The public school board of Windsor, Ont., has decided to venture deeper into the multicultural forest by offering what it calls Arabic immersion instruction at an elementary school where 50 per cent of the pupils speak Arabic as a first language.
And they think the story here is the immersion class?
Both Ms. Gallagher of the Windsor board and Mr. Wachowicz of the Edmonton board cited a number of private Arabic-language schools that have been started in their areas. They argued that children had a greater opportunity to integrate into mainstream Canadian society by staying in the public school system.
Egads.
i had a few words but after reading the responses eh what the hell, you keep what you are willing to fight for. canadians are no longer fighters.
warwick not even close. read the 1st amendment to the u.s. const.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Jones
David Koresh
JD Mambro
MA Applewhite
Segregating them into religiously divided schools is a recipe for future disaster.
My guys killed at least 10,000 times more innocent people than your guys. Koresh didn’t kill any innocent people – they got murdered by the government. Most of Jim Jones’ victims committed suicide. I couldn’t be bothered googling the others, but I imagine they’re pretty small potatoes compared to Stalin and Hitler.
Comparing body counts, it should be obvious that government schools could be very bad for your health. The occasional religious nutbar is nowhere near as dangerous as a totalitarian government. And forced public education following a centralized curriculum is one of the el-primo methods that genocidal dictators use to lead their countries over the cliff.
And you must have noticed how many massacres occur at government schools. Why? Because of the element of compulsion. Students are forced to attend them. Schools are forced to teach bad students. Taxpayers are forced to support them. Teachers are forced to work at them, if they want to earn a decent living (no one has enough after-tax money to pay private school teachers well), and thanks to the union monopoly school boards are forced to keep bad teachers on payroll. It’s not a healthy situation and it is neither part of nor conducive to a free society.
John Taylor Gatto has written lots of articles – since he got sick of teaching at government schools – about the authoritarian, Prussian roots of public education in North America. Public schools were and are meant to control people and make them obedient to the will of the government. If public schools actually were good, and they didn’t turn kids into illiterate zombies, and they weren’t dangerous to attend, then you’d probably see a lot more politicians’ and top bureaucrats’ kids attending them.