Education
Rex Murphy: Ontario school board ‘cultivates’ vapid verbiage while its students and teachers suffer
In the new education world, everything counts except real teaching
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Read MoreTwo 14 year-old girls have written an open letter to the Education Secretary Gillian Keegan ahead of the forthcoming Department for Education draft transgender schools guidance. The girls have to remain anonymous for reasons that will become clear by reading their letter. The letter was first published on the website of the excellent Transgender Trend, whose motto is “No child is born in the wrong body”. You can donate here.
Dear Gillian Keegan
With the release of the Department for Education’s transgender guidance quickly approaching, we – two 14 year-old girls in separate secondary schools – want to contribute our thoughts to the discussion. There is a lack of student voices on this issue and it’s vital to have some perspective of what it’s like in a school environment where dissenting voices are stifled, extreme ideologies are presented as fact and girls are injured by boys in mixed-sex sport.
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Read More“We just exploded. My grade 10 class went from 50 [students] to 106, essentially doubled in September of 2020,” says Margaret Dart, vice-principal and online high school teacher at Hope Christian School in Vulcan, Alta. Dart told The Epoch Times that enrolment spiked during COVID as more parents became aware of what their children were learning due to online classes. She said Hope School continues to attract parents pulling their children out of public schools in the face of “critical race theory,” a “woke agenda,” and complaints of gender ideology taught at the expense of academics and basics—reading, writing, arithmetic, and geography.
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Read MoreChildren were forgotten by policymakers during Covid lockdowns because they rarely got seriously ill from the virus itself, a report from University College London has found. The Telegraph has the story.
Infants, children and teenagers endured numerous lockdowns during their most formative years, despite accounting for a diminutive proportion of Covid hospitalisations and deaths.
A group led by University College London (UCL) found that because the elderly and vulnerable were more likely to get sick and die, the development and well-being of children were deprioritised.
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Read More“Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.”
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Read MoreA Regina Sunday school teacher whose home has long been welcome to children has caught the unwelcome attention of the ministry of education.
Lori Aebig and her home have drawn children since she became a Christian 20 years ago. She taught Sunday school and volunteered at a church preschool, and began to follow up with a Bible study for children at her home.
“I’d had friends that I was walking to church with and I was looking after their kids until the parents got off work. Sometimes I would go hang out at their house and with the kids because their mother was late coming home because she was a single parent,” Aebig said in an interview with the Western Standard.
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Read MoreBefore decolonization, deplatforming, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) mandates, Indigenization, Black Lives Matter, safe spaces and the war on merit consumed intellectual life on Canadian campuses, there were the Mohammed cartoons. In February 2006 Mark Mercer, a philosophy professor at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, stood at the door of his colleague Peter March’s office, contemplating the infamous editorial renderings. Originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten a year earlier, the drawings caused an international contretemps (including violent riots) after numerous Islamic organizations and leaders demanded their destruction on the grounds that any printed image of the Muslim prophet is blasphemous.
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Read MoreHave you wondered what made society change so drastically over the past few years? What made people do things they never would have dreamed of before the COVID crisis? What turned friends, families, and colleagues against each other? The world seems to have turned upside down. Documents and announcements made by governments and health authorities confirm that officials around the world used psychological techniques to influence our actions and our attitudes. The CCCA’s Mental Health Research Committee has created a printable brochure outlining some of the techniques used to influence Canadians. References are included. Please share this resource.
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Read MoreAn attorney is calling the recent suspension of a church and preschool from a government food program a “really disturbing example…of religious discrimination.”
Jeremiah Galus, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), told CBN’s Faithwire, the California-based Church of Compassion and Dayspring Learning Center, its preschool program, have been cut off from participating in a federal food program.
“For nearly 20 years, they have been participating in a federal food program that is run nationally by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the USDA, and run locally there in the state of California by the California Department of Social Services,” Galus said. “And this is a church and preschool that serves primarily an immigrant population.”
The attorney said many of the families are in lower income brackets, with 40% qualifying for free food under the federal government.
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Read MoreThe Ontario government said cursive writing and typing will be making a comeback in schools this fall.
“This really is a massive overhaul that aligns with the evidence, is supported by the broader science and by organizations like Dyslexia Canada, who have been clear this approach — invoking phonics, the return to cursive — is going to help build that foundational knowledge and skills and literacy,” said Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce in a Thursday interview with the Toronto Star.
Students will learn how to write in cursive beginning in Grade 3 after almost a generation of students did not have to — much to the displeasure of parents who said their children should at least know how to sign their names.
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