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Today’s lesson: Soaking the system: Tom Bartlett
By Tom Bartlett
On TVO’s “The Agenda,” Steve Paikin amassed a number of disgruntled teachers who felt they had been unjustly vilified and wanted to air their grievances. As one who has worked in the public sector most of his career, I have been careful not to group all teachers together – thus stressing (as I will here) my sentiments are reserved for the union itself and those who adopt the union position carte blanche. I distinguish between willing cogs in the wheel of corruption as opposed to the workers and clients being rolled over by said wheel. Here’s what the cogs had to say for themselves.
New Jersey’s school war on children
ChristianGovernance eletter – January 16, 2013
An NJ school board has suspended a teacher for talking Christianity with a student, and giving him a Bible. This was all at the initiation of the student, not the teacher, but the stalinist protocol for protectionism at this humanist gov’t school still kicked in. They can’t protect students from bullying. They won’t protect them from sex and STDs. But, come hell or high water, they’ll protect them from Christianity!!
Marxist union agenda smashed by Wisconsin Governor Walker win
The Tea Party Economist – June 6, 2012
Wisconsin’s Walker Smashes Unions and the New York Times
By Gary North
Scott Walker, a Republican Tea Party governor, smashed the labor unions that had organized a recall election. He defeated his hapless opponent by 53% to 46%. His opponent was the same poor soul who ran against him in 2010. He beat him by more. He also beat the New York Times, which yesterday informed its readers:
Red Square, a Time Machine and Mindless Masses: Rod Taylor
Over 100 days have passed since (some) Quebec university students took to the streets to demand that their tuition fees (the lowest in Canada) be kept at their unsustainable levels. Quebec’s efforts to raise rates by $350 per year to achieve—after 5 years—the lowest rates in the country (?) have been viciously attacked by a collage of students, professors, strident unionists and would-be Marxists reliving the unfinished escapades of a deprived youth they never experienced.
Parents vs. militant teacher union
The Nanaimo Daily News – May 7, 2012
Letter: Parents rejecting public school and hostile union
Re: ‘Education should not be a commodity’ (Daily News, May 4)
McGuinty’s greed-infested Ontario rule is being exposed
St. Catharines Standard – November 10, 2010
McGuinty’s election train off the tracks
By Christina Blizzard
Politics is an extreme blood sport. When things are good, they’re great. Politicians walk on air. They exude that golden glow of success. They can do no wrong. When things are bad, it seems nothing can pull them out of the slump. And right now, things are going very badly for Premier Dalton McGuinty.
B.C. unions again declare war against provincial workers
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BC unions have ramped up their efforts to increase BC’s minimum wage to $10 an hour. Unfortunately, last week B.C. Labour Minister Murray Coell stated that the Liberal government would consider an increase to the provincial minimum wage. B.C. Federation of Labour head Jim Sinclair cheered the move. NDP leader Carole James, highlighting her pedestrian knowledge of economics, declared that an increase in the minimum wage is “actually an economic stimulus.” If Mr. Sinclair, Ms James, and BC unions are successful, their efforts will rob young and unskilled workers of the chance to participate in the labour market and gain the skills and experience they need to increase their incomes.
Unionist teachers hate competition from Charter Schools
Unionist teachers hate charter schools because the competition requires them to work hard and produce jobs in order to retain their jobs. And indolent, mediocrity loving unionist teachers hate the idea of working harder and working smarter. It is this anti-child agenda of mediocrity that the Democrat Establishment has embraced by pandering to his fat cat unionist buddies.
New ChrGov video commentary: Kindergarten child abuse
We have posted a new ChristianGovernance video commentary here. It is another commentary on the abusive nature of government schools.
A Globe and Mail report on American research shows what all loving parents who have not become slaves to “experts” already knew, which is that there are hundreds of thousands of misdiagnoses of ADHD every year. They observe that the youngest children are most likely to be misdiagnosed. This is a terrifying prospect in a province that has just introduced all-day kindergarten. It is naive in the extreme to think that your children are safe in government schools.
New Ontario guidelines let teachers give zero credit for zero work
National Post – August 28, 2010
Freedom to fail: New Ontario guidelines let teachers give zero credit for zero work. What a concept
By Marni Soupcoff
Thirty years ago, when I was a young kid, some Ontario public schools were still using “the strap” as a form of corporal punishment. Not my middle class elementary school in mid-town Toronto, mind you. But my friend’s rural elementary school in central Ontario — and I’m sure countless others where the idea of discipline still called to mind leaving the kids shaking in their boots.