It’s deliberate;
Tricia Barry, executive director of Money School Canada and a former banker, says despite promises by the provincial education ministry in 2011 to “integrate” money management into the Grade 4-12 curriculum, students know little more about money than they did five years ago.
She was so upset with the Liberal’s “broken promises” — what she cheekily calls financial literacy gate — she produced a discussion paper last November showing how little is being done.
Because it’s essential to the success and survival of socialism.
‘The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation’
Vladimir Lenin
Ignorance has NEVER been bliss. Ignorance is weeping and gnashing of teeth. Ignorance is starvation and death from curable disease. Ignorance is dependence on centralized government
Perhaps this was the safe guard to keep the next generation from realizing something happens after you run out of other peoples money by making them think there is no such thing as personal wealth.
Financial literacy delivered by organs of the institutional left is an expectation of the truly delusional. You can’t have grade ten students asking questions that challenge the structural, moral and fiscal bankruptcy of leviathan when everyone from the Teacher to the Premier is a benefactor of such a system.
Do you really want the government/public schools to teach money management? Considering the mess the education system has made out of math and language arts education, I’d say the answer is No. Even if the program started with something practical and sensible, how long would that last before the SJW education experts rewrite the curriculum? Pretty soon kids would be learning Orwellian ideas like: the multiplier effect of taxpayer money into cultural programs and to politically important businesses is double-plus good ($1 spent produces at least $10 in economic activity) but there’s no signifigant multiplier effect when private money invests in politically incorrect businesses ; redistribution is essential, more is always better, and to oppose or question it at all is racist ; debt/deficits are only good when progressives are in power, think of the children when it comes to spending billions on climate policies but ignore their plight when it comes to leaving them massive debt, pension and other unfunded liabilities, etc.
Seriously, consider yourself lucky if you have good teachers but don’t rely on it. Teach your kids to read, do math and manage money. Most importantly make the effort to talk to them to find out what they’re learning in school because you’ll be surprised how politically biased it has become. Then teach them to think critically (or better, scientifically) about politically biased education and be skeptical of theories presented as infallible fact despite relying on shaky or sloppy evidence. Let them read sites like New Real Peer Review on twitter to show the absurdity of liberal arts “theories”. Encourage them to avoid non-STEM post-secondary education like it’s the plague.
“Tricia Barry … a former banker”. I’ve met a lot of bankers over the years. They are not the smartest people when it comes to money. People who own their own business tend to be much more knowledgeable. Bankers? They have memorized bank offerings and are locked in a rule-bound box. The worse possible thing the school system could do is to embrace money management in the curriculum and then turn it over to bankers. We would end up with people who could borrow money and feel guilty about not topping up their RRSPs but didn’t understand cash flow, payroll taxes, federal, provincial and municipal taxation rates and the difference between gross and net pay. My daughter learned that last one when she got her first paycheck.
Teachers, the Premier, etc. are beneficiaries of the system. The taxpayers are the (unwitting and/or unwilling) benefactors.
The children learn about religion, gays, trans gender people, first Nations, first Nation treaties, first Nation disparity, Quebec, and the rest is of no consequence. Shot rolls down hill you know
If money management was taught in the same manner as basic math, calculating percentages, making change etc., one wouldn’t want the public education system involved. From a Liberal viewpoint, it is preferable to keep students ignorant of fiscal matters; much easier then to convince them “the budget will balance itself”.
WTH?
What happened to all the comments in the Dingoes post?
Liberals don’t understand economics, if they did they would not be liberals.
In my (very HIGHLY ranked) public HS in the early 1970’s … we had a course, which I took, entitled: Business Law. Yes, it taught us fresh-faced Sophomores much about Business Law … really everyday Law and legal principles (probably why I have NEVER been sued … or ever made a catastrophically stupid business deal, loan, or large purchase). But it also taught basic Economics. And I must say the teacher was surely NO genius, but he had an incredibly firm grasp on the subject matter … and made it really FUN. Believe it or not … he would show us parts of Perry Mason reruns … and ask us to break-down the legal principles … it was amazingly instructional. One of the very BEST courses I EVER took … HS or College.
The next best class that I took in our HS (which had a graduation rate of 99.99% and 94% college-bound students) … was … Business Typing. Other than the fact that the class was packed with the best looking girls in school (yes, my Johnson used to select classes for me) … it taught me how to touch-type about 85wpm at my best. It was esp. helpful for college-bound students who would be typing long essays, etc. Who knew that EVERYONE’S life would be tethered to a typewriter keyboard ? Boy was I glad I took THAT class. It has allowed me to bang-out all these lonnnng insufferable diatribes on SDA !
I suspect that ANY teacher who proposed to teach a class starting with the word “business” would be run out of the District on a rail … today.
It’s even WORSE than that … each and every CHILD isn’t seen as a CLIENT that the Educational system is there to SERVE … but each and every CHILD is seen as a PAYCHECK. THE source of funding for the UNION, the School District, and each teacher. Attendance is taken to count “bodies” every day … the receipts to be turned into government for $$$$$. It doesn’t matter one iota whether those BODIES are taught anything or not. Or worse, if they are indoctrinated to believe that the government is their friend. There is ZERO accountability for actually EDUCATING our children. Unfortunately, that is left to the parents. I see a day rapidly approaching, where EVERYONE will be SELF-TAUGHT via the internet with sites like the Khan Academy. If the government education system, all the teachers, and all the UNIONS don’t start SERVING their clients … they are going to FAIL themselves right out of a job.
Gee, this decline has only been going on for about ten, or twenty, or thirty years. So any day bow, I expect parents to start doing something about it.
You know, like what they’re doing something about muslim prayers in public schools…and eleven year-olds getting taught about anal sex….maybe tomorrow…someday soon….maybe….zzzzzzzzzzzz
Point being, that if your kids graduate HS without a *&^%$#g clue, take a bow. You had the opportunity and the duty to fill in the many blanks.
Right you are. My mistake. I always appreciate a good editor!
Oh well. If your kids graduate HS as complete dummies, take a bow – you had the opportunity and the duty to fill in the blanks.
Part of the problem of calls to “serve the clients” in education has been that serving the clients has become providing them with puppy cuddle days, more student groups on campus, some very odd class choices, and giving in to snowflakes (see the former parts of the list).
The video about Yale is very perceptive in mentioning this — but it isn’t just happening on college campuses.
I too took the business typing class, and it was very useful. So was the home econ. class, the shop class, and the ag class. They were very helpful. I recommend everybody take them — if they are offered in ones’ school district. Of course, those were simpler times, with a simpler (and yet more effective) curriculum. A basic shop class can at least teach how to use some tools without cutting your fingers off…a gender study of the Simpsons cannot…
In Ontario, your only defense is Home Schooling.
If the kid needs to be baby sat during the day, school is borderline okay. But if they want to be anybody or do anything, you are going to have to teach them yourself. The intertubes is a great resource, but Mom and Dad need to teach the kid.
Because if you don’t, nobody will.
By the way, before you Westerners get all cocky, this rot creeps West.
http://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.ca/2017/03/university-of-regina-to-be-renamed-with.html
Sadly … I never took Home Econ. … ground ZERO in HS for HOT girls ! I had to learn by trial and error (heavy on the error). I was talking about my cooking skills, not my HOT girl skills. I am so glad to hear you (a girl?) took shop classes. All life skills are good to have. I DID take shop, and do routine service on my own automobiles, including brake jobs which are quite easy, and get done RIGHT by ME. And I am a wizard with my worm drive SKILsaw.
To this very day … I can hear my shop teacher in his gravelly voice say … “Machines are NOT your friends”.
Of course he was RIGHT.
Well Duh.
Kleptocracy depends on a numerically illiterate citizenry.
Public Education is the only way theft by persuasion can continue.
Too bad, so sad when the supply of other peoples money runs dry.
On-Tar we Owe,doing Western Canada a huge favour.
Showing us the way…forward comrades.
“Too bad, so sad when the supply of other peoples money runs dry.”
I get a chuckle watching Saskatoon’s mayor Charlie Clark’s gnashing of teeth when the provincial budget cut 11 mil out of Saskatoon’s grant. Charlie knew there was going to be provincial belt tightening but he and councillors prepared a budget ignoring reality. I understand he was going to hire 50 more city employees. What do you expect from a lefty? They are even talking about a court injunction. I suggest he look at cutting the cities staff numbers. Poor Charlie when reality hits you in the face.
In grades 1-3, I learned how to speak, read and write English. In grade 9 I learned how to type. In grade 10 I took a community education course (optional) about double entry bookkeeping.
And then I dropped out to be a farmer. Never quite made it as a farmer, but did succeed in radio-tv repair, oil well wireline service work, and eventually settled in for a career in mainframe computer work. That one was the winner as I progressed from service/repair technician to marketing support and ending in software development. Then one day when the mainframe computer world gave way to workstations and personal computers, I was laid off from what was to be a lifetime career. So I printed up some business cards, incorporated, and then spent the next 12 years as an independent consultant/contractor.
How was this accomplished? By home study and constant re-education in subjects important at the time. My mainframe computer career was good in this respect, as there was lots of on the job, paid educational courses. On top of that, I kept up learning new things that I thought were important.
But I still remember the basic lesson from my grade 10 class in double entry bookkeeping that is most important.
That the credits need to match the debits, or the budget will not balance itself.
I was fortunate to attend a HS where boys also took home-ec and girls also took shop; one semester of each. Those classes were not co-ed. No doubt the girls got as much out of shop class as I did learning how to cook, sew, and maintain a household. Those skills were also reinforced at home and have been very useful all my life. My Mom made sure I didn’t grow-up thinking a wife was a surrogate momma with ‘benefits’.
The less taught about money management the more vvotes for Liberals.
pffft.
Ive been harping on this with the local school board and a few people who would listen, the total absence of such topics as ‘how to buy a car’ ‘how to buy a house’, ‘how to hire a tradesman and not get ripped off to fix the house you just bought but cant fix yourself’.
they even took the word ‘education’ out of the official school board name. says a lot.
p.s. my 1 yr in technical school that followed 5 yrs in the ‘ahhts and science’ did me more good than all the rest of my schooling up to that point. I miss those mainframes, I was the 1st operator to land the LM simulator on the old Control Data cyber 73. I discovered manual controls still worked with the autopilot engaged.
speaking of space race and all, I worry we will never see the likes of pioneers like Neil Armstrong given the ghastly state of ‘edjukashun’ now.
migod, 12 years of the stuff and they still cant do math without a calculator?