Highly politicised, “woke” curriculums and disruptive classrooms have led to less engaging lessons, pushing many young Australians to call it quits before graduating high school.
Australian education expert Kevin Donnelly said the decade-low high school retention rates are the result of students becoming disengaged throughout COVID as they lost face-to-face interaction with their peers and teachers.
“When you look at the high rates of students not wanting to go to school, or refusing to go to school … one of the reasons is COVID,” he told The Epoch Times.
“Another reason is that when you look at the curriculum over the last 10 to 20 years—it’s not just Australia—the curriculums become very politically correct and woke….