Education

Though many in Ontario have welcomed the reintroduction of cursive to the province’s curriculum, some educators say translating that to the classroom could be easier said than done for a generation of teachers that may have missed out on learning the skill of writing by hand themselves.

While the majority of provinces require students to learn cursive, it isn’t mandatory in some regions. In British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Northwest Territories and Yukon, for example, it’s up to teachers to decide whether or not to include it.

Teachers have better things to do, like encouraging children to mutilate their sexual organs.

… Today’s generation of weak, discipline-averse principals, frightened of parents and intent on being best friends with violence-prone “behavioural” students, deserve much of the blame. However, the fundamental institutional hypocrisy of the teaching profession is that all too often, today’s teachers will tolerate a level of harassment and violence from students that they would never remotely allow from anyone doing the same thing outside of school property.

Cursive is making a comeback.

Relegated in 2006 to an optional piece of learning in Ontario elementary schools, cursive writing is set to return as a mandatory part of the curriculum starting in September.

Education Minister Stephen Lecce said it is about more than just teaching students how to sign their own name.

“The research has been very clear that cursive writing is a critical life skill in helping young people to express more substantively, to think more critically, and ultimately, to express more authentically,” he said in an interview.

I see trouble ahead, the kids will be writing their own notes to excuse themselves from attending Drag Queen Indoctrination Hour. No wonder the teachers are upset.

h/t Sweetpea

James Murphy has been part of Ontario’s Dufferin-Peel Catholic school district since he was five years old. After graduating and going through teacher’s college, he was hired in 1981 by his former high-school principal. Over the coming decades Murphy’s kids would matriculate through the district.

“Anything that needed to be done in my school, I would do,” Murphy told National Review.

The high-school biology teacher, now 60 with a thick shock of flowing white hair, fondly recalls playing guitar for students, serving as a liaison for the district’s Environmental Youth Alliance, being a union representative, and coaching football.

How can we be having these issues when we give the teachers all the money and more that they ask for?

We’re always told that extravagant raises and benefits are for the students.

More than half of Ontario’s elementary school teachers and support workers say they have experienced an attempt of violence against them this academic year, according to a new survey.

The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO), the largest education union in the country, recently surveyed more than 76,000 members on workplace violence. About 32 per cent of members responded to the survey.

No amount of money is going to fix the unfortunate home environment that creates the majority of these kids.

Zero tolerance for violence policy works.

Perhaps a bit more focus on the 3R’s as opposed to racial victimhood indoctrination and Drag Queen grooming would help too.