Vision for Education

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Children should be taught HOW to think, not WHAT to think.  

Our taxpayer funded education system should be be respectful and reflective of the viewpoint diversity of our society.  This needs to be made explicit in public education policy in Canada because this seemingly common-sense idea about public education is long-lost to classrooms in Canada.  

We are far beyond a scandal of any single educators bringing their biases into the classrooms and indoctrinating children with questionable beliefs.  

Political activist organizations and dogmas are promoted in schools as the "correct views" for children to hold about the world.  Unions, like the BCTF, declare themselves explicitly to be "Social Justice" organizations - which is a doctrine rooted in Critical Theory and Marxist Learning Theory.

In order to build a thriving society, children should be educated with fundamentals not fundamentalism. 

Children should never be burdened with adult worries, fears or issues of behaviour.  

Every society in the world recognizes that children go through developmental stages and recognize that at certain stages children are capable of taking greater responsibility and a larger role in their communities and the world at large; while also recognizing that they need protections from adults while they are young.  

It is clear that schools have lost sight of what is age-appropriate for children and instead of teaching to err on the side of childhood innocence and imagination that respects the cultures of the home and a reasonable degree of modesty, barriers are being torn down in the name of so-called "Inclusion."

 These controversial inclusion doctrines tear down barriers of sexual propriety and protections for children found in all cultures in the world and when parents make attempts to confront school officials violating the boundaries of common modesty and child-protection, they are being villainized and censored and bullied by these bureaucrats.  

The A.I. Revolution is upon us, subsuming the Social Media and Internet Revolutions that came before it and we need a radical revolutionary approach to educating our children and our population at large.

These electronic revolutions dwarf the technological resolutions of the past, like the automobile revolution and the industrial revolution and the Gutenberg Revolution.  

Each of those historical moments was accompanied by radical changes to our approach to preparing our children for the future.

Today we are faced with monumental challenges in a radically transforming world and neither our education system nor our leaders appear capable of either comprehending it or preparing for it.  

We require creativity and innovation to meet the demands of the moment and of the future hurtling towards us.  

In Canada we face a severe housing shortage that will take decades to fix.  We have massive shortages in skilled trades and skilled tech workers.  We are obsessed with sending kids to universities that are simply unemployment deferral mechanisms that flood our economy with even more social justice activists who can't take care of themselves or contribute anything to the world except grievances. 

There are no meaningful choices for Education in Canada.  Each province has its own Ministry of Education and except for Alberta, if a parent wants a different education for their child, they are responsible for funding it themselves. 

Given that schools are not educating children in a manner reflective of the values of the broad society, but politicizing classrooms, parents need an ability to guide their children's education in meaningful ways.

Each province funds the school system based on a per-child allotment.  In Ontario, a child attending a public school means the school board receives about $13,000 in funding.  

A voucher system means that if a parent chooses to send their children to a private school, that the school will receive a provincial voucher towards the cost of educating that child in the same way that the public and Catholic boards do.  

A Charter School is an opportunity for parents to take back control of the education of their children.  Combined with a voucher system, Charter Schools can be build around the shared values of a community.

It is a type of private school where parents and educators get together to come up with a vision of educational values and a worldview that reflects their common aspirations for their children.

Charter Schools are responsible for hiring their own administrators and teachers and the board of directors that creates the charter oversees the school(s) to ensure that they are meeting the standards and expectations set about in the founding documents.

It has become exceptionally clear that entrenched activist power in the Teachers Unions and School Boards will not change easily or quickly.

Individual attempts to confront boards and entrenched policies are proving fruitless and one way to confront these political and institutional forces is to organize Provincial or even a National Parents Rights Unions.

Education Ministries, Unions and Boards, backed and framed by radical activist "Human Rights" doctrines rooted in Critical Theory and victim/oppressor narratives will not surrender their control easily or willingly.  

By banding together and taking mass action, like keeping children home from school in strategic attempts to defund schools and affect the bottom lines of boards may be the only way to accomplish this.