Open Letter to Education Minister Paul Calandra
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Hon. Paul Calandra
Minister of Education
1315 Front St. West, 14 Floor
Toronto, ON M7A 0B8
Dear Minister Calandra,
You recently introduced Bill 33, titled “Supporting Children and Students Act, 2025” which, if passed, expands your authority over school boards. You declared “politics should be kept out of the classroom”, and that you “share the concerns of Ontario parents and students”. These words are a slap in the face to the tens of thousands of parents whom your government has betrayed. Not only has your government pushed radical and political ideologies into the classrooms of Ontario, you ignored the parents’ voices in the process. Politics in the classroom seems to be your government’s modus operandi.
When your leader and boss, Premier Doug Ford, infamously flip-flopped on his promise to repeal the radical Wynne sex-ed curriculum, he doubled down on ideological indoctrination disguised as curriculum.
This curriculum pushes age-inappropriate sexual content, prioritizes radical gender theory over actual learning, and confuses and sexualizes children at younger and younger ages. It is reckless, unscientific, and deeply offensive to most Ontario families.
And yet, under your watch, Minister, it flourishes.
Under your government, gender ideology — the crown jewel of this political agenda, sees children indoctrinated with the idea that they can be born in the wrong body, that sex is "assigned" at birth, and that there are infinite genders. These are not neutral ideas. They are not facts. They are political and ideological talking points, and dangerous ones at that.
This isn’t just bad policy — it’s child endangerment dressed up as progress. And Ontario parents are furious.
You say you share the concerns of parents, yet under your watch, parents voices are being silenced. School boards across Canada have become hostile to democratic accountability, freedom of expression, and the constitutional right of parents to raise, educate, nurture and protect their own children.
School boards routinely block or limit public delegations. Parents are stonewalled when they try to raise concerns at school board meetings. If school board governance is a top concern, then why have you done nothing about this affront to parental rights and basic democracy? If you “share the concerns of Ontario parents”, then act like it. Prove it. Eliminate the harmful political agenda infecting Ontario classrooms. End the teaching of radical gender ideology, and remove age-inappropriate sexualized material from the curriculum. Give parents the transparency and authority they’re entitled to, and give children the childhood they deserve.
PAFE has always been open to meeting with the Minister of Education. That offer still stands. But let’s be clear: Ontario parents want action. They want their schools back and they want the political and ideological experiment on their children to stop. Sincerely,
Celine Traynor, Director of Communications Parents as First Educators (PAFE)
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I read this a couple of days ago on a Chinese business website:
Education /
In Depth: China’s preschoolers are stilling cramming for first grade
Despite the government’s repeated efforts to cut pupils’ academic workload, Yang Yang is still spending nearly all of his summer in class.
Every weekday, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:25 p.m., he studies reading, writing, math, crafts and physical education. Saturdays bring an extra English primer. He is six years old.
The Chinese, Koreans, and other Asian parents take education very seriously. Maybe too seriously but they realize that in our modern world, their children must do well in school. It is so competitive.
At the end of their school day, as they walked by my house, I would ask the middle school and high school students if they learnt anything at school today. Most often, they say no. At other times they say "a little". That scares me because I believe that they are telling the truth.
I ask if they have any homework. The answer is always no.
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