I’m sick of losing valuable curriculum time for the purposes of teaching yet another program or peddling yet another campaign. Whilst I believe that women should be able to breastfeed whenever and wherever they choose to, I don’t see why that message has to interfere with a literacy or maths lesson:
TEENAGERS may be taught in school that it is OK to breastfeed in public.
The Australian Breastfeeding Association wants future generations of mums and dads to view public breastfeeding as acceptable as seeing breasts on TV, in movies and in advertising.
Melbourne TV presenter Andi Lew is joining the awareness campaign, addressing a group of female students at Lalor Secondary College during an ABA presentation this week.
The ABA said research had shown exposure to breastfeeding at an early age positively influenced attitudes later in life.
“The evidence is accumulating that breastfeeding needs to be promoted in schools,” ABA spokeswoman Karen Ingram said yesterday.
“Despite every national and international health authority recommending exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of a baby’s life, the latest research suggests that the mums and dads of the future don’t fully grasp the importance of breastfeeding.
Please stop taking the workload of teachers for granted by making them continually stop what they are doing in the name of yet another campaign? Our primary job is to teach literacy, numeracy and science, please let us leave the breastfeeding advice to parents and doctors?
“They are unlikely to breastfeed in public because they feel it’s embarrassing.
Topical Teaching 