QuoteEarlier this week, my Sun News colleague Paige MacPherson interviewed a female teacher on Vancouver Island who had taken her students out of school to protest against Stephen Harper.



The woman explained she taught history and "theory of knowledge" and Canada under the Conservatives was becoming something other than a democracy.



She seemed, in short, to be an idiot. But we do, in fact, live in a democracy and being an idiot is allowed. What is not is corrupting the young.



We all remember in Ontario when Mike Harris was Tory premier and there were frequent examples of teachers introducing partisan politics into the classroom and virtually indoctrinating their students into opposing the policies of the twice-elected government.



There are other and myriad cases of teachers making their politics entirely obvious to their pupils, and those politics are always of a liberal or leftist nature.



Last year in Victoria, B.C., an elementary school teacher named Andrea Joan Skinner was suspended for five days after encouraging her Grade 1 students to write critical letters to the government during class time. But it's extremely rare for teachers to be reprimanded by superiors, who usually agree with them. Teachers' union leaders are extremely powerful and even more radical than their members.



None of this should come as any surprise when we remember how political the education system has become and how often children are used as political pawns by teachers — for politics in general and for their own labour disputes in particular. Surely nobody still takes seriously the claim that teachers go on strike for the sake of the kids. It's a chant, a slogan spasm, an apology disguised as an excuse masquerading as an explanation.



Not all teachers, of course, and most of us in media have received correspondence from teachers who are disgusted by the political antics of some of their comrades, but they are intimidated by the bullying of teachers' unions and the aggression of those with whom they work. But there is something deeper and more sweeping than this and it's sociological as much as political. A culture has developed in the past 30 years where teachers assume that they and not parents are the primary educators and even guardians of the children in their classes.



Their defence could be that family breakdown has caused enormous damage to kids' stability and security, but this attitude extends well beyond young people from broken homes.



We see this particularly clearly in the field of sex education, where teachers and educational bureaucrats have convinced us that only they can properly instruct children in sexuality and sexual formation. Apparently moms and dads — the people who had sex in the first place, thus bringing their offspring into the world — are suddenly fools and prudes who cannot possibly share their knowledge of birds, bees and condoms with those they love and care for most in the world. And, of course, the type of sexuality in question is generally not mainstream and loving but perverse and animalistic.



Teachers, do your job. Leave the politics to the politicians and the parenting to the parents. Or be brave and just get another job.

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QuoteRe: Teachers: Stay Out Of Politics & Parenting



Postby Blue Frost » Sat Jan 11, 2014 3:16 pm



Public schools, and especially higher education is full of politics, and usually on the liberal socialist kind.

It sickens me how so called free thinkers only allow their own free thinking.

Politics in classes should only be allowed with free thought, and the teaching should be unbiased.

As I told my mother the other day, if I did have a kid I would likely school it myself.

State run schools are full of one sided one dimensional, and could care less teaching.

Quote from: "Shen Li"Few things piss me off more than adults who use children as pawns to further their ideological extremism. It's also a complete betrayal of the trust taxpayers who pay their salaries put in them. Should be kicked out of the teaching profession permanently. Another reason why my son will NEVER see the inside of a public school classroom.

QuoteEarlier this week, my Sun News colleague Paige MacPherson interviewed a female teacher on Vancouver Island who had taken her students out of school to protest against Stephen Harper.



The woman explained she taught history and "theory of knowledge" and Canada under the Conservatives was becoming something other than a democracy.



She seemed, in short, to be an idiot. But we do, in fact, live in a democracy and being an idiot is allowed. What is not is corrupting the young.



We all remember in Ontario when Mike Harris was Tory premier and there were frequent examples of teachers introducing partisan politics into the classroom and virtually indoctrinating their students into opposing the policies of the twice-elected government.



There are other and myriad cases of teachers making their politics entirely obvious to their pupils, and those politics are always of a liberal or leftist nature.



Last year in Victoria, B.C., an elementary school teacher named Andrea Joan Skinner was suspended for five days after encouraging her Grade 1 students to write critical letters to the government during class time. But it's extremely rare for teachers to be reprimanded by superiors, who usually agree with them. Teachers' union leaders are extremely powerful and even more radical than their members.



None of this should come as any surprise when we remember how political the education system has become and how often children are used as political pawns by teachers — for politics in general and for their own labour disputes in particular. Surely nobody still takes seriously the claim that teachers go on strike for the sake of the kids. It's a chant, a slogan spasm, an apology disguised as an excuse masquerading as an explanation.



Not all teachers, of course, and most of us in media have received correspondence from teachers who are disgusted by the political antics of some of their comrades, but they are intimidated by the bullying of teachers' unions and the aggression of those with whom they work. But there is something deeper and more sweeping than this and it's sociological as much as political. A culture has developed in the past 30 years where teachers assume that they and not parents are the primary educators and even guardians of the children in their classes.



Their defence could be that family breakdown has caused enormous damage to kids' stability and security, but this attitude extends well beyond young people from broken homes.



We see this particularly clearly in the field of sex education, where teachers and educational bureaucrats have convinced us that only they can properly instruct children in sexuality and sexual formation. Apparently moms and dads — the people who had sex in the first place, thus bringing their offspring into the world — are suddenly fools and prudes who cannot possibly share their knowledge of birds, bees and condoms with those they love and care for most in the world. And, of course, the type of sexuality in question is generally not mainstream and loving but perverse and animalistic.



Teachers, do your job. Leave the politics to the politicians and the parenting to the parents. Or be brave and just get another job.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2014/01/09/teachers-stay-out-of-politics-parenting">http://www.edmontonsun.com/2014/01/09/t ... -parenting">http://www.edmontonsun.com/2014/01/09/teachers-stay-out-of-politics-parenting

Quote from: "Fashionista"This is yet another reminder of why the decision to send my children to a private Christian school was a good one despite the expense.

Quote from: "Shen Li"

Quote from: "Fashionista"This is yet another reminder of why the decision to send my children to a private Christian school was a good one despite the expense.

I went to a private school in China and public schools in Canada. I would never even consider sending my son to a public school. Fuck, I would even consider xtian schools before the public ones.