That’s what I think. See all kinds of selfish people commenting about relying on science and epidemiologists. What about paediatricians, mental health professionals etc.? Going on 3 years is tantamount to child abuse. There have been brave teachers who have gone to school every day in war zones, and worse. I seem to remember hearing about some very brave ones who got caught in the Fort McMurray Fire. Is it really about the science, or is it about money. If we doubled their salaries would they feel better? Guessing so.
If we doubled their salaries would they feel better?
They’d be fucking immune.
“If we doubled their salaries would they feel better?”
Only if you doubled their holidays and halfed the class sizes too.
Yes, don’t know why the don’t pully a Ronnie and do this. Oh, yes I do, because none of them are Ronnie. Or Maggie. Or even Mike Harris here in Ontario.
Should have something like: at midnight, using the Super Emergency Power, all teachers will be automatically decertified.
They can be automatically recertified when they show up for work the next day, for the full day.
Repeat as needed.
Ha, then they’d all be “we need to protest, let’s shut down the leg, riots on the streets, actually burn down some ma and pa stores, kill kittens, and wave soviet flags, etc”, but it would all be nice and legal see!
I’d say do it and let them show us the teachers are really the grassroots, yeah right!
Let people designate where their school tax goes. Fund private schools. Fund homeschool. Let the wokey leftists starve
this all could have been prevented if people (read government officials, corporate media, etc) were honest and didn’t lie or pretend they knew more than they did. Scare everyone who is susceptible, and now you have to try to unscare them. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. The lesson continues,
H
Public schools and their teachers are society’s blackhole of sobre thought, principle, logic, compassion, selflessness and actual virtue. I’ve been screaming it for years. I’m so glad we’re almost through it all (last kid graduates 2022).
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!
Look to Loudon County, VA, Fairfax County, VA, and other school districts around the country.
Those boards are getting served.
Mr. Kenny needs to ask what they did with the PPP money — that’s what the US calls the Covid rainmaking.
If the schools did not upgrade their HVAC systems first, then get it done. A good air purifier blasts 99% of SARS, staph, strep, dust mites, etc.
Or supply all teachers with the N 95 mask the good one teach them how to use it so they are in school every day and mask them.
Or look at the GD numbers. Force the teachers to take the cocktail Vit D cocktail. Off to take a zinc, I’m getting a cold.
If my sniffles turn out to be the moronic variant, i’ll be glad because I haven’t gotten any variant yet.
Who would want freaks like these two anywhere near their children.
That Owen is ballsy or clueless. No, Owen, you don’t have any freedoms and you were very happy to give them away. What do you think the last two years has been about? Where do you stand on the truckers?
Comply, Owen, like you want everyone else to do. The shoe is on the other foot.
Wait until they try to prove masks actually work in the blinding light of her Majesty’s court. Six years from now when they get their turn before the judge it will be mildly interesting.
I have to add, not that it matters much, I feel like a weight has been lifted. The foundation cards will keep getting pulled now.
After Kenny’s presser, for the first time in my life I watched a city press conference, knuckles white, the remote creaking in my hand as my lizard brain silently calculated the cost of buying a new TV in the morning.
I was genuinely, pleasently, surprised by Gondyk.
She spun the big Nenshi scented purple wheel of –racism/climate change/mandate-mandate-mandate/in-camera-meeting — and came up with something completely different. She was calm, correct, and expressed reasonable concerns. It’s annoying when people I disagree with in damn near everything find a way to show some leadership.
Final point, the drum beat from the Ottawa valley elites is stomach churning. I despair for what comes next. They are desperate. I really hope that we won’t see blood on the bouncy castles.
I won’t be following any of the City “mandates”. They have no authority to impose them. My guess is if they try to bring any of their own in, they will be laughed off.
Juatin wants a “Man date”
My guess is if they try to bring any of their own in, they will be laughed off.
Not in Edmonton. I heard that even if Kenney had dropped all the restrictions, Edmonton city council would have imposed more of its own. That’s what you get when you elect a failed Prinz Dummkopf cabinet minister as mayor.
Edmonton city council just voted unanimously to impose their own covidian mandates.
Kate, it’s time for a change:
THE HONKING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL FREEDOM IS PERFECTED.
One thing the pandemic did is show who’s truly essential to the economy and who ain’t. And the teachers themselves have shown us, they ain’t.
The teachers are exposing themselves as to who they are truly looking out for. If they gave2 shits about the kids they would support this fully. One can only hope that this is just union activists and not rank and file teachers. That union needs to be broken up.
Bob, the teachers self interest and ignorance is on display for all to see. Their ignorance about the experimental gene therapy disguised as a “vaccine” is most concerning. That the fools think a mask can stop a virus shows that they are all in when it comes to hysterical insanity.
Unfortunately, the rank and file teachers usually fall obediently into line. More than once I have been a first hand witness to staff room talk. The competent teachers may have problems with the incompetent teachers in a school but when a parent or a principal with some backbone tries to do something about a problem teacher, the teachers in that school and the union immediately close ranks. Never fails and they will back up a teacher who has done some very egregious things. These unions indeed need to be broken up and teachers hired and kept employed on the basis of merit.
Kenney is learning what happens when you make half a decision. By dropping the vax pass requirement but keeping its machinery in place, ready to be reactivated at a moment’s notice, he has refused to dismantle the architecture of tyranny that is at the root of the public’s discontent. And he’s outsourcing the power to reactivate that tyranny to whomever wants to impose it and telling everyone flat-out that he won’t stand up for the Charter rights of Albertans (not to mention he’s still persecuting his political critics by sending his jackbooted thugs out to arrest Christian pastors, which he could stop with a word).
He’s trying to please everyone, and when you do that, you just piss off everyone. You cannot cater simultaneously to the demands of people who only want to be left alone, and the hysterical leftard mask fascists who want everyone leashed, chained, and subservient to the authority of the almighty government. But more importantly, he’s demonstrating that he’s not a conservative, but rather a knee-jerk whimsical tyrant unwilling to give up the powers he has unconstitutionally arrogated to himself. That makes him nothing more than a bog-standard progressive, but without the courage of their demented convictions. He’s Justin Trudeau without the hair.
There’s no such thing as ‘partially free’, Jason. Thought you understood that, but it’s manifestly obvious that you don’t. Tear it all down. Or your political career is finished. Your call.
I think he’s already finished. He’s already angered everyone on every side of him, and his half-in, half-out garbage from yesterday wins him no points from everybody. Musing about an annual shot. Refusing to bar businesses from requiring vax passes. Retaining the vax pass infrastructure.
UCP needs to put a knife in his back, pronto. If he tries leading them into the next election, there’s a good chance Notley gets back in, and she’ll DEFINITELY fire all that vax pass infrastructure right back up to 11.
Kenney’s a snake. He always was. Why Albertans couldn’t see that baffles me.
When it comes to masking, the teachers’ unions, the public health authorities, and the professional experts in child development and in literacy utterly failed our children. I don’t know if they were too stupid to anticipate the risks they endorsed, or if they did know and disregarded them. I find it hard to believe that they didn’t know. This includes pediatricians, educators, child psychologists, reading specialist, speech therapists….. The damage goes beyond health, and social/emotional development; it is also neuro-cognitive. Let’s hope that parents stand up in outrage when the magnitude of the damage is revealed. Maybe some of the masking was unavoidable but note that they could have warned parents and provided tips to mitigate: they didn’t even do that. “
Will this enlarge the demographic of poor readers with all that entails for their future economic wellbeing, leaving them dependent and limited in opportunity? Reading deficits are highly correlated to incarceration, in fact, did you know states use reading scores to predict future prison capacity?
An ounce of prevention…..
If you are a parent or relative of a pre-school child who is in a masked day care or Pre-K setting, double down on the following: reading aloud with feeling and rhythm, teaching nursery rhymes and alliteration (Peter Piper picked a peck….), clearly enunciating the sounds of our language (the distinct, individual sounds composing a syllable or word), and as much interactive speech as possible.” I spy” games are useful, I see something that starts with “b”. You may or may not know this, but your verbal memory, required for reading and writing, is stored in the brain as phonemes (sounds) not letter forms. Yes, all of these tasks are common sense and in the repertoire of most families. If you have a family history of dyslexia and other reading difficulties, then you must incorporate a more systematic, explicit, sequential, repetitive, multi modal approach, too much to go into here.
Reading is foundational to Education, Speech is foundational to Reading. Phonemic awareness is foundational to Speech and Reading. Pre-K Educators, Pediatricians, and Educational Psychologists, and other experts know this. This has become indisputable over the last 20+ years, not to mention that it is common sense. Children must see your facial expressions, the movement of your lips and mouth as you speak, as well as hear clearly and distinctly the separate sounds of our language, not speech muffled by a mask. Think of how little difference there is between the sounds, “t” and “d”, or the other “brother” sound consonants; s-z, k-g etc.
Birth to Kindergarten is a crucial time for activating, establishing and networking those areas of the brain required for Reading fluency and comprehension. This is disrupted and impeded by masking. I expect the population of children with reading difficulties to be greatly increased by masking.
Kenney is quite the amateur magician. What is his stage name, Jason the Jerkoff?
Watch with amazement as I continue making your freedoms disappear while making you believe that I am generously restoring them!
Everybody knows a few teachers.
Call them up and ask them what the hell is wrong with their brains and why they are torturing the children.
Being nice isn’t working.
Your children are not political pawns to be used by the teachers.
If the teacher’s vaccines work, why do they need the kids masked?
How much did the schools get paid?
Uncle Sam made it rain in schools; to take the money, kids have to be masked.
There’s a study out of Germany about kids and masking…
Maybe they should follow the science?
I hate to be accused of the voice of reason on this blog, but I think the anger above directed against teachers is somewhat misplaced. I know, I know. Please, hear me out.
Kenney the Liar is playing Janus here. He feigns surprise, maybe even shock, that teachers are concerned about unmasked kids being vectors of disease, blah, blah, blah. It’s pure politics, people.
What has been the narrative for the past two years? What have the fear-mongers, the Liar Kenney and his bureaucrat Hinshaw, among others, been pushing since day one? “Masks and shots.” Wait, what about… “Masks and shots.” I read here… “Masks and shots.” That medical professional said… “Masks and shots.” But… “Masks and shots.” Iverm… “Masks and shots.”
It’s been driven into the psyche of nearly every person on this planet. Now, there are a select few of us who refused to drink the kool-aid, but many, most did. And, yes, I realize that some teachers are playing politics, as well. However, is there a single soul reading this who doesn’t know someone they thought was otherwise rational & well-meaning, who has fallen for the “Masks and shots” narrative? There are entire families who have swallowed this shit!
OK, let’s go back to the Liar Kenney and his Janus syndrome. On one side of his face he’s been pushing the “Masks and shots” narrative. Now, he’s allegedly had his “Coming to Jesus” moment (aka, CYA) and from the other side of his face he’s “surprised” that the narrative he’s been pummeling us with for more than two years has actually taken hold!
He’s looking for you, me, us, to transfer some of our anger away from him and against someone, anyone. Don’t let him play silly buggers with you. Eye on the ball, people. Cause & effect.
Jes’ sayin’.
Biker, I’d have liked to have ridden with you about 50 years ago when I had my bike. Wife says I’m way too old for one now.
Thx, John. We’d probably have some fun. No such thing as too old to ride. If you can sit, you can ride. Get a trike. Or a hack. Three years ago there were a coupla octogenarians on matching pristine Knucklehead hacks in Sturgis. They rode them all the way from SoCal. Respect.
Time for a new wife. Trade in that 70 (guessing) for a couple 35’s. One rides behind you, t’other in the hack… 😉
Reason #95958483734654748 to homeschool. The education system cannot be reformed until the power of every teachers’ union is destroyed.
Does that mean that this is Kenney’s theme song tonight?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln7Vn_WKkWU
Fire them all
That’s what I think. See all kinds of selfish people commenting about relying on science and epidemiologists. What about paediatricians, mental health professionals etc.? Going on 3 years is tantamount to child abuse. There have been brave teachers who have gone to school every day in war zones, and worse. I seem to remember hearing about some very brave ones who got caught in the Fort McMurray Fire. Is it really about the science, or is it about money. If we doubled their salaries would they feel better? Guessing so.
If we doubled their salaries would they feel better?
They’d be fucking immune.
“If we doubled their salaries would they feel better?”
Only if you doubled their holidays and halfed the class sizes too.
Yes, don’t know why the don’t pully a Ronnie and do this. Oh, yes I do, because none of them are Ronnie. Or Maggie. Or even Mike Harris here in Ontario.
Should have something like: at midnight, using the Super Emergency Power, all teachers will be automatically decertified.
They can be automatically recertified when they show up for work the next day, for the full day.
Repeat as needed.
Ha, then they’d all be “we need to protest, let’s shut down the leg, riots on the streets, actually burn down some ma and pa stores, kill kittens, and wave soviet flags, etc”, but it would all be nice and legal see!
I’d say do it and let them show us the teachers are really the grassroots, yeah right!
Or is it this song?
https://youtu.be/hgmBaE1cqD4
That might be more for Prinz Dummkopf, who never took his duties as prime minister very seriously.
Dig out the Reagan playbook on PATCO. The one thing we absolutely do NOT need are teacher’s “unions”.
Masks don’t work. It’s really that simple. Why he doesn’t say so is anyone’s guess. It’s time to start levelling with people :
1 – lockdowns don’t work
2 – masks don’t work
3 – the vaccine program failed
Literally the only thing that worked was the virus’ ability to mutate to become less serious.
They work… in mysterious ways
https://www.mattioli1885journals.com/index.php/actabiomedica/article/view/11873/10389
Let people designate where their school tax goes. Fund private schools. Fund homeschool. Let the wokey leftists starve
this all could have been prevented if people (read government officials, corporate media, etc) were honest and didn’t lie or pretend they knew more than they did. Scare everyone who is susceptible, and now you have to try to unscare them. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. The lesson continues,
H
Public schools and their teachers are society’s blackhole of sobre thought, principle, logic, compassion, selflessness and actual virtue. I’ve been screaming it for years. I’m so glad we’re almost through it all (last kid graduates 2022).
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!
Look to Loudon County, VA, Fairfax County, VA, and other school districts around the country.
Those boards are getting served.
Mr. Kenny needs to ask what they did with the PPP money — that’s what the US calls the Covid rainmaking.
If the schools did not upgrade their HVAC systems first, then get it done. A good air purifier blasts 99% of SARS, staph, strep, dust mites, etc.
Or supply all teachers with the N 95 mask the good one teach them how to use it so they are in school every day and mask them.
Or look at the GD numbers. Force the teachers to take the cocktail Vit D cocktail. Off to take a zinc, I’m getting a cold.
If my sniffles turn out to be the moronic variant, i’ll be glad because I haven’t gotten any variant yet.
Who would want freaks like these two anywhere near their children.
That Owen is ballsy or clueless. No, Owen, you don’t have any freedoms and you were very happy to give them away. What do you think the last two years has been about? Where do you stand on the truckers?
Comply, Owen, like you want everyone else to do. The shoe is on the other foot.
Wait until they try to prove masks actually work in the blinding light of her Majesty’s court. Six years from now when they get their turn before the judge it will be mildly interesting.
I have to add, not that it matters much, I feel like a weight has been lifted. The foundation cards will keep getting pulled now.
After Kenny’s presser, for the first time in my life I watched a city press conference, knuckles white, the remote creaking in my hand as my lizard brain silently calculated the cost of buying a new TV in the morning.
I was genuinely, pleasently, surprised by Gondyk.
She spun the big Nenshi scented purple wheel of –racism/climate change/mandate-mandate-mandate/in-camera-meeting — and came up with something completely different. She was calm, correct, and expressed reasonable concerns. It’s annoying when people I disagree with in damn near everything find a way to show some leadership.
Final point, the drum beat from the Ottawa valley elites is stomach churning. I despair for what comes next. They are desperate. I really hope that we won’t see blood on the bouncy castles.
https://twitter.com/JimWatsonOttawa/status/1491170407151730690?s=20&t=adHBcONuIfhywAJI_ZiVjw
I won’t be following any of the City “mandates”. They have no authority to impose them. My guess is if they try to bring any of their own in, they will be laughed off.
Juatin wants a “Man date”
My guess is if they try to bring any of their own in, they will be laughed off.
Not in Edmonton. I heard that even if Kenney had dropped all the restrictions, Edmonton city council would have imposed more of its own. That’s what you get when you elect a failed Prinz Dummkopf cabinet minister as mayor.
Edmonton city council just voted unanimously to impose their own covidian mandates.
Kate, it’s time for a change:
THE HONKING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL FREEDOM IS PERFECTED.
One thing the pandemic did is show who’s truly essential to the economy and who ain’t. And the teachers themselves have shown us, they ain’t.
The teachers are exposing themselves as to who they are truly looking out for. If they gave2 shits about the kids they would support this fully. One can only hope that this is just union activists and not rank and file teachers. That union needs to be broken up.
Bob, the teachers self interest and ignorance is on display for all to see. Their ignorance about the experimental gene therapy disguised as a “vaccine” is most concerning. That the fools think a mask can stop a virus shows that they are all in when it comes to hysterical insanity.
Unfortunately, the rank and file teachers usually fall obediently into line. More than once I have been a first hand witness to staff room talk. The competent teachers may have problems with the incompetent teachers in a school but when a parent or a principal with some backbone tries to do something about a problem teacher, the teachers in that school and the union immediately close ranks. Never fails and they will back up a teacher who has done some very egregious things. These unions indeed need to be broken up and teachers hired and kept employed on the basis of merit.
Kenney is learning what happens when you make half a decision. By dropping the vax pass requirement but keeping its machinery in place, ready to be reactivated at a moment’s notice, he has refused to dismantle the architecture of tyranny that is at the root of the public’s discontent. And he’s outsourcing the power to reactivate that tyranny to whomever wants to impose it and telling everyone flat-out that he won’t stand up for the Charter rights of Albertans (not to mention he’s still persecuting his political critics by sending his jackbooted thugs out to arrest Christian pastors, which he could stop with a word).
He’s trying to please everyone, and when you do that, you just piss off everyone. You cannot cater simultaneously to the demands of people who only want to be left alone, and the hysterical leftard mask fascists who want everyone leashed, chained, and subservient to the authority of the almighty government. But more importantly, he’s demonstrating that he’s not a conservative, but rather a knee-jerk whimsical tyrant unwilling to give up the powers he has unconstitutionally arrogated to himself. That makes him nothing more than a bog-standard progressive, but without the courage of their demented convictions. He’s Justin Trudeau without the hair.
There’s no such thing as ‘partially free’, Jason. Thought you understood that, but it’s manifestly obvious that you don’t. Tear it all down. Or your political career is finished. Your call.
I think he’s already finished. He’s already angered everyone on every side of him, and his half-in, half-out garbage from yesterday wins him no points from everybody. Musing about an annual shot. Refusing to bar businesses from requiring vax passes. Retaining the vax pass infrastructure.
UCP needs to put a knife in his back, pronto. If he tries leading them into the next election, there’s a good chance Notley gets back in, and she’ll DEFINITELY fire all that vax pass infrastructure right back up to 11.
Kenney’s a snake. He always was. Why Albertans couldn’t see that baffles me.
When it comes to masking, the teachers’ unions, the public health authorities, and the professional experts in child development and in literacy utterly failed our children. I don’t know if they were too stupid to anticipate the risks they endorsed, or if they did know and disregarded them. I find it hard to believe that they didn’t know. This includes pediatricians, educators, child psychologists, reading specialist, speech therapists….. The damage goes beyond health, and social/emotional development; it is also neuro-cognitive. Let’s hope that parents stand up in outrage when the magnitude of the damage is revealed. Maybe some of the masking was unavoidable but note that they could have warned parents and provided tips to mitigate: they didn’t even do that. “
Will this enlarge the demographic of poor readers with all that entails for their future economic wellbeing, leaving them dependent and limited in opportunity? Reading deficits are highly correlated to incarceration, in fact, did you know states use reading scores to predict future prison capacity?
An ounce of prevention…..
If you are a parent or relative of a pre-school child who is in a masked day care or Pre-K setting, double down on the following: reading aloud with feeling and rhythm, teaching nursery rhymes and alliteration (Peter Piper picked a peck….), clearly enunciating the sounds of our language (the distinct, individual sounds composing a syllable or word), and as much interactive speech as possible.” I spy” games are useful, I see something that starts with “b”. You may or may not know this, but your verbal memory, required for reading and writing, is stored in the brain as phonemes (sounds) not letter forms. Yes, all of these tasks are common sense and in the repertoire of most families. If you have a family history of dyslexia and other reading difficulties, then you must incorporate a more systematic, explicit, sequential, repetitive, multi modal approach, too much to go into here.
Reading is foundational to Education, Speech is foundational to Reading. Phonemic awareness is foundational to Speech and Reading. Pre-K Educators, Pediatricians, and Educational Psychologists, and other experts know this. This has become indisputable over the last 20+ years, not to mention that it is common sense. Children must see your facial expressions, the movement of your lips and mouth as you speak, as well as hear clearly and distinctly the separate sounds of our language, not speech muffled by a mask. Think of how little difference there is between the sounds, “t” and “d”, or the other “brother” sound consonants; s-z, k-g etc.
Birth to Kindergarten is a crucial time for activating, establishing and networking those areas of the brain required for Reading fluency and comprehension. This is disrupted and impeded by masking. I expect the population of children with reading difficulties to be greatly increased by masking.
You cannot fix this kind of stupid.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/nj-3-year-old-speech-therapy-mask-mandate-moral-crime
Kenney is quite the amateur magician. What is his stage name, Jason the Jerkoff?
Watch with amazement as I continue making your freedoms disappear while making you believe that I am generously restoring them!
Everybody knows a few teachers.
Call them up and ask them what the hell is wrong with their brains and why they are torturing the children.
Being nice isn’t working.
Your children are not political pawns to be used by the teachers.
If the teacher’s vaccines work, why do they need the kids masked?
How much did the schools get paid?
Uncle Sam made it rain in schools; to take the money, kids have to be masked.
There’s a study out of Germany about kids and masking…
Maybe they should follow the science?
I hate to be accused of the voice of reason on this blog, but I think the anger above directed against teachers is somewhat misplaced. I know, I know. Please, hear me out.
Kenney the Liar is playing Janus here. He feigns surprise, maybe even shock, that teachers are concerned about unmasked kids being vectors of disease, blah, blah, blah. It’s pure politics, people.
What has been the narrative for the past two years? What have the fear-mongers, the Liar Kenney and his bureaucrat Hinshaw, among others, been pushing since day one? “Masks and shots.” Wait, what about… “Masks and shots.” I read here… “Masks and shots.” That medical professional said… “Masks and shots.” But… “Masks and shots.” Iverm… “Masks and shots.”
It’s been driven into the psyche of nearly every person on this planet. Now, there are a select few of us who refused to drink the kool-aid, but many, most did. And, yes, I realize that some teachers are playing politics, as well. However, is there a single soul reading this who doesn’t know someone they thought was otherwise rational & well-meaning, who has fallen for the “Masks and shots” narrative? There are entire families who have swallowed this shit!
OK, let’s go back to the Liar Kenney and his Janus syndrome. On one side of his face he’s been pushing the “Masks and shots” narrative. Now, he’s allegedly had his “Coming to Jesus” moment (aka, CYA) and from the other side of his face he’s “surprised” that the narrative he’s been pummeling us with for more than two years has actually taken hold!
He’s looking for you, me, us, to transfer some of our anger away from him and against someone, anyone. Don’t let him play silly buggers with you. Eye on the ball, people. Cause & effect.
Jes’ sayin’.
Biker, I’d have liked to have ridden with you about 50 years ago when I had my bike. Wife says I’m way too old for one now.
Thx, John. We’d probably have some fun. No such thing as too old to ride. If you can sit, you can ride. Get a trike. Or a hack. Three years ago there were a coupla octogenarians on matching pristine Knucklehead hacks in Sturgis. They rode them all the way from SoCal. Respect.
Time for a new wife. Trade in that 70 (guessing) for a couple 35’s. One rides behind you, t’other in the hack… 😉
Reason #95958483734654748 to homeschool. The education system cannot be reformed until the power of every teachers’ union is destroyed.