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Two points here: 

1) There's a school in Victoria run by John Marsden (yes, the author of Tomorrow When The War Began) that includes chess in their curriculum. It's called Candlebark and runs from P-10. Whether or not the students are churning out positive outcomes doesn't matter as such, as part of their curriculum also includes actually encouraging life skills in the children, which to me is more important at the end of the day. (For instance, the children will use axes and chainsaws-supervised of course!-to do things, they will play rough games like British Bulldog, they will allow kids to light fires and actually help light the stoves in the classrooms)

2) At the risk of sounding like a tired old cliche, can we please strip the curriculum down to 8 areas of learning and leave it at that? Apart from sex education and perhaps drug/alcohol education, everything else needs to be removed from the curriculum that does not explicitly fit into the 8 main areas of learning. (The reason why I put exceptions to the two above boil down to "a crapton of misinformation out there and porn/Dolly/Girlfriend/Cleo/Cosmo do not a reliable resource make". Yes, I am in support of sex ed for 5-year-olds and you can do it without referring to sexually explicit content: at that age, you might look at child protection and about family structures and relationships (ie forming positive friendships with girls or boys). By the time the kid is 8, you'd be having the "where do babies come from talk", Grade 6/7 the typical puberty talk and from Grade 7 and up, the same old sex ed curriculum that most schools should have taught. For drug/alcohol education, same deal: 5-8 year olds would have the same stuff as the sex ed curriculum, by the time the kid is 8, talking about coping with bad feelings, by the time they're older, talking about alcohol, then as they get older, drugs.)
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