Saturday On Turtle Island

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1. From the ‘Breaking the Democrats’ link to the NY Post, this summary down at the bottom of the article is the best description yet of Kamalala’s campaign strategy.

   “Well, it turned out that the strategy to “insult the voters’ intelligence,” and then just “insult the voters,” didn’t work all that well.”

   Good article, and it applies in large part to Canada, too.

2. Re: flailing woke elites

   ‘Liberals are funniest when they are out of power.’
   – the late, great Rush Limbaugh

3. I am beginning to think the TSB should be disbanded and all woke members of all school boards be removed and saner people put in their place or, get rid of all school boards and hand the running of ALL schools in the hands of the provinces.

   1. Eliminate the school boards, let each student be given a voucher, and have the schools run by trustees and the parent council for each school, with the requirement that you have a student in the school to participate for election in august of each year.

      At the very least, it would get more money into the schools, rather than being consumed by the hangers on at each of the boards.

   2. I’ve seen it here in Ottawa close up. People with political ambitions, or are ideologically driven, run for school boards. The latter set the agenda, the former just stay quiet until they can run for city councillor or a parliamentary seat, provincial or federal. The turnout is so low that anyone with the urge to run can get in just by asking their friends and familly to get out and vote for them. The ideologically driven can also play up to the local district labour council or such-like government employee union.

      This communist takeover can be ended if only regular Joes ran. Also, like JD, a voucher system will work. That’s really popular with the teachers’ unions and ideologues /sarc 🙂

4. Um traditional Native schools did not exist, thus wouldn’t a tree filled woodlot be their usual mode of education via outside in the woods.

5. couldn’t agree with you more Steve O. as inconvenient as the task might be, the only solution is the ratepayers actually voting on these type of proposals. Clearly the Toronto school board trustees are incompetant ( why is this always the case in big cities) and do not respect the ratepayers. just one more reason why we should have right of recall legislation for EVERY elected position, and mandatory plebecites for projects in excess of a pre-determined cost threshold. Some might say,”Doesn’t that eliminate the need to trustees”? Perhaps..

6. What is a fully indigenized school? Why would anyone care for that? Are Palestinian fake refugees going to attend and learn how to hunt buffalo and make teepees, maybe take that “knowledge” back to their shithole to rebuild…

   1. The traditional methods of hunting should use spear, bow and arrow, stone knives, spear heads and arrow heads.

7. What is it they teach at the FN school? Indigenous writing and mathematics? Very short syllabus I’d say.

8. Yes VDH … I’m one of those Trump supporters who cheers every “crazy” thing (they’re actually NOT crazy if you listen past the “inflammatory” rhetoric) Trump says. And yes, precisely because it explodes the Democrat-Media complex heads. I love the smell of their fear in the morning … it smells of VICTORY!

9. You need to read all the way to the end. “[…]the smell, and the acoustics[…]” This isn’t about the redskins; teachers are cynical jobsworths who don’t believe a word of what they’re spouting. The AWFLs don’t want to teach in an old drafty smelly building any more. They want the board to build them a nice shiny new one so they can feel smug. It’s no different than your harridan wife demanding the living room be remodeled.

10. TDSB said the only way to eliminate the “association with residential schools and to provide instructional spaces suited for Indigenous ways of learning,” is to construct a new facility that must be “designed by Indigenous architects” for Indigenous communities.

    Funny thing is that many a building designed by indigenous architects have been problematic with leaking roofs, structural issues, mold and bad air quality due to poor ventilation.

    So yeah, like a tepee