A new documentary by a recent graduate of Canada’s education system explores how classrooms have become ideological battlegrounds, making the case that modern ideologies are taking precedence over long-standing educational values like virtue and the pursuit of truth.
Released on Nov. 6, “The Great Indoctrination” is a documentary by Canadian filmmaker Myles Vosylius about what he describes as a “crisis of education in the West.”
Are kids these days doomed?
A concerned middle school teacher recently took to social media to explain the lack of reading and problem-solving skills in her teen students.
“I don’t understand how these kids ended up at this point,” a Dallas, Texas, teacher named Ms. L said about her 8th-grade students in a now-viral TikTok video.
Provincial student assessment is approaching a moment of reckoning. Canada’s flagship agency, the Ontario Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO), is now under review. Thirty years after its creation, Education Minister Paul Calandra announced a fresh review of the independent student testing agency earlier this month, triggered by another round of disappointing provincial test results. It’s time to bolster EQAO and encourage other provinces to build upon the lessons.
I get the impression that education in Ontario’s urban centres has progressed to the don’t offend the Muslims stage.
Test them on flat earth theory. Surprise us all.
The overall objective of the Million People March 4 Children on Saturday is to “protect parents’ rights” and “our children from indoctrination.”
But while the expected massive march is designed to fight governments from teaching children in schools an alternative sex curriculum, participants also plan to call out Toronto’s decision to pay for municipal staff gender operations – the subject of my Friday column.
Not seeing anything on Twitter that is current, lots from years past.
Abraham Lincoln famously said, “The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next.” Truer words were never spoken.
The Ontario education system is in free fall. For the past 20 years, education policies infused by Marxist theories that had been incubating for decades in the universities, then floridly realized in practice, have resulted in tripartite failure: failure to provide effective pedagogy; failure to provide a psychologically safe environment for politically incorrect identity groups; and failure to protect both children and teachers from physical abuse. The situation is dire.
As Toronto public school students enjoy a summer full of camps, play and sports, let’s hope the system that they return to in September undergoes significant change.
Public education in Ontario has become a mess. That is why it is welcome news that the provincial government has appointed supervisors to take over a number of school boards across the province, including the Toronto District School Board (TDSB)
New Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra wants to fix apparent financial incompetence at some of Ontario’s largest school boards, and so he should. The problem is the fixes will only be temporary unless the provincial government is willing to make fundamental changes in the way school boards are run.
Ontario’s education governance is designed to fail. Trustees are elected, but not responsible for the taxes that pay for the province’s schools. This inherent lack of responsibility has turned some boards into lobby groups for higher spending. Why not demand more if you don’t have to ask voters to pay for it?
If this is a serious effort it may be a backhanded way of ridding school boards of their DEI Komisar’s and the teacher’s union’s toxic agenda.
Problems with political activism and antisemitism seeping into Canadian schools came to the fore last fall after Toronto students were taken to a rally against environmental contamination on an Indigenous reserve that quickly descended into an anti-Israel hate-fest. But this was only the tip of the iceberg: our schools have become cesspools of Jew-hatred and woke identity politics, yet most of the time, the public never hears about it.
Judging by a teachers’ union magazine, the keys to education are not math, grammar or history but climate-change activism
The miserable state of Canada’s K-12 public education, well documented by international tests showing steadily declining scores for two decades, already has many parents deeply concerned. Their equanimity will not be improved by the Spring 2025 issue of ETFO Voice, published by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario. It expresses no concern that 50 per cent of Grade 6 students fail to meet provincial standards in math and contains no plans for improving academic achievement. Instead, the ETFO seems singularly focused on moulding Ontario’s public-school children into a generation of Greta Thunbergs.
Ford could fix this but won’t.
The sole determinant of a child’s gender in Prince Edward Island schools is self-identification, per ministerial decree. In Edmonton, the public school board has a new policy to “Work towards the removal of institutional and individual barriers related to heteronormativity and cisnormativity.” In New Brunswick, the school curriculum aims to mould students into “reconciliation leaders” who promote equity.
Canadians pay a lot of taxes. Federal sales tax, provincial sales tax, income tax, carbon tax, you name it. But what value are we getting for all of those dollars that end up in the government’s pockets?
When it comes to the K-12 public education system, Canadians believe the system has gone in the wrong direction.
According to a new study published by the Fraser Institute, if Canada wants to remain competitive with emerging economies around the world, we must increase our math, science and reading scores — and not simply pursue high levels of “equity and inclusion” as the primary goal for our schools.
Must be easier than actually teaching.
Someone has to think of the children.
Woke teacher-in-training has a meltdown at the prospect of not being able to hide if a child under 16 is transitioning to another gender from their parents in New Brunswick.
Tell me this is not a cult. pic.twitter.com/8Vfh5lsf8n
— Cosmin Dzsurdzsa 🇷🇴 (@cosminDZS) June 10, 2023
More of the same shit … University of Cincinnati gender studies professor, 28, DEFENDS giving student ZERO grade for using phrase ‘biological women’: Brags about failing students who offend her woke beliefs on gender and race
Students at a number of Catholic schools in York Region in the Greater Toronto Area held walkouts Thursday to demonstrate against the board’s recent decision not to fly the Pride flag outside of their headquarters during Pride month. But at one school, those protests took an unexpected turn.
Dozens of students participated in the walkout at St. Brother Andre in Markham.
“Everyone has a right to love who they want to love and I believe the York District Catholic School Board has infringed upon that,” said student Angelina Martin.
First I heard that failure to raise a flag is an infringement of your rights but over the top dramatics have long been the MO of groomers. They are so self-important the entire world is against them, 24/7. I don’t know how I find time to sleep at all!
There is video of the school protest at the link above, I am wondering if the students who trashed the groomer banners were Muslim or a Mix. It seems a closely held secret.
Note the mix of protesters in Ottawa in the video below. The alliance of Muslims and Christians against the groomers got its start in the US and it is scaring the bejeebers out of the left. This is not the intersectionality they had hoped for.
“LEAVE OUR KIDS ALONE” – Muslims and Christians unite on the streets of Ottawa, trampling the Gender Ideology Flag. This is a turning point. Let kids be kids. pic.twitter.com/ATvXfzMPao
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) June 9, 2023
Justin Trudeau is going to find himself between a rock and a hard place real soon. While he and his party are in woke overdrive a segment of his voter base has had enough. pic.twitter.com/zxrF2zhAKK
— Glenda M 🇨🇦 (@McfarlaneGlenda) June 9, 2023
Well at least he had an answer.
True North’s @noahrjarvis asks @PierrePoilievre to weigh in on New Brunswick’s changes to LGTBQ policy in schools, in which teachers are required to notify parents before they change the use of pronouns and given names of students. pic.twitter.com/VRumONCFnA
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) June 9, 2023
California’s unions prioritise progressivism over fair pay
In 2019, my children’s teachers went on strike for higher pay, and I supported it, which was a bit of a surprise. I’d always thought public-sector unions a mockery of the idea of organised labour — not workers bargaining for a larger share of the value they create, but bureaucrats extracting rents from taxpayers, via politicians. On top of this, I’d trained to be an English teacher. I saw up close the pathetic scholarship and inane doctrines that inform teacher education in American universities. To me, unionised teachers were a convergence of these two unhealthy forces.
With luck it all crumbles into the sea.
