Various “educators” in Nova Scotia are convinced that Mother’s Day and Father’s Day should disappear … because they may offend some children. Parents are fighting back but are far from winning the battle. Roy Green has more (podcast).
Various “educators” in Nova Scotia are convinced that Mother’s Day and Father’s Day should disappear … because they may offend some children. Parents are fighting back but are far from winning the battle. Roy Green has more (podcast).
Are Nova Scotia’s schools governed by elected school boards? Do Nova Scotians avoid voting and then blame others like Texans do?
Canadians are far too focused on federal and provincial politics when they should be keeping their eyes on municipal and school board elections. By far, municipal and school board politics have a bigger impact on the lives of people than the senior governments. Time to wake up, Canada….because the left has been at work in the municipal and school spheres for years…..quietly. Time to give them the boot.
Yes, the left has been busy trying to turn our schools for over fifty years. It has become just more blatant the last couple.
These moroons will not be happy until we are all wearing grey smocks and holding little red booklets.
The sooner we get back to the 3 R’s and some common sense regarding teacher responsibility for students grades and learning the sooner we can leave the leftist ideology and social engineering behind. Until then it’s almost no use sending your kids into the public education system.
How’s about we get rid of teacher’s unions,because they sure as hell offend me! Any bets on how long it will take the other commie teacher provinces of Morontario,Manitoba,and BC to jump all over this with full support?
Oh. And to answer your question,Robert. Because “progressive” is the new code for commie.
The mere existence of people like this offends me.
Please remove them.
The problem has a simple solution. The kids unlucky enough to have same sex couples as parents can celebrate “top” or “bottom” day if their parents are male homosexuals. For lesbian parents there is often a biologic mother who had the kid through IVF. However, in this case, I’m not sure if the father’s day card should go to the doctor who performed the IVF or the sperm donor?
There, very simple solution to the problem and can’t understand why people get their knickers in a know over things that have very simple solutions.
Sorry, new keyboard that I’m still getting used to:
That should be “knickers in a knot”
Teachable moment – every single one of the kids in the class has a mother and a father, whether either of those people is raising the child or not. Even same sex parents had to have an opposite sex donor or surrogate or birth mom. As an adoptive parent I understand that these days can be confusing but then that’s why we teach children.
All the %$#@&^g nonsense – sex ed for grade ones; oral sex instruction for 12 year old girls; calling the cops for ‘daddy has a gun’ pictures – always originates with ‘educators’, doesn’t it?
They do it because they can – there is no effective opposition from parents.
Spokesman for the school board, Doug Hadley, says “the school understand that the policy change does not satisfy every parent.”
At least they satisfied one enlightened couple out of 400+ parents.
Progressives have been disseminating social-justice ideology in schools for decades. What better way is there to indoctrinate the next generation of progressive activists.
They’ve spent 60 years undermining the linch pin social unit of society (the family)so the state can replace it – pretty rudimentary if you underdstsnd the motivs and agenda of social engineers.
I don’t view this as some devious plot by educators to undermine society. Rather, it appears to be cowardly school administrators offering up a knee-jerk reaction to placate perennial whiners. In this case, the enlightened same-sex couple should have been politely, but firmly told to suck it up and deal with it or move on to a place where their concerns would be addressed to their satisfaction. It must be nice to have nothing better to worry about.
“I don’t view this as some devious plot by educators to undermine society.”
And just which rock did you just crawl out from under?
Say F’n what!!
When the family unit began to fall apart, I disagreed with it when I was school secretary for 27 yrs and still disagree with it.
It’s a lovely gesture within a loving home setting. The child can make a homemade card and present it to his father or mother on the day; it doesn’t have to be made during Art class at school.
If a teacher thinks it must be done during class (which it doesn’t), then the best solution would be to give the children a couple of choices, one being making a card for the parent or for someone they especially love.
Have no idea why teachers in K thru 8 haven’t thought of this themselves, or abandoned it. Except they’re not good at thinking on their own: they’re more group thinkers.
It happens too regularly and systemically to be coincidence bifflr.
It’s less a matter of pedagogues being lazy or uncaring, its that they are indoctrinated to be detached from the subjects of their brainwashing – simply, they don’t “teach” they “condition” a set of responses that suit a political/ideological agenda. Independent critical thinking (the ore tool for cognitive learning) is actively repressed – individualist thinking is actually punished by a politicized, union-brainwashed pedagogue activist clique – I know because I had constant confrontations with them until I pulled my kids out of what I consider to be sanctioned organized child abuse.
Yes, there are some good teachers who still go into the profession for he love of children and their proper educating – but they become disillusioned or apathetic as the public system grinds them up in the cold social engineering agenda and martinet politics the head educrats gate keep.
The system creates automatons of both students and teachers – educate yourself – http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/
The same sex couple should be happy with the current system because they at least can alternate every other year as to who is Mom and who is Dad thus getting the best of both days while a traditional couple will never enjoy more than the one day.
To add to what Occam said about the good teachers becoming to disillusioned or apathetic to fight back, add that new generations of teachers having gone through the left wing indoctrination mills now believe this crap and are willing participants in the destruction of western Christianity based civilization.
“Why Do “Progressives” Constantly do Unprogressive Things?”
Because everything the Left does is a ploy, that’s why.
They can’t come out and say what they really want to do, because we would all take turns hitting them with sticks if they did. Because what they really want is a nation of obedient, terrified drones who do everything they are told to do, and never do anything they are not told to do. All working to support the Noble Lefties in the manner they like to become accustomed. Feudalism, basically. No one is going to voluntarily sign on for that unless the alternative is an excruciating death.
So what Lefties do instead is attack everything that makes Western society function. Like the basic family unit and the extended clan. Why else would a complaint from one (1) single same-sex couple trump a petition from 400 families? Because the school Lefties are trying to defeat and destroy the 400 who signed the petition, duh. (By the by, how does a “same sex couple” end up with custody of a child anyway? LEFTIES!)
Lefties despise gays, incidentally. Ever notice how they always default to the gay slur in any argument? They hate ’em. The Gay Industry is run by people who hate gays.
The solution to this problem is to stop being a low-information voter. Do what these guys in NS did, get up in the teacher’s face. And the principal, and the board, and the provincial ministry. Say the word “lawsuit” early and often. Do it with politely inexorable formality of Victorian butler ejecting a Gypsy from a lady’s garden party. Have them wetting themselves with fear when they see your car driving up to the school.
Otherwise, home school your kid. Easier and less taxing on the liver cells, IMHO. Lefties can try the patience of a saint.
Occam and robw, well said. One of my sons-in-law, a teacher, would agree. In fact we discussed this topic yesterday. He said many current teachers and principles do not agree, but the unions, administrators, and government ministries are moving the agenda along bit by bit.
Yeah well, I recall a few years back, a newly widowed single mon and a coupla kids moved in next door.
An extraverted group…I guess I fitted in somehow. I was asked to be the “emergency contact” cause the mother worked.
Fine. Then one day, the one kid showed up with busted teeth….
Boar grizzlies don’t wear lipstick nor take prisoners…and brings the cops…the PC school officials had a bird….
The attending cop made the observation to the principal….that I wuz boss when mama wasn’t around….then when mama showed up they had a tasmainian devil in the building…..
It was a good day.