Brian Zinchuk: Saskatchewan’s Oil and Gas 20 high school class is everything I hoped for.
“All-in-all, the new Oil and Gas 20 and 30 classes are among the best things I’ve seen the Saskatchewan government do for the oilpatch. Thank you to the premier, ministers who have implemented it (Jeremy Cockrill and Everett Hindley), Saskatchewan Distance Learning Centre. and all in the ministry and oil companies who made it happen. And thank you for having the courage to do so, in spite of the braying criticism.
“For parents in the oil patch whose kids might have an inkling to follow in their footsteps, I strongly urge you to sign them up for next year’s class. This year the numbers were limited. Hopefully that will be expanded. Don’t miss out.
“Our industry needed this affirmation. We matter. And our kids need a chance to learn about it.
“Bravo.”
And for those who might not have seen the initial criticism of the very idea of oil companies getting involved with a class about their industry, from last summer here’s Murray Mandryk and Phil Tank.
This is a good idea, but it depends on the teachers…
Will these classes be taught by trannies or furries?
Methinks Mandy and Tank are of this ilk: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-06/canadians-support-using-oil-as-weapon-if-trump-starts-trade-war/
Sorry, no to Bloomberg.
Very impressive. I also was skeptical upon the initial news. Kudos to Saskatchewan’s people who’ve come along way in the last 30 years. Their students are fortunate to have such farsighted parents and leaders.
Excellent. If anything, this will help balance out all of the climate craze peddled in the student’s other classes.
I learned my initial chemistry from: Senior Chemistry for Secondary Schools, 1955, by the Copp Clark Publishing Co, LTD (Vancouver/Toronto/Montreal, and I saved a copy before it was thrown out.
It had one thing missing from most modern textbooks, how these elements and compounds used in the classroom are mined or produced.
Now I understand chemistry classes are almost exclusively mathematics and simulations of chemical reactions on computers with the children having no idea of how sulphur is mined, never mind how it smells when ignited, nor of laboratory safety.
Good idea. Interesting curiculum, mostly. I see they sneaked in “effective communications strategy” in there which is a bit in left field but it would not hurt the kids and I bet they don’t even learn that at school