School Vouchers – GTA parents want modernized sex-ed curriculum back, early numbers show – December 20, 2018,
This blog post is in response to the propaganda article written by Canadian State media source, the Crown Corporation known as the CBC. Now, what this article is inadvertently doing is agree with a school voucher system, however, they have to use the following words:
“An overwhelming majority of people in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTAH), who took part in consultations, want the modernized 2015 sex-ed curriculum reinstated”
Now, if you read the words carefully and cite their source which is ForTheParents.ca a few things will stand out, first thing is that the ForTheParents.ca domain name is forwarded to the ontario.ca/page/for-the-parents webpage and as of December 20, 2018, it states the following:
2018 Consultation: Education in Ontario
The telephone town hall sessions, open submission form and online survey are now closed.We thank everyone who participated as your input will help to inform our work going forward. Our goal is to prepare Ontario students for success, improve their academic achievement and equip them with the skills they need.
Now, if you’re an Ontario parent that never heard of this, you might wonder why? Well, the answer is simple, according to the same CBC article:
CBC News received a total of 2,502 responses made during the first day the government site opened. Of those, 1,098 are from the GTHA. Nearly 900 were in support of bringing the 2015 curriculum back, while only 12 respondents said they were for the 1998 curriculum.
Now, again currently the site is closed, one would assume that they’d keep that survey opened longer so more people could at least participate, but why bother doing that right? As many people that know about how surveys operate, typically the people most interested in keeping the 2015 curriculum Ontario Sex Ed curriculum would obviously be more inclined to fill out the survey by the due date, that’s assuming that the survey is even a legitimate survey, to begin with.
Propaganda aside, what this to me is actually saying is that School Vouchers should be considered. I actually think school vouchers solve this problem, I’d actually like to see a real survey conducted because I’d like to see what parents really think. Maybe this is me living in my own bubble, but all the Parents I know are glad the 2015 curriculum is gone, it’s an issue that the parents I spoke too would rather move on from.
Most of the parents I speak to work for a living and quite frankly they don’t have time to fill out general surveys let alone online surveys, what they don’t like is the confusion the 2015 curriculum was causing. Even students currently taking ECE will tell you, that Kathleen Wynne’s 2015 curriculum wasn’t well thought out as a lot of the terminology and government enforcement borders on subjectivity, which again puts students and teachers in a bad place.
So to solve this I personally think School Vouchers are a good idea. There’s a problem in Ontario’s public school system and it’s that our teachers are tenured and protected, so Kathleen Wynne’s 2015 curriculum is pretty hard to even enforce, because of the subjectivity most teachers really have their hands tied, however with that said I do think that new teachers might be able to better deal with it, with a voucher system parents can choose what schools they send their children too so for those parents that want Kathleen Wynne’s 2015 curriculum they should go to schools that adhere to those parents demands.
Now, as many of you know, there’s no way in hell I’ll send my children to a public school, however, I do believe in Public Schools and education for our youth. My personal school voucher program wouldn’t include religous schools(including catholic schools) of any kind, however, in my school voucher program, secular schools of all types would be allowed to participate in the 2015 curricula if they wanted too, with that said all schools in the voucher program wouldn’t be alllowed raise their costs above the cost of the vouchers. I personally think this method would better deal with problems like these.
Because the bottom line is people are different, children’s needs are different and I don’t think any parent should be forced to adhere to Kathleen Wynne’s 2015 curriculum. Kathleen Wynne’s 2015 curriculum is the equivalent to forcing a secular child to go to a religious school. Children shouldn’t be forced to subjugate themselves to this, and parents shouldn’t be forced to follow the decrees of Aristocratic social classes, again this is why I prefer school vouchers, this is why I prefer sending my children to Private Schools.
Ontario’s Public School system was traumatizing for me primarily because the teachers took orders from the government, answers to my questions weren’t being answered, 20+ students to 1 teacher, teachers going on strike, a one size fits all approach to teaching? No choice, no other options for the poor? I hate just thinking about public schooling.
Kathleen Wynne’s curriculum is force feeding a particular secular belief in children’s minds. When you’re forcing people an ideology rooted in subjectivity, it usually has unintended consequences, often the consequence by government intervention is the creation of an entitled or protected class, who gain special perks and priviledges similar to the way Aristicratic social classes gain priviledges not given the rest of society.
These entitled people often inadvertently offend people because throughout their lives their personal beliefs hadn’t been challenged and because these types often can’t formulate a constructive argument to defend themselves, they typically return to the protected State that gave them power and request more power to quiet what appears to be their hostile detractors.
There’s only so much the government can do for society and the moment the government oversteps its boundaries and becomes less neutral, the people it serves will be fractured and once this happens, once this precedent is set it will be hard to fit back all the fractured pieces back into place. This is true in most war-torn countries, a leader decides to make his/her preferred group a protected class, the people who are part of this protected class use their newfound powers to oppress those they believe oppressed them and thus a revenge cycle is born and war starts.
Ontario is beautiful, it’s not perfect but I advise my readers that they shouldn’t replace prior Aristocratic social classes with a new equivilent, the result is usually a revolution and I don’t want to see everything we’ve built in Canada destroyed by power hungry ideologist groups.
You can read the CBC article below for yourself. The title of the article below is very misleading and the article although informative is lacking any substance.
GTA parents want modernized sex-ed curriculum back, early numbers show
Interesting times ahead.