penalty to the child, and the final say — written into law, not left to school policy.
Three demands.
One signature.
What happens next
You've signed.
Now take it to your school.
A signature counts. A parent standing in front of a principal counts for more. Most people want to say something and don't know where to start — so we wrote it for you.
The Parent Action Kit
Free
Download it, use it this week
- A template letter to your principal, ready to send
- The exact questions to ask about outside providers
- How to request the actual teaching materials, in writing
- Your state's opt-out process, step by step
- What to do if the school says no
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- Keeps the Parent Action Kit free for every family
- Funds submissions to state education departments
- Pays for the research behind every claim we make
- We take no government funding and no party funding
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