Education

Limit for retired teachers trimmed back to 50 days of work a year Starting in 2020-21, the limit was increased to 95 days a year to help school boards cope with a shortage of trained occasional teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Valerie / March 20, 2024 /

As schools across the province grapple with a shortage of occasional teachers, the Ontario Teachers’ Federation has declined the government’s request to allow retired teachers to work up to 95 days a year.

For the past three years, a retired teacher could work up to 95 days before there was a pension penalty, the idea being to help school boards cope with a shortage of trained occasional teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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That limit has now been reduced back to 50 days annually, where it was before 2020-21.

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Germany: Violence in Berlin schools soars higher in 2023, 5 police interventions every single day

By Valerie / March 20, 2024 /

Every school day last year, the Berlin police had to intervene an average of at least five times on the playground, in a classroom or on the grounds of primary and secondary schools.

Crimes are soaring in Berlin’s school system after a temporary lull during the coronavirus period. The numbers went from 3,796 in 2021 to 6,113 in 2023 in terms of overall crimes. Regarding violent crimes such as assault, robbery, and dangerous threats, this number jumped from 1,133 in 2021 to 2,344 in 2022, showing that these incidents have more than doubled in just one year.

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Elon Musk defends 16-year-old German schoolgirl pulled out of school by police for supporting AfD party on TikTok

By Valerie / March 20, 2024 /

Billionaire Elon Musk has spoken out in the case of 16-year-old schoolgirl Loretta B., who was pulled out of her classroom by police last week because of a TikTok post in support of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

At the end of February, the girl was taken out of class in front of her fellow students and questioned by police, as first reported by German newspaper Junge Freiheit.

In her TikTok post, she asked “What do Germany and the Smurfs have in common: They are both blue.” The post was in reference to the AfD, which has blue party colors.

She had also shared a post that stated that Germany was not just a place on the map, but also home for her.

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How the TDSB manufactured racism

By Iron Will / March 20, 2024 /

The era of New Left transformation

The following discussion concerns the development of radical education and practice in Canada. The recent examination of “the politics of the individuals and the groups that initiated the era of identity-based policy-making in Toronto schools,” by Dr. M in his long-form academic essay, Fulcrum and Pivot, provides the key ingredients for today’s entree of ideas.

In order to access the full essay with extensive footnotes (not found on the web version) download the pdf of Fulcrum and Pivot:

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Hollywokes

By Valerie / March 20, 2024 /

Hollyoaks is a popular soap on Channel 4, its target audience primarily composed of young teenagers and adults between the ages of 16-24. It has a decent rating of 3.6/5 and is enjoyed by 70% of google users, which beats Coronation Street at 68%. However, needless to say, it has become the latest show to follow the pattern of foisting woke gobbledygook on its viewers, by creating an obscene new storyline which involves a 12-year old girl (yes, 12!) questioning her gender identity.

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How the TDSB manufactured racism The era of New Left transformation

By Valerie / March 20, 2024 /

The following discussion concerns the development of radical education and practice in Canada. The recent examination of “the politics of the individuals and the groups that initiated the era of identity-based policy-making in Toronto schools,” by Dr. M in his long-form academic essay, Fulcrum and Pivot, provides the key ingredients for today’s entree of ideas.

In order to access the full essay with extensive footnotes (not found on the web

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The mental health crisis does not explain wokeness: Eric Kaufmann in UnHerd Until we can correctly address the real cause of wokeness, we w

By Valerie / March 19, 2024 /

Today’s mental health crisis, especially among young people, does not explain the rise of “wokeness”.

Rather, this cultural socialist belief system evolved from Left and liberal sources first, as well as bad therapeutic ideas, but owes little to society’s actual mental health.

Recently, a large-scale academic study from Finland discovered that woke individuals are more likely to be unhappy, anxious and depressed than other people. Other psychologists have likewise noticed that people on the political Left report elevated mental health problems compared to those on the Right. Jonathan Haidt and Zach Goldberg, in studying the post-2010s teen mental health crisis, find that young liberals are two or three times more likely to report mental health problems than young conservatives.

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Classroom supplies ‘scarce’ amid schools board’s $18.5M deficit: Teacher

By Valerie / March 19, 2024 /

Classroom supplies in the cash-strapped Thames Valley District school board are so scarce many teachers say they’re buying them themselves as the board deals with an $18-million budget shortfall.

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Quebec government launches education dashboard Education Minister Bernard Drainville says it will give network stakeholders access to “relevant and reliable information at the right time.”

By Valerie / March 19, 2024 /

Quebec government launches education dashboard
Education Minister Bernard Drainville says it will give network stakeholders access to “relevant and reliable information at the right time.”

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Powerful new AI can predict people’s attitudes to vaccines

By Roli / March 18, 2024 /

A powerful new tool in artificial intelligence is able to predict whether someone is willing to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

The predictive system uses a small set of data from demographics and personal judgments such as aversion to risk or loss.

The findings frame a new technology that could have broad applications for predicting mental health and result in more effective public health campaigns.

A team led by researchers at the University of Cincinnati and Northwestern University created a predictive model using an integrated system of mathematical equations describing the lawful patterns in reward and aversion judgment with machine learning.

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