jackdale,
Irrespective of how you felt about the curriculum and why, my comments did not imply let alone make explicit, that I thought you abused your position by defying the curriculum. And even if I had implied anything like that, which I didn't, the thread in question was anything but serious, so I fail to understand why you're taking any of this so seriously. (
The [Canadian teacher] doth protest too much, methinks) So, with all due respect, and I do respect you, jackdale, otherwise why argue with you, I'm done talking about how I've offended you through an attack I neither intended nor launched. I don't care if you're offended by my POV on education, though we can talk in private about how you'd prefer I approach this and related issues if and when I reply to any of your posts on these subjects.
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At that time one of the members of the legislature was pushing to get the curriculum changed to only provide for the teaching of free enterprise principles. The department and the minster would have nothing to do with it. I knew about this this because the memo crossed my desk.
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This is making an arbitrary premise our of fair and balanced, as necessitated by this obsession of forcing everyone's kids into one school system, then forcing people to pay for it in a way that deprives them of other, viable options.
Two cents: The only purpose I see for education is to teach children to think. All else, including actual self-esteem, ie, efficacy, stems from that. So long as we're stuck in this insane system of education, I'd rather see the system focus on that until the kids are at least in the 11 and 12th grades. That's more than enough of an assignment for any educator. The kids would then be able to make their own assessments as they deem necessary. They don't need to be limited by just two points of view which, btw, are premised about the same, and come nowhere near exhausting the options out there.
This isn't the case in most of the US. Apparently, it isn't the case in many Canadian school systems either. (US privates, most of which exemplify modern education methods, are even worse in this regard.)
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BTW - Have you read the program of studies for the Province of Alberta or even checked out a summary of it? Or are your passing judgement on it the same way you passed judgement on Obama's books.
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I don't need to read it. I take your descriptions of it as representative. It's the premises of the system, which seem to parallel the horrors down here, BTW, that I have a serious problem with. (It doesn't take much error on the premise level to lead to disaster. 99.99% right doesn't cut it on the foundations level.)
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Let me refresh your memory.
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Before you do that, please explain how me pointing to the fact that most people that voted for this man had no idea what he was about as per his books, proves what you seem determined to claim it proves.
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You were very quick to accept the nonsense that Mike posted.
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I was very quick to point to the simple fact most people didn't have, and maybe still don't have, and understanding of the fact that we've elected a Marxist who has told us he's a Marxist in any number of ways.
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My crap detector went off instantly.
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Then fix it.
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