TORONTO — Education Minister Paul Calandra has denied a request to overturn a Catholic school board’s decision not to fly the Pride flag because he cannot interfere in denominational issues, even in boards under supervision.
Trustees at the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board voted two years ago against allowing flags marking Pride and other events.
In American civics classes, children once learned the timeless principles of the Founding and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. Starting in the 1960s, schools shifted away from civics and history, with troubling consequences: today, only 36 percent of Americans can pass the citizenship test required of immigrants.
There’s no such thing as a good teacher’s union is there.
Doug Ford’s government has fired the entire board of Conestoga College citing “evidence of serious financial and governance mismanagement.”
The news from the province comes after the Toronto Sun broke the news that former president John Tibbits was given an exit package worth at least $3.8 million.
I like the moves Ford is making on education but why did it take him so long to be just a little conservative?
Data show racial, language disparities in mandatory Ontario teacher math test
… However, the new data from the fall of 2024 to the fall of 2025 appears to show some wide gaps even after multiple attempts. After three attempts, for example, 92 per cent of white candidates succeeded while 64 per cent of Black teacher candidates were successful.
The numbers also suggest that the vast majority of that one-third of Black teacher candidates who were still unsuccessful after three attempts gave up, and did not try again.
“What really troubles me is the question of how many great teachers did we lose as a result of the barrier that this math test put in place?” Cowley said.
Lord knows the system needs as many math illiterate teachers as possible.
This teaching method, pushed by conservatives, is on the rise
PALM BAY, Fla. — Seniors at Pineapple Cove Classical Academy draw upon the Bible and books from the Western canon to answer a quintessential question in their capstone project: What is the good life?
Children at the K-12 school learn Latin, engage in the Socratic method and write in cursive. The use of technology is rare. Students walk past paintings of historical scenes that include Betsy Ross sewing an American flag and down hallways lined with portraits of the Founding Fathers.
“We are going to honor the creation of our flag. We are going to honor George Washington,” Lisa Wheeler, principal of the Palm Bay campus, said of the school. She wants students to graduate with an “understanding of the Western civilization” and an appreciation for “the great people who founded our country.”
OMG! Those poor children will learn to think for themselves and be capable of making a contribution to society rather than become illiterate drooling multi-colored haired leftist weenies.
Quickly leaping from and locking up his motorized scooter, Toronto Grade 12 student Bilal Rahimi rushed into school during the Monday lunch hour, having missed his morning periods due to caring for an ailing uncle.
“Attendance is pretty important. If you’re not attending school, then you don’t know the stuff. You don’t know the material to pass the tests,” the 18-year-old noted, saying he’s open about absences with teachers, connects with friends to find out what he’s missed and works hard to ensure he’s caught up.
Anyone who is wondering why the Doug Ford government expects to have political cover for making sweeping changes to Ontario’s school boards, effectively neutering the authority of elected trustees in the process, need only look to one of the pages in the background document that was released on Monday.
On it, under the heading “Holding School Board Trustees Accountable,” the government says that many trustees have run huge deficits and “wasted public funds” that were intended for the classroom.
Alberta’s new legislation limiting “ideology” in classrooms is its own type of ideological flag – which is ironic, since one of the changes proposed by Bill 25 is to prohibit, with limited exceptions, the display of all flags other than Canada’s and Alberta’s.
This Bill 25 flag, also known as the “Act to Remove Politics and Ideology from Classrooms and Amend the Education Act, 2026,” is multi-functional. On paper, is it designed to “ensure that classrooms remain neutral”; it also “protect(s) employees from being required to take part in activities that conflict with their personal beliefs” (though their abstention could be perceived as an expression of personal belief, but never mind).
The Alberta government says new legislation would require teachers and school boards to be “neutral” and “impartial” when delivering lessons and crafting a school environment.
Bill 25, An Act to Remove Politics and Ideology from Classrooms and Amend the Education Act, will also bar the display of any flags inside or outside schools, other than the flags of Alberta and Canada, with some exemptions to be revealed later.
Education and Childcare Minister Demetrios Nicolaides tabled the omnibus education bill in the legislature on Tuesday.
With York Catholic becoming the eighth school board to be placed under provincial supervision, we are now in a situation where over one-third of all students in Ontario are attending schools under direct provincial control.
It started with public uproar after the Thames Valley District School Board released expenses showing it had sent its senior staff (not trustees) to a $40,000 retreat in Toronto. While this type of planning and team building exercise is common for executives in the private sector, the idea of public sector workers enjoying a similar perk often provokes resentment and outrage.
2 minutes of research provides all you need to know about education in Ontario.
It’s a wasteful Uber-Woke commie cesspit with a consistent record of poor student outcomes.
The Guardian reports that, in the next two or three years, 50 “higher education providers” — 24 of them within a year — could (just like the providers of other goods-and-services) close down or, as Sally Weale, its education correspondent puts it, “risk exiting the market”. Sally thinks — that is, takes it for granted — that this a bad and unhappy circumstance, to be spoken of as ‘collapse’, ‘threat’, ‘turmoil’, ‘worry’, ‘disorder’, ‘fear’. And no doubt, from the point of view of the providers themselves, that is just what it is. What provider of goods-and-services — no matter what — wants to be forced to exit its market? It is a poor look-out for all the employees thrown out of work, and can’t be a good look on the managers’ own CVs. And then there are all those job-seekers the provider provided with qualifications. If their provider goes bust and out of existence what does that suggest to potential employers about the worth of the goods they were provided with? From the point of view of everyone whose interest is bound up with the provider’s, its exiting the market is, as Sally suggests, very bad news.
Violence in Canadian schools is rising as students’ complex needs are neglected and teachers are stretched thin. The only solution is more boots on the ground
On a June afternoon in 2022, in the hallway of an ivy-covered high school in Ottawa, 15 year-old Matthew Morris was dragged into a bathroom by a fellow student, knocked to the tiled floor and punched and kicked repeatedly in the head. Several students stood around watching, and one filmed the assault on his phone.
The video ends when a lanky kid in green shorts walks over to the assailant and pulls him off. “Chill,” he says.
Similar scenarios are playing out in school bathrooms, hallways, playgrounds and stairwells across Canada. Violence in schools is on the rise and the implications are concerning; either kids are becoming more violent or the education system that once contained their aggression no longer can. Or both.
Outlaw schools it’s the only way forward.
The recent reactions by students of arguably the nation’s most prominent university to a report about grade inflation read like they came from the pages of The Babylon Bee, a satirical website. That they came instead from the Harvard Crimson speaks to the crises plaguing higher education.
Men are disappearing from the education landscape in America. In 1970, about 30 percent of America’s elementary teachers were male; by 2021, the number had dipped to 11 percent. Similar or even steeper drops happened at middle and high school levels.
The absence of men creates a harmful imbalance in how America’s children are educated. Men, however, did not depart willingly. They were driven out by the increasing feminization of schools, producing a vicious cycle of female-dominated schools.
A Toronto high school’s decision to play an Arabic version of “O Canada” on Oct. 7 — the two-year anniversary of Hamas’s massacre of 1,200 and kidnapping of 251 in southern Israel — was not an act of inclusion. It was a calculated political statement.
The only official versions of “O Canada,” as defined by the federal National Anthem Act, are in English and French. Other languages may be shared culturally, but never as a replacement. The decision to broadcast an Arabic version on Oct. 7 by Earl Haig Secondary School was an unmistakable act of defiance.
Some of us Islamophobes have been pointing out this ‘institutional capture’ for years. Decades even.
Our school boards and provincial government first decided that anti-White hatred was an acceptable part of school curriculum.
Anti-White hatred opened the door to the antisemitism we see today.
Why are we surprised? Schools have lost the plot. This is hanging in my son’s @PeelSchools high school in Brampton. But it won’t be by the time I’m finished with them. pic.twitter.com/AsnEqxLkFy
— Convoy Karen (@MarshaC59266742) October 8, 2025
