22 Replies to “A Single Child Groomed Is A Crime”

  1. This article puts the problem with public education in a nutshell. Instead of letting the people who know the student’s need determine the curriculum, we let ” really smart people “. who have ” the best interest of the kids at heart ” – a self anointed superior class – ruin the education of children. This is why high school students generally are incompetent, and in no way ready for adult life.
    Society must return ALL authority to the individual schools, if it wants public education to actually serve the student. Or better yet, abolish all school boards, and mail vouchers to parents, redeemable at any private school.

  2. “Society” has got us to this point….the collective, following the crowd, no individual thought, and for sure none of that ‘old fashioned religious stuff’ to tie ‘us’ down.
    Parents need to take back their role as first educators, and need to stop letting the government interfere.
    Why are the teachers so compliant with minister that doesn’t read the curriculum?
    Sheep.

  4. Here’s a genuinely novel idea: why don’t “we” return the authority over children generally and specifically over their education to their parents?? Who died and made all these over-educated authoritarians the “Sheriffs of Education”? (With apologies to Bill Cosby whose early stand-up comedy routines inspired that last bit.)

  5. Yo, “small c conservative”; your suggestion would constitute the greatest and most beneficial reform to education in Canada since the beginning of public support for education in the early 18th century. However, it overlooks one inconvenient fact. Public education is now one of those industries that is “too big to fail” — although that means it can fail its clients (students and parents) every day, just that it cannot ever fail itself. Every public school teacher in Canada is a member of a powerful, closed-shop union. Most have, after two years of limited or non-existent supervision have become “permanent” — meaning that they are almost impossible to remove from their positions. Those unions are in every province the most politically powerful organizations to confront provincial governments (even more so than health care workers), because they have local branches in every corner of the province, their membership can play a decisive role in most local and provincial constituencies.
    Teachers unions also benefit from an interesting phenomenon that research has repeatedly confirmed: most people who are aware of the problems of very powerful teachers unions and the dire quality of many public school teachers, overwhelmingly “like” *their* children’s teachers. They know that something is wrong with the system, they just can’t imagine that sweet Mr D’Entremont is part of the problem. He may know little about effective teaching and less about the subject he’s teaching; he may be largely putting in time until retirement or an opportunity to get out of the classroom into administration, or guidance, or “resource” teaching. He may be peddling his students the same liberal clap-trap as most of his colleagues, but he is pleasant, easy-going, gives easy tests and high grades, gets along, goes along, and maybe even coaches T-ball in the community. “Hey, thumbs up, Mr D!”
    No provincial government (and they are all responsible for their own sins, such as the one described in this article) has been able to address appalling deficiencies in the admission of candidates to teacher education programs, the race to the academic bottom in competition among teacher education programs, a corrupt and incompetent system of hiring teachers, supervising them, and enforcing professional discipline, or encouraging competition within the public schools or between public and private educational providers.
    There have been some limited successes in achieving options for parents in Western Canada — I suspect that one of the winning cards Christy Clark held was her strong support for continuing assistance (albeit constricted) support to independent schools, and I hope she realizes how big a difference it made to her campaign — but in the eastern half of the country, parents have little choice but to earn enough money to buy their way out of the system. I’ve never regretted forgetting about a cottage, a boat, an overseas trip, or a new car (until the old one crumbled to rust after 20 years) to do so, but there are many people who cannot afford to do so.
    One can only hope that stories like this will get more people thinking.

  6. When that curriculum is designed and implemented by a deviant pedophile who preys on small children it is called a Recruiting Program.

  8. I love that “It takes a village” line because it invites the retort “And it takes sound, working families to make a village.”

  9. Well, I don’t think that any young man who reads the pamphlet “Sex from A to Z”, which is part of the instructional material, will be incompetent in some of the “refinements” of homosexual sex.

  10. “…I have not read the ciriculum documents I just signed off on…nor does anyone expect me to…”
    Sad thing is, she’s right. It’s come to this in Ontario – nothing but dump, mute, ovine acceptance. No angry protesting; no mass pull-out of children from the public education system; no letters to MPPs or school board superintendants.

  13. I remember being taught about masturbation back in Grade 7. Passed the practical exam with flying colours.

  14. What the hell is she there for if not to have the responsibility of at least reading the document? I’m wondering if this is their way of covering their butts since the person involved with creating this curriculum, Levin, has been charged with child porn activity.

  15. But the real issue here is that Ministry of Ed in any province has only one role – disbursing the budget funds to the school boards.
    Those school boards are CORPORATIONS.
    Ministry of Ed has absolutely ZERO say in what the corporate entities called School Boards do (or refuse to do).
    Thus, why even bothering reading the curriculum? The schools have insulated themselves from any responsibility before the taxpayers by introducing a layer of corporate school boards between themselves and taxpayer funded Min of Ed.
    Give up already of change something, mumbling about deficiencies of education is just boring if existing model is in place.

  16. I don’t (didn’t) want my kids raised by the village. I want my kids to grow up to be normal.
    I’m not going to say anything about what goes on with that woman’s massive throat while she jiggles her head at the completion of each sentence.

  18. Disclosure: I’m a retired teacher. Education wasn’t so bad when I started around 40 years ago (or maybe I was naive) but when I retired, it was well on the downslope and has only gotten worse since then. I think we allow far too much “education” of the wrong kind to intrude in the lives of kids and ultimately, everyone. What are schools for anyway? They have become politically correct, social grooming institutions. They are holding pens for people that have nothing better to do. They are no longer doing the job of teaching reading (so kids can read and then find out things for themselves). Math is “too hard”–so hard in fact that people in the College of Education Elementary Program don’t have to take it. Science has become distorted by activists. There seem to be too many option classes that pander to special interests. Evaluation has become a joke–lying to students about their achievements to try to make everyone look good.
    How would I propose to correct it? Everything that a young person needs to learn to direct his/her own learning could be taught in about a quarter of the time devoted to the school day. Kids could spend the extra time getting better at stuff they really need to know. Much homework is useless but if work was done in school with help available, it would be more effective. I think the trades do a decent job of training kids to do useful things which can become a career if they wish. If kids are heading towards an academic or professional career, they could select classes accordingly. Teachers should be hired and paid according to performance which they would have to demonstrate to the satisfaction of true peers, not bean counters or warm and fuzzy administrators. And I think every teacher should have held a job other than teaching at some point in their lives–preferably something hard and dirty.
    Yhere should be art, music or sports. They broaden the mind, body and soul, and sometimes, they’re the only thing that makes school a bearable experience for some kids.
    I would ban smarmy mission statements. They have become a substitute for meaningful effort.
    Some of the better teachers we had came from the military. I noticed how much the standards at our school fell once they retired. They were not mean teachers, nor were they disliked. They just had clearer notions of expectations and how to achieve them. (Btw, one of them taught art and another was head of the music program.)

  19. Why are the teachers so compliant with minister that doesn’t read the curriculum? – bluetech
    Probably because the teacher’s satisfactory evaluation depends in part on fidelity to that curriculum? Humans respond to incentives and naturally fear the possibility of a poor evaluation, no matter how invincible the union looks to those on the outside. Probably even more so among unionized teachers; part of the union’s goal is to show the teacher how the union is absolutely vital to their continued employment, and would thus benefit from fear among the rank and file of poor evaluations. Even a public employee knows that every dismissal begins with a piece of paper.

  20. “In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” – Mark Twain.
    The more things change, etc.

  21. When it comes to the education of the children of Ontario we need to ask “who’s minding the store?”

  22. No one is minding the store with the exception of the Gay lobby brought in as advisers under the bullying program. Core programs have shifted to sexual matters and hurt feeling avoidance.
    Case Western Reserve’s Ted Gup, in the April 11, 2008 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, writes about how little his students know:
    “Nearly half of a recent class could not name a single country that bordered Israel. In an introductory journalism class, 11 of 18 students could not name what country Kabul was in, although we have been at war there for half a decade. Last fall only one in 21 students could name the U.S. secretary of defense. Given a list of four countries – China, Cuba, India, and Japan – not one of those same 21 students could identify India and Japan as democracies. Their grasp of history was little better. The question of when the Civil War was fought invited an array of responses – half a dozen were off by a decade or more. Some students thought that Islam was the principal religion of South America, that Roe v. Wade was about slavery, that 50 justices sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, that the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1975.”
    A study by the National Center for Education Statistics found that only 31 percent of college graduates could read a ”complex book and extrapolate from it.” Furthermore, the study found that far fewer college graduates are leaving school with ”the skills needed to comprehend routine data, such as reading a table about the relationship between blood pressure and physical activity.”
    From “Failing Our Students, Failing America”, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute report on the testing of 7,000 college students at 50 colleges, 2007-2008:
    “College seniors know astoundingly little about America’s history, political thought, market economy and international relations… Not one college surveyed can boast that its seniors scored, on average, even a ‘C’ in American civic knowledge. Harvard seniors scored highest, but their overall average was 69.9%, a ‘C+’.”
    – See more at: http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2008/04/then_and_now.html#sthash.7lUYAIfK.dpuf
    Canada is no better. So who’s minding the Store ? Looks like the teachers Union is.

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