"When the religious right goes after Halloween, it’s for the holiday’s dark and Satanic undertones. Now it’s the progressive left adopting the same tactic, albeit with different language and ideological priors. Funny how the logic changes, but the targets stay the same." What a strange world that the far left and the far right have more in common than they have differences.
This also reminds me of the crazy story where two Yale professors were harassed for telling students that they should be able to handle their own Halloween costumes without direct guidance from administrators. That apparently made the students feel 'unsafe' and the professors were eventually forced to leave. When exactly did students change from fighting back against the 'man' to wanting more rules from the 'man'?
Too often, elected trustees are in way over their heads, decisions are reactionary, and the board staff end up chasing their tails or worse implementing nonsensical, spur of the moment directives. All in the attempt at trying to look effective, but only proving that the trustee role in Ontario has been disempowered completely and set up to fail. Mostly by clawing back adequate funding, but also by setting up trustees to flail helplessly in politically charged issues.
All the other parents who are compelled to send their children to public school but who might take umbrage at the over-the-top and dogmatic manifesto chose to stay quiet.
And I don't need to explain why. You can bet that any parent speaking up will be subject to a viscous online campaign to silence them. You need balls of steel to stay true!
and measuring enrollment in private schools won't show the 'exit' strategy to homeschooling or co-operative homeschooling ventures (a more doable situation if both parents work)
There seems to be a prevailing misnomer that only privileged and elite families attend private/independent schools. This is a myth https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-publicly-educated-parents-seeking-other-options-for-kids. The average tuition in these schools, usually averages the same amount that a family pays, per child, for extracurricular tutoring children now receive that attend public school. And, these days, about 1 in 3 kids go to extracurricular tutoring...usually by the age of 9. If not younger. Many of these families have fled the system simply because it has failed them. Unless priorities are put back on the child, rather than on top system governance, the exodus will continue.
"When the religious right goes after Halloween, it’s for the holiday’s dark and Satanic undertones. Now it’s the progressive left adopting the same tactic, albeit with different language and ideological priors. Funny how the logic changes, but the targets stay the same." What a strange world that the far left and the far right have more in common than they have differences.
This also reminds me of the crazy story where two Yale professors were harassed for telling students that they should be able to handle their own Halloween costumes without direct guidance from administrators. That apparently made the students feel 'unsafe' and the professors were eventually forced to leave. When exactly did students change from fighting back against the 'man' to wanting more rules from the 'man'?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new-intolerance-of-student-activism-at-yale/414810/.
So good. Your takedown of board wokery was spot on, making your smart, serious points all the sharper.
Too often, elected trustees are in way over their heads, decisions are reactionary, and the board staff end up chasing their tails or worse implementing nonsensical, spur of the moment directives. All in the attempt at trying to look effective, but only proving that the trustee role in Ontario has been disempowered completely and set up to fail. Mostly by clawing back adequate funding, but also by setting up trustees to flail helplessly in politically charged issues.
All the other parents who are compelled to send their children to public school but who might take umbrage at the over-the-top and dogmatic manifesto chose to stay quiet.
And I don't need to explain why. You can bet that any parent speaking up will be subject to a viscous online campaign to silence them. You need balls of steel to stay true!
and measuring enrollment in private schools won't show the 'exit' strategy to homeschooling or co-operative homeschooling ventures (a more doable situation if both parents work)
There seems to be a prevailing misnomer that only privileged and elite families attend private/independent schools. This is a myth https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-publicly-educated-parents-seeking-other-options-for-kids. The average tuition in these schools, usually averages the same amount that a family pays, per child, for extracurricular tutoring children now receive that attend public school. And, these days, about 1 in 3 kids go to extracurricular tutoring...usually by the age of 9. If not younger. Many of these families have fled the system simply because it has failed them. Unless priorities are put back on the child, rather than on top system governance, the exodus will continue.