Race is an invented concept. Years ago, a 15 year old acquaintance of mine stated he was a black man. He had pale skin and red hair. I asked him "how can this be?" and he told me his grandfather was black. In fact, his grandfather was Harry Jerome, the famous runner, so in fact my acquaintance was, in part, a black man. The School Board's reframing of "black person" to mean a victim of societal oppression who requires special treatment is so simplistic and divisive, and above all absurd. Was my friend only one quarter oppressed? And the white part was oppressing the black fraction? People from Africa, specifically Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, etc. do much better in school than people from certain Caribbean countries because their cultures value education. Why do Asians, who, on average, have had a very hard time in Canada - witness the Japanese internment, for example - do very well in school? Japanese Canadians had their property confiscated to pay for their internment and they were singled out for this internment based on their race. Yet today they are among the most successful ethnic groups. School Boards should be looking at why students succeed, not why they fail, and change their polices positively, based on people's strengths, not their weaknesses.
The Woke will blame everything and anything that is deficient in the school system on someone or something other than their own miserable governance and the long track record of it that compounds intergenerationally.
At some point, when things have become so seriously chaotic that communities start to desert the school system in favor of self-help, change will occur, but it will be an iron fisted gig to get some order and effective discipline out of institutions raddled by indulgence, ideological mystification and lack of accountable adult responsible agency.
It may be the case that the school system is already beyond normal and moderate repair.
The following is a vision of what a post-modern system of governance might look like, as we disaggregate into capitalism lite....
The preoccupation with race leads us nowhere other than civil division, strife, resentment. Many students are biracial or multiracial. The focus should be on raising the academic bar, on developing the finest students we can for the benefit of society and the students themselves. Race hustling is mass distraction. It lowers standards for so-called victim groups. It creates an unfair playing field for high achievers of Asian and white stock. Igor’s articles should be read by millions of people.
It's not about race; it's about culture. Canadian black students with at least one parent from Africa tend to achieve significantly better academically than Canadian black students with a Caribbean parent.
Race is an invented concept. Years ago, a 15 year old acquaintance of mine stated he was a black man. He had pale skin and red hair. I asked him "how can this be?" and he told me his grandfather was black. In fact, his grandfather was Harry Jerome, the famous runner, so in fact my acquaintance was, in part, a black man. The School Board's reframing of "black person" to mean a victim of societal oppression who requires special treatment is so simplistic and divisive, and above all absurd. Was my friend only one quarter oppressed? And the white part was oppressing the black fraction? People from Africa, specifically Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, etc. do much better in school than people from certain Caribbean countries because their cultures value education. Why do Asians, who, on average, have had a very hard time in Canada - witness the Japanese internment, for example - do very well in school? Japanese Canadians had their property confiscated to pay for their internment and they were singled out for this internment based on their race. Yet today they are among the most successful ethnic groups. School Boards should be looking at why students succeed, not why they fail, and change their polices positively, based on people's strengths, not their weaknesses.
The Woke will blame everything and anything that is deficient in the school system on someone or something other than their own miserable governance and the long track record of it that compounds intergenerationally.
At some point, when things have become so seriously chaotic that communities start to desert the school system in favor of self-help, change will occur, but it will be an iron fisted gig to get some order and effective discipline out of institutions raddled by indulgence, ideological mystification and lack of accountable adult responsible agency.
It may be the case that the school system is already beyond normal and moderate repair.
The following is a vision of what a post-modern system of governance might look like, as we disaggregate into capitalism lite....
https://www.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/866724
The preoccupation with race leads us nowhere other than civil division, strife, resentment. Many students are biracial or multiracial. The focus should be on raising the academic bar, on developing the finest students we can for the benefit of society and the students themselves. Race hustling is mass distraction. It lowers standards for so-called victim groups. It creates an unfair playing field for high achievers of Asian and white stock. Igor’s articles should be read by millions of people.
It's not about race; it's about culture. Canadian black students with at least one parent from Africa tend to achieve significantly better academically than Canadian black students with a Caribbean parent.
Toronto school boards have to be among the wokest radical loons in existence.
And the violence on public transit in TO is reaching panic levels.
When will TO voters wake (in the real sense of the word) up?