72 Replies to “The Children Are Our Future”

  2. I know that I have posted this before and apologies if I am “boring you”. I truly believe that the K-12 public school system will be very different in 10-15 years. The only ones using it will be the parents who don’t care about their children’s education.

    Already there is a move to more charter schools, private schools and the COVID-19 has taught parents that they can teach their own sons and daughters with the use of the Internet. Going to school is only good for seeing your friends who do not live close to you.

    1. Parents who keep their children in the public skool system in Canada should be charged with child endangerment and/or child abuse.

      There is absolutely not one excuse that would stand up against that statement, none!!

    2. Big Momma, if the commies have their way, and they seem to be having their way, in ten to fifteen years they will all be dead.

    3. Yes that is a line I’m using a lot these day: Why not home school? There is plenty of support on the internet and parents and gang together to get specialized subjects taught.

      1. Perhaps both parents have to work to afford even a modest lifestyle? Not to mention that it’s not every parent who can cope with being with the children all day long and home schooling to boot. Even the Duke of Norfolk (Prince William) has revealed that he didn’t have the patience he thought he had while coping with all the children at home.

    1. “Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.”
      “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
      —Vladimir Lenin

      The question is, what are we going to do about it?

  4. Not only that, but the NDP of Alberta are running neck to neck … could even win again …. Alberta isn’t what you think it is anymore. It’s becoming another left-leaning gulag.

    Bummer.

    I used to like and respect that province. Lived in it for 16 years.

    1. It’s becoming another left-leaning gulag. =

      It wouldn’t be that way if a certain politician, who was voted into office last year, got off his backside and actually did his job. If he won’t fight for Alberta, my vote will go to a party that does.

      1. I am not really happy with him. I suggested to him that Alberta first stuff should be promoted. Show the country we seriously care about our province. Alberta having its own police would be a tiny start as long as they don’t use Alberta Sheriffs, the retarded cue balls, as a model. Follow this with the Alberta Pension Plan, a new Calgary Stock Exchange, and the list could go on and on. Do everything that Quebec does to thumb its nose at Canada. That way, if a split is necessary, we are 90% of the way there. Unless I get a signal, I voted Conservative for the last time in my life last year. I actually think Red Rachel wasn’t any worse than Kenney. That said, she was an incompetent fool.

    2. Meh. When there is no discernible difference between 2 party’s platform’s, the rational thing to do is simply flip a coin.

      Rachel Notely, Jason Kenney
      Trudeau, O’Toole, Singh, …
      Moe, Miele
      — which one will build fewer wind turbines?
      — which one would stop building unreliables entirely?
      — which one will reduce the size of government?
      — which one will cut the size of anything?
      — which one would repeal a single regulation?
      — which one would add more new rules, regulation, fines, … ?
      — which one will lie harder about “balancing” the budget?
      — which one will commit to nuclear power?
      — which one would use the not withstanding clause?
      — which one will get Alberta/Saskatchewan/BC interior TFOOC (The F Out Of Canada)?
      — which one will launch a Thatcherite attack on the power of unions?
      — which one will crush your enemies, drive them before you, so you can hear the lamentations of their women?

      In the USA? TRUMP, without any equivocation, no buts, no ifs, no ands.

      In Canada? It will never be anyone allowed anywhere near the CPoC. As certain as death, and taxes.

      1. Trump’s advantage is that the establishment that has for many years made the life of those outside the establishment a living hell, collectively lose theirs &hit anytime Trump merely tweets.
        The average voter distrusts all politicians and official Washington as far as they can tell shares no common cause with those that believe the constitution is there for their benefit and not to protect interest groups or government. From the average American’s point of view, they don’t feel any particular affinity for Trump, but they do support someone that has proven he will make life just as difficult for the beltway as the beltway has made life difficult for them.
        This is why Trump will be re-elected.
        Democrats still don’t grasp this as they continue to lecture the “deplorables” about how wrong they were for electing someone that is tearing down their playhouse.

      2. I would add:
        — which one will end state supported infant genocide (abortion).
        — which one will end the fake Wuhan flu pandemic.
        — which one will drive the Marxists and Communists out of the public and university school systems.
        — which one will stop supporting perversion LGBT etc.
        — which one will run coal fired power plants.

        1. Lone Ranger, it’s people like you who are the problem, now quit trying to shove your religious based bullshit down other people’s throat

          1. You can easily separate religion from abortion so not all those who oppose abortion are the problem–and why are religious people so bothersome to you?

          2. NME666 It’s people like you who represent the evil (666) in this world. Life is a battle between evil and good. We all know that in the end God wins. How are you enjoying the prospects of Hell?

          3. I don’t see any religion in LR’s rant. I agree with most of it and will agree to disagree with anything that I don’t. That is how we did this sort of thing just one generation ago.

            Now everyone is wearing their contempt and hatreds on their sleeves. Zero tolerance and no redemption, ever.

            Not the sort of place a civilized person would care live. How do you think that happened?

      3. Well Kevin, I have been saying for decades that all are the same and Canadians want to get everything for nothing. No one in Canada and most in America these days have no freaking idea what individual freedom even means, sad but true. We post and yap but just who has any of us brought up short as they say, and corrected their stupid notions? I have have tried, yet I am one old man very close to the end and have to read drivel from people who know less than I have forgotten. Trump is only what is termed a stop gap, because the left has been undermining our society for at least 100years. Get your mind around that. I see civil war if there are enough patriots to take down the communists. But hey, I won’t hold my breath.

    3. I would be a little careful with the hysterics. The only reason why the NDP and the UCP are close is due to heavy bleeding to the RIGHT…..not the left.

    4. Alberta was flush with success. People go where the work takes them and they take their politics with them. It gets worse when they decide to live in Alberta full time where inevitably some will enter the political field to spread their socialist goodness.

      Take for instance the one time Ottawa resident and lobbyist who was featured on this very blog crying the blues because he was dinged by the CRA for not registering which cost him a lot of dough and his marriage. Yeah, shame.
      I did a little research on him via twitter and his own blog that he operates… turns out after all his troubles he packed up his stuff and went to Calgary because of work opportunities.
      So what’s his political persuasion? NDP of course. And rather a hardcore one at that despite his negative interactions with the sitting Liberal gov’t in Ottawa.

      And that’s how that works.

  5. What the %$@# did anyone expect from a PUBLIC Service that has been Unionized since the mid 60’s….hmmm.? Those in the upper echelons of Education across this country are the darlings of the Communist Party” of Canada….your local NDP.

    Were I to be the age of rearing school aged children – they would be home taught. The question then would become, how can the state take my hard earned monies to pay for their “public education” when My kids do not use that propaganda service.
    That would be a fight….And one that should happen even today.

    Kids today are not “educated”, they are indoctrinated…..and from whence came BLM – AntiFa.

    1. One problem is that the public education system believes that the kiddies are dumb, don’t know anything, and can’t think for themselves.

      That’s not new. I recall that there was a news publication geared for school children while I was in elementary school. (I don’t remember if it was free or if we had to pay for it.) It presented a watered-down account of current affairs, though I don’t think too many of us paid attention to it.

      Then again, I was in that generation of school children who was used as guinea pigs for all sorts of educational “experiments” (open classrooms, anyone?).

    1. Congratulations Ward! Nothing worth doing is easy. You will find this a wonderfully rewarding experience. You will benefit as much as your children. Enjoy.

    3. Very well done Ward.

      Now you will get your kids back, no more state-sponsored Marxist mantras being shoved down their throats.

      Your kids will flourish, emotionally, intilectually and relationally.

      Ours did.

    1. It seems ridiculously stupid that wealthy individuals & Corporations would FUND a rebellion that will result in the destruction of ALL their existing Wealth & Ownership Rights… The existing Republic will fall regardless of who wins….The existing Billionaires will all be living on the Streets without a dime…..

      The only way they win is if the Republic STANDS… and they are just stirring the pot to get rid of the ignorant….

      JMHO

      1. One would think that the billionaires and other such characters are supporting the mayhem because it won’t touch them. They can always find a shelter in Burkina Faso or other exotic places where it will take some time to find them. By that time though the cancer of socialism/fascism/communism will be wide spread so there may be small chance to hide.

        One of the memos of Ms. Kate goes something like joining the enemy is not going to make them your friends.
        Those rich socialist aristocrats probably know this and will get there one day. Of course their hope is that by that time they will be pretty much in horizontal position.
        While one can get really angry at their ability to mouth off bullshit with their silver tongues there is very little and nothing that can be done by your plebeian.

        Invariably, Trump is the only one in the position to change that, he can do much while he is the president, once he is finished with that, it seems that the US and the rest of the world are gonna be on the road into the abyss.
        There is no politician in today’s world that have the guts to do anything like Trump is doing. Once Boris, Ford in Ontario did well for a while, they folded as did all the supposed conservatives.
        There are few in the US congress, though they don’t have the critical mass.

        Well ….. whatever.

  8. Same sh*t different day. Another article about what they’re teaching our kids and our blood pressure rises. But the root problem is parental apathy and to be quite frank it’s killing this country. And leftists are well aware of this. If we don’t want to get involved at the local level, ie. School Boards/trustees, municipal politics to voice your concerns and hold them to account…others with no skin in the game and with agendas will gladly step in for you.
    Everything flows downstream from local politics.

    I’d like to say it’s not too late…but I think it is.

    1. You are absolutely right burton. There will be a few who are made stronger by this adversity but for most of us it is too late.

      1. Until ALL the parents who are not on board with this crap, pull their kids out of school (go on strike), until this is gone, nothing will change at the schools. At a UK school in a heavily Muslim area, 80% of the kids were kept home when a new LGBTQ curriculum began. The school rethought things and abandoned the curriculum. There is power in numbers.

        1. “Until ALL the parents who are not on board with this crap, pull their kids out of school (go on strike), until this is gone, nothing will change at the schools.”

          Geez, another one who gets it. Not many of us, though.

        2. There is power in numbers, especially when quite a number, of those numbers will be quite happy to cut your throat, if you don’t smarten up and dance to their tune.

  10. Soon our kids will be demanding parents to take care of them for life as a right from school teachings…almost there now.

  11. The Jesuits had a saying – “Give me the child, and I will give you the man.”

    Indoctrination of the children is always the most effective method of gaining power.

  13. Raise hell about this and do it fast. And this comes from a former teacher that would never have allowed this kind of indoctrination in his school.

  14. Ward – good for you. I dont have any children of school age but like you – they would not be in that brainwashing organization – Unionized Teachers!
    My nephew called his local school and upbraided the Principal about putting fear Over this Plandemic bull$hit into his adopted grandchild. Tried calling the Superintendent but that was a no go.

  15. What to add?…

    I shudder to think what would become of a teacher who dared teach his students about the real nature and causes of the Negro problem in the United States. It’s hard to tell if the teacher genuinely believes the propaganda (clearly distilled unquestioningly from globalist newspapers for adults) or is afraid to tell the truth.

    What would be on my lesson plan if I were asked to teach the Negro question?

    I might start with the support of Negro emancipation by Karl Marx, who saw it as a way to hurry along the destruction of capitalism. Those who wished their fellow Americans well supported the deportation of the Negroes to Liberia.

    Lincoln paid more attention to Marx’s rants in the New York Tribune than the wisdom of his fellow Americans. The republic has paid for it ever since.

    1. A culture of failure and no appreciation for inter-generational betterment? Black American subculture believes the reason for lack of success is discrimination. How does that explain Black Nigerian immigrants being more successful than white Americans on average? Is it because they don’t come pre-loaded with a culture of failure?

      My parents did everything they could do to see that I was well educated and I have done the same for my kids and my kids are doing the same for their kids. Piano lessons, martial arts lessons, baseball, football, golf lessons, dance lessons, guitar lessons, voice lessons, travel to San Francisco, New York, Florida. That’s a fraction of my kids experiences. They were driven nuts but gained an appreciation of their place in the world and that success or failure was entirely in their own hands. I suspect inner city kids are out of their element a couple miles from home.

  16. I was trying to find the percentage of blacks in Canada, and I couldn’t. There is no such listing. The listing of ethnicity refers to country of origin, where the plurality simply lists “Canada.” The rest are predominantly different European countries, with a smattering of Asian countries. The only conclusion I can draw is, unlike the U.S., there are very few blacks or, for that matter, Hispanics in Canada.
    So why are Canadian politicians so concerned about indoctrinating a point of view regarding the treatment of blacks? It would be more understandable, even if equally unreasonable, to study First Nations Lives Matter.
    The same is true in Europe. In European soccer competition between nations (UEFA Nations’ League) they play the national anthems of the two nations, and players of both nations stand respectfully, most sing their own anthem. Then they take their positions on the field, but are made to kneel two minutes in solidarity with BLM before playing. In Europe, where there are very few native blacks, they should be more concerned with M(uslim)LM. And if they are so concerned about social justice for minorities thousands of miles away, they should say something about the (very real) concentration camps for Uyghurs in Sinkiang “Autonomous Region” in China.
    The truth of the matter is there is no systemic racism against blacks in the U.S. cities. Hell most of them are run by left wing Democrats who themselves are the ones claiming systemic racism. When Gray died of OD while in police custody, the entire power structure of Baltimore was black! That included the police commissioner and the police chief. Right now, the Attorney General of the state of Kentucky, which is the state Louisville belongs to, is black.
    The only rational explanation for this phenomenon in Canada and Europe is that most of Canada and (at least western) Europe are overrun by socialists. They dislike the U.S. in general, but found a sole mate in Obama. Since Trump declared America First, they have been infected with TDS as badly as say American media. The BLM thing is just a way of getting at Trump’s America.
    Since I brought up Louisville, let me explain the American system of Grand Jury to my Canadian friends.
    The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution codified the Grand Jury, which actually had been in existence since colonial days. “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury …” It is usually comprised of 23 (hence grand) ordinary citizens but differs from a trial jury in several ways. It is independent, not presided over by a judge, and meets behind closed doors until it makes its decision. Unless it wishes to, neither side is summoned to present its case. It looks at the evidence, which can include hearsay, and needs only a simple majority for indictment. That is, it decides on whether there is a reasonable case at all, not the actual guilt or innocence, and in contrast to the trial jury, is much more weighed towards the prosecution.
    The Grand Jury has been a bedrock of American jurisprudence. Its very existence is an added protection of the citizen against frivolous harassment by the state. We recognize that, even if ultimately found innocent, a murder trial is a very harrowing experience to be subjected to. On the other hand, the simple majority required for indictment protects the state from possible corruption of jurors by the defense. If it declines to indict, it means there is no case. It is a better system, may I say, than mob rule.

    1. “or, for that matter, Hispanics in Canada.”

      I have always wondered about the Hispanic thing in the US. In Canada we don’t consider them some kind of special retard in need of assistance. I’ve known a couple Mexicans and they did just fine on their own. One is a computer consultant.

    2. Grand jury? It would take a really incompetent prosecutor not to get an indictment if he wants it. He gets to selectively present all the evidence. I suspect if someone is not indicted by a grand jury, the prosecutor did not wish it happen.

      1. Spoken out of total ignorance.

        The Grand Jury is a jury comprised of ordinary citizens. Just like a trial jury. It is associated with the court that will try the case if the Grand Jury brought in an indictment. It is not associated with “the prosecutor.” In any case, if the case were tried in the state superior court, which I suspect it is, the prosecution will be handled by the office of the state attorney general, who just happens to be a Black.

        With your lack of trust and cynicism, you may as well discard the entire system of jurisprudence in the western civilization, which is predicated on trial by jury. What prithee, would you replace it with? It has worked well on the whole. Even with the celebrated counter examples, with the sheer volume of cases, miscarriages of justice have been few and far in between. But no, here you actually want a kangaroo court conviction to satisfy the mob.

        Oh, on the prosecutor “gets to selectively present all the evidence.” He gets to present his side of the case, but there are no surprises, with the principle of discovery. Even though now discovery can go the other way, it is still the defense which is much more likely to spring a surprise.

        1. I think grand juries come up with surprises and rare cases of independence come when the grand jury has knowledge of the case outside that presented by the prosecutor. Canada has long since abandoned the grand jury system for independent professional prosecutors making decisions on prosecutions. We sometimes have Preliminary Hearings for serious offences which are like grand juries but are presided over by a judge who decides if there is sufficient evidence for a trial but they are not universal.

    3. OB, you want a percentage, how about 2%. at most. No matter how many the liberal white guys want to dilute our society. LSWR.

    4. Thanks Old Bruin, I knew a lot of it (Grand Jury info) but you enlightened me on a number of points.

  18. Alberta. Where Grant Fuhr is still adored and Jarome Iginla would win the Calgary mayoral race in a huge landslide if he chose to run. Where most of the black people are Caribbean.

    Alberta, bound.

  19. Years back on this blog I suggested Alberta was as socialist as any province in Canada. I’d observed the move left over many decades as a brown shirt/blue shirt in conservative politics. The newly arrived brought their politics with them as stated elsewhere.

    My suggestion was immediately met with scorn. I was told I didn’t know what I was talking about. I got ‘curbed’ -ha.

    Along came red ed, red allision and finally red rachael. All products of the left. With red rachael the left finally departed the progressive conservatives and concentrated their unionista public service power base with the ndp. They are now capable of forming government in any election. Mission accomplished.

    The hard core conservative base is still rural route and to some extent oil patch (not head office) including the struggling small business community.

    Now we complain about the curriculum being taught in the public school system? Alberta is as socialist as any part of this country. There I said it again.

  20. Winston Smith’s neighbor, Tom Parsons, is denounced by his own daughter to the Thought Police.
    That’s my kid and that teacher is getting a private, secure and unforgettable lesson.

  21. Problems started when parents started seeing schools as daycare centers and were too busy with other things to care what their children were being taught.

  23. I believe all students should be taught at home, have a group of parents get together and hire a teacher to teach at a location in ones home or in a church basement. Going back to the ONE ROOM school house, students can be at different levels. This worked for many years so why not do it again. Get BLM out of school and Antifa will be next…this has nothing to do will learning. Education in math, english, history, geography, reading, spelling, writing, health. Sports are a side line that can be enjoyed when lesson are finished. Get rid on the UNIONS they suck the life out of education as it once was.

    1. You forgot science: biology, chemistry, physics.
      Also, since we are talking about home schools unencumbered by regulations, civics and religion, the latter where applicable, as in a church basement.

  25. I have genuine doubts about this. Is it really Grade 7??? The text level looks, at best, G5 and the child’s writing grade 3.

  26. From inside the belly of the Education beast, I tell every parent I know who is concerned about what is going on in the public schools to drop out. When that big yellow school bus pulls up outside your house, you are not compelled to put your children on it. If you can’t find an affordable independent school nearby (or, even if you can), consider homeschooling. There are organizations that support homeschoolers with information and can put you in touch with others to encourage cooperation.

    Similarly, I would say to churches and charitable organizations, you can support parents interested in an authentic education for their children. Try to make your church hall or basement available. Encourage members of your congregation or parish to support such schools, directly, or through fund-raising activities. In my old hometown parish, with a congregation primarily of retired folks, people pitched in to raise funds to support a Catholic parochial school without a single Catholic child in attendance, giving a number of African-American children a solid and affordable educational start in life. Those of us whose children are grown or who are childless can do so much to support alternatives to the educational-industrial complex.

    Having taught almost two generations of teachers, I know that there are some truly excellent teachers in our public schools, but they are often hamstrung by the mandated curriculum and, increasingly, by the demand to have their students meet various “outcomes”, many of which are thinly disguised efforts at leftist propaganda. There are also a great many teachers with their BA and BEd degrees who, like Randy Newman’s “college men from LSU” “went in dumb; came out dumb, too”. They are far more likely to have a poster in their classrooms of Che Guevara than Sir John A. MacDonald or Winston Churchill.

    You may have some very good teachers and perhaps some good schools in your community. Or you may not believe you have an alternative to sending your children to public school. But please remember, if you really care about your children, understand that you are their primary educators, and if you are not teaching them yourself, you have an obligation to monitor what they are being taught.

    What you see in the picture attached to this post is the reality of contemporary education. Be warned, and take action.

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