Kathleen Wynne rips Monte McNaughton over sex-ed protest speech

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Kathleen Wynne rips Monte McNaughton over sex-ed protest speech

Premier Kathleen Wynne says it is “outrageous” and “irresponsible” that a Tory MPP is undermining the publicly funded school system by advocating that parents home-school their children instead.

Progressive Conservative MPP Monte McNaughton, who fiercely oppo‎ses the Liberal government’s new sex-ed curriculum, was a speaker at an information session last week in London, Ont., on home schooling and parents’ legal rights.

“For an MPP at Queen’s Park … to be at a sort of ‘how to withdraw your kids from school’ seems pretty outrageous to me,” Wynne told the Star.

She said she knows his appearance there is connected to the Lambton-Kent-Middlesex MPP’s strong opposition to the update to the 1997 sex-ed curriculum.

“It really shines a light on the different value systems ... I believe that updating our health and education curriculum, supporting kids in our publicly funded schools to be safe, to have the information they need is very important,” she said.


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petros

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Academic Performance



The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests. (The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.)


Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents’ level of formal education or their family’s household income.


Whether homeschool parents were ever certified teachers is not related to their children’s academic achievement.


Degree of state control and regulation of homeschooling is not related to academic achievement.


Home-educated students typically score above average on the SAT and ACT tests that colleges consider for admissions.


Homeschool students are increasingly being actively recruited by colleges

Research Facts on Homeschooling | Research
 

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The Board of Education doesn't let the parents have input into what the public school curriculum should be. That's why so many parents are unhappy with the school system. If parents aren't happy with what and how their children are taught what recourse to they have besides home schooling? Not everyone can afford a private school.
What right does Wynne or any other politician to control your child's education?
It is obvious from the limited vocabularies, reading, writing, spelling, and mathematical skills of today's youth that the school system is failing.
I don't know the details of the new sex education curriculum but from what I have heard, I don't think I would like it either. And if the parents object, why don't they make it a 'voluntary' subject?
As far back as the '70s when my son was in public school the system was lacking. I taught my son a lot of things that the school didn't teach him (one important one was the multiplication table). The schools were turning more toward social classes and the academics were being skimmed over.
Our school systems are light years behind those of other countries.
 

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Sex Ed can be summed up in two words.

Be respectful.

If your kid can't figure out where to put his cock then there is no hope and luckily the odds of that dolt not breeding are bloody good.
 

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mr wynne and his brood know best about little children and their learning and development here kids.

The Case of Kathleen Wynne's Former "Advisor" Ben Levin





Ben Levin, the bloke who once served as Deputy Minister to then-Ontario Minister of Education Kathleen Wynne (and whose name, for obvious reasons, you will never hear now-Premier Wynne mentioning on the campaign hustings), is still facing some embarrassing charges related to an alleged fondness for kiddie porn. And even though none of this is new—or even news—Wikipedia, which prides itself on up-to-date entries, is apparently refusing to allow anything about the arrest or the charges onto its Ben Levin page.

http://forums.canadiancontent.net/canadian-politics/125218-case-kathleen-wynnes-former-advisor.html



Former Ontario education deputy minister pleads guilty to three child porn charges | National Post

anyway...
 

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There is nothing wrong with teaching tolerance at all. Children should be in the
public school system learning how to learn and interacting with other children.
There is nothing wrong with teaching kids about others who are different.
Yup help them to understand about sexual differences and social and color
differences and even that some are afraid of their own shadow or have the
view that they are superior and there is the religious intolerant we have to
let them know about them too.
 

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Then the "perimeter" of their knowledge is limited to that of the parents.



Methinks some folks need that written in purple, Pete! :) :)
Academic Performance

The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests. (The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.)

Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents’ level of formal education or their family’s household income.

Whether homeschool parents were ever certified teachers is not related to their children’s academic achievement.

Degree of state control and regulation of homeschooling is not related to academic achievement.

Home-educated students typically score above average on the SAT and ACT tests that colleges consider for admissions.

Homeschool students are increasingly being actively recruited by colleges

Research Facts on Homeschooling | Research
Purple? Pfffffffb!!!!
 

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There is nothing wrong with teaching tolerance at all. Children should be in the
public school system learning how to learn and interacting with other children.
There is nothing wrong with teaching kids about others who are different.
Yup help them to understand about sexual differences and social and color
differences and even that some are afraid of their own shadow or have the
view that they are superior and there is the religious intolerant we have to
let them know about them too.
GEE I wonder why the last B.C. NDP government's education minister sent his kids to private school ?
 

davesmom

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Then the "perimeter" of their knowledge is limited to that of the parents.

I don't think so. 1) you're assuming that the parents are 'uneducated'? That they don't have access to knowledge of what
to teach their children?
2) parents are no more 'limited' that teachers are. It is not the amount of knowledge that one
possesses that matters; the necessary knowledge can be attained by anyone looking for
it. The only way that trained teachers might be more skilled is in their methods of teaching.