Families of preschool students are outraged their children are asked to make "sorry" cards to First Nations people for the actions of colonisers.
listener Kim told Chris O'Keefe that her four-year-old twin grandchildren had participated in a lesson of painting cards apologising to First Nations people on National Sorry Day earlier this year at their preschool in Sydney's south.The other read: "Sorry for hurting the Dharawal people. We will be kind now.""Interesting enough, there was nothing spoken about - they just came home with them.
Other 2GB listeners told O'Keefe their children had learned about the colonisation of Australia in school.
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