When we place police in schools, what message are we teaching?
Everyone has the right to a culturally safe and responsive education. The school system in Australia is boasted as one of the finest in the world with the promise of high standards of learning.1 This promise includes individual learning programs in recognition that the one-size fits all approach will not serve students who require additional learning support. The overarching ethos of the national school curriculum aims to ‘develop students into independent and successful learners with respect for themselves, their peers and global society.’2