Thank you Carolyn
By N. Invictus (an anonymous Canadian teacher)
What a delight to start the day with the victorious news of our Canadian heroine, Carolyn Burjoski. More information here: National Post on Carolyn B
If you are reading this, you are likely familiar with the story of Carolyn, a remarkable teacher who dared to express her concerns for the well-being of young children and paid the price for doing what every teacher, every board member, and anyone with any sense should have done! Instead of receiving applause for her straightforward and honest approach to dialogue, for her care and compassion for the most vulnerable students she had nurtured and empowered throughout her career, she was accused, labeled, canceled, censored, and subjected to various other forms of mistreatment by elected officials and school board members. What an insane world we live in!
Even though the news of Carolyn’s victory in court is more glorious than a great symphony to my ears, I know all too well, from personal experience, what these past 22 months have done to Carolyn. She transitioned from being a teacher who minded her own business and focused on her classroom to becoming a public figure, fighting for the rights that were once inherent in being Canadian—rights that were once compelling reasons for people to come to Canada! Now, these rights are reasons we must fight for, to regain them, to protect what’s left of them, and to take our country back, bringing some sanity back to the equation.
Carolyn’s quest began with her delegation to protect children and transformed into a battle to preserve everything this country once stood for. Putting everything she had on the line and experiencing the stress, tension, and all the other emotional turmoil associated with facing such tyrannical treatment, Carolyn held the line!
The recent court ruling resonates with hope and removes any excuse for any teacher who did not stand up to the lies and the abhorrent self-hate that is celebrated and encouraged in schools. No more excuses! Not that the excuses were justified to begin with! Any teacher who plays along to get along is as guilty as those who ostracize the brave and conscientious teachers with a moral compass, those who are able to discern between truth and the big lies.
Any teacher or administrator who remains silent is participating in a crime that the future generation will condemn them for. Yes, they may be long gone and dead by that time, and therefore they may not care! That is the problem with our schools – teachers and administrators who do not care about what really happens to children. They are there to go through the years and retire. How pathetic! Meanwhile, those few who care and dare to speak up face allegations, accusations, and investigations! Not anymore!
Teachers like Carolyn Burjoski, Chanel Pfahl, and Jim McMurtry and the late Richard Bilkszto are exemplars. Open your eyes, teachers! Look up to these heroes and stop sheepishly believing, adapting, following, and imposing all the top-down ideological policies on your students. You do not have to anymore, you never did! All it took was to say NO. And you don’t have the guts to even say that! How is it that you are in charge of raising the next generation to become critical thinkers? To understand and respect freedom, to speak up, to stand up, to distinguish between truth and lies. To say No!
Wake up and look around you at your school. What do you see? Not what you are supposed to see if our education had not gotten so screwed up because of your compliance!
Thank you Carolyn for holding the line!
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Thanks for reading. For more from this author, read No one Wins a war, we are never the same after
Also, for more evidence of the ideological indoctrination in Canadian education, read Yes, schools are indoctrinating kids! And also, Yes, The University is an Indoctrination Camp!
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A testament to the power of one and a beacon of hope to a society visually impaired by cognitive myopia. Thank you Carolyn for your brave and progressive actions.
I am most grateful to N. Invictus for mentioning me in the same breath as Carolyn and Chanel: “Teachers like Carolyn Burjoski, Chanel Pfahl, and Jim McMurtry are exemplars. Open your eyes, teachers! Look up to these heroes and stop sheepishly believing, adapting, following, and imposing all the top-down ideological policies on your students.”
From the beginning I saw teachers line up like elephants in a parade behind the dumbest fads, such as knocking down classroom walls (“open-classroom concept”) and throwing out spelling books. So many ideas that are top-down are indeed ideological and serve the careers of high-paid school leaders and seldom the interests of children. Woke equity/communism or D.I.E. may be the dumbest of all.
Chanel and I will likely never teach again, so I understand teachers who stay in the parade. But look what Carolyn has accomplished. With her precedent, she has given all teachers better protection against the woke mob.