What are they teaching our kids?

Locutus

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TORONTO - "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." - Vladimir Lenin

One school seems to be sowing the seeds of hate against the Jews.

Another seems to be training third graders to learn how to be professional protesters against capitalism and The Harper government.
Who needs that boring reading, writing and arithmetic?

Since taxpayers are helping with the existence of both, should the Toronto District School Board tolerate such madness?

And should the Children's Aid Society be called in?

"Children have a strong sense of justice and empathy," reads a news release from The Grove Community Alternative School. "They recognize the unfairness of putting a pipeline through indigenous territory without consent."

Really? These kids are eight.

Do they teach them that their running shoes come from a polluting country like China or do they know the plastic trucks on their displayed papier mache pipeline prop are made from oil products?

At eight, they shouldn't have to know any of that.

Or have an opinion on anything.

Yet here's this teacher with earrings and a ring through his nose leading 17 of them in a demonstration against the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline outside the Toronto Public Library on Queen St. in Parkdale Monday.

"The teach-in comes at a time when the federal government attempts to squeeze concerned citizens to the fringes of society," says a news release.

This was happening during school hours.

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And they use taxpayer-owned TDSB schools to do it, too.


Brilliant.




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Sun News : What are they teaching our kids?
 

mentalfloss

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Misleading article makes it appear that an isolated event is actually common principle.

Thankfully they do teach critical thinking in schools.
 

Machjo

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I'm wary of Sun News. However, I would say that a school should be strictly apolitical. I have no qualms with religious education, but if the claims about that Madrassah are true, it would seem that it's trying to teach politics under the guise of religion.
 

taxslave

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Misleading article makes it appear that an isolated event is actually common principle.

Thankfully they do teach critical thinking in schools.

Unfortunately that is not an isolated incident. Teachers in BC are forever forcing NDP and environmentalist dogma on their students and use them as hostages in negotiating for higher wages.
 

petros

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You can't "force' a kid to learn or adopt a political stance. FFS, you can't even get them to do dishes.
 

Cliffy

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From SUN news. A joke to start with. The school is not a public school. It was an alternative school where parents who are environmentally concerned send their kids to learn about environmental issues of concern to their parents. As the lady said, SUN news misrepresents facts and pushes their right wing pro Harper, pro oil bias.
 

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From SUN news. A joke to start with. The school is not a public school. It was an alternative school where parents who are environmentally concerned send their kids to learn about environmental issues of concern to their parents.


So, how do you feel about those parents that are theologically concerned and send their kids to a alt school with a religious focus.

Are they fundies in your book? Does that make the eco-school fundies as well?
 

mentalfloss

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From SUN news. A joke to start with. The school is not a public school. It was an alternative school where parents who are environmentally concerned send their kids to learn about environmental issues of concern to their parents. As the lady said, SUN news misrepresents facts and pushes their right wing pro Harper, pro oil bias.

At least they have the Sunshine girl thing going for them.
 

Locutus

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We need more Bucks and fewer 'educators'.


 

Cliffy

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So, how do you feel about those parents that are theologically concerned and send their kids to a alt school with a religious focus.

Are they fundies in your book? Does that make the eco-school fundies as well?
You sure like to change the subject with your straw man nonsense.

Did I say I endorsed this school's agenda? Are Catholic schools "fundie" schools? Do you always need to change the subject when your beloved oil puking buddies are put in the spotlight? Sometimes I think you are as far out in right field as Wally.
 

CDNBear

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Misleading article makes it appear that an isolated event is actually common principle.
This event may be a one off, but there are other events, that similarly raise eyebrows, taking place at Toronto District schools.

It's becoming a concern for some people, who feel their money should be better spent.

Thankfully they do teach critical thinking in schools.
You must have been off sick that day.

From SUN news. A joke to start with. The school is not a public school. It was an alternative school where parents who are environmentally concerned send their kids to learn about environmental issues of concern to their parents. As the lady said, SUN news misrepresents facts and pushes their right wing pro Harper, pro oil bias.
Actually Cliffy, it's a publicly funded school, under the control of the Toronto School Board. The fact that it exists at all, should raise eyebrows.

Funny I had to point that out. With all the self proclaimed free thinkers running around here.

Too lumpy for ya?
She has an inny.
 

taxslave

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Actually Cliffy, it's a publicly funded school, under the control of the Toronto School Board. The fact that it exists at all, should raise eyebrows.

Funny I had to point that out. With all the self proclaimed free thinkers running around here.

She has an inny.


Free thinkers are also free not to think. As the case may be.