The Nasty Business of Deletion
Our past, our present, our parents, our children’s potential future!
By N. Invictus (an anonymous Canadian teacher)
One year has passed.
Queen Elizabeth the Second passed away on September 8, 2022. I was at school when the students who entered my class gave me the news, which they had become aware of through their cell phones. Even though her passing was not surprising, it still had that shocking effect that one would feel if one senses the stability of one’s surroundings has been threatened. She held the longest verified reign of any female head of state in history, the longest reign of any British monarch, and most importantly, she was our head of state and commander in chief. Her passing was a historical event in its own sad way. Her Majesty had been a part of many people's and nations' lives and history, making it always seem impossible to imagine a world without her as the Queen of England.
The world reacted; if not all, at least the majority of the media outlets announced the news of Her late Majesty’s passing. Even the Indigenous people of Canada reacted to it, of course with mixed feelings, but that is not the point. I went to school the next day, Friday, with the expectation that I would hear an announcement from the administrators in the morning about this news. I listened attentively. Nothing. Not a word. I could not believe that this was happening. As usual, I wrote an email to my administrator, providing them with some information, background, and rationale, and asking them to acknowledge this event. I believe it is the students’ right to learn about their country and the important events at school. If not, then what are schools for? ( I am not naive and of course I know better, but I am still hopeful!) The response I received was that the school is awaiting direction from the school board. Not a convincing one, and definitely one that had a nasty smell.
Some other teachers also voiced their concern about this evidently deliberate silence. The school appeared to be disregarding the significance of the Queen's passing, effectively undermining our system of government. The very systems and institutions that owe their existence to the Education Act, which would not have come into being without the Royal assent, now seemed to feel entitled to omit this news. How abhorrent! I reached out to fellow teachers in other schools and school boards, and found that the approach was the same and some worse. Some administrators berated the teachers who expressed their concerns and emphasized their duty of teaching history and civics. They went so far as to label them as white supremacists—a typical, pathetic, narrow-minded label often bestowed on anyone who disagrees with the dominant narrative!
In September of 2022, the school boards across Ontario, and probably in some other provinces, decided to cancel the Queen by pretending that her passing did not happen. They chose to remain silent and not teach the students about their country and its system of government. These school boards, whose existence depended on the Education Act that had received Royal assent, saw fit to ignore this historic event that was being talked about and broadcasted almost everywhere! This was an act that one might expect and accept from an immature and insecure child. That is, until news leaked through the media about the school board that had directed their staff to remain silent and to minimize the impact of this event.
This led to the Ministry of Education publicly directing the school boards to acknowledge the event.
It is important to note that, according to the communication I received from my MPP, the Minister of Education had already directed and given instructions to the Ontario school boards earlier. Yet, the school boards remained silent. Once they received the directive, they delayed their response as long as they could, until there was no time left for any ceremony worthy of Her Late Majesty.
This situation highlights the pervasive influence of cancel culture in our society and within our institutions. This divisive practice of cancellation began by blaming and shaming our past. Despite the fact that the country we are fortunate to call home is the result of that very same past, such an approach is, at minimum, ungrateful. It is so easy to point fingers to the mistakes, shortcomings, wrongdoings, and even atrocities of the past while remaining blind to the similar actions in the present. The point of life is not to take the easy route and claim the moral high ground, but to endure hardships and earn the moral virtues rightfully. However, this gradual and invasive cancellation business took an even more extreme step by morphing into deletion. The most egregious manifestation of this shift was our government's decision to erase our history and our heroes from our passports.
One year has passed. After attempts to shame, cancel, and erase our history, our founding fathers, our heroes, our Head of State, our heritage, our books, our culture and our religions, the spotlight has now turned towards parents, our family values, our way of life, and our upbringing.
School board meetings over the past couple of years have resembled battlefields. Any opposition to policies that were clearly politically leaning towards the far left was swiftly shut down, silenced, or labeled. School board policies even direct their staff to withhold information from parents, regardless of the student's age. It has gone so far as the Prime Minister interfering in provincial matters and calling Muslim parents right-wing (paraphrasing)! Finally, after over a decade of silence, parents have awakened and are steadfast in their refusal to be erased, to be deleted. This is a welcome, much-needed, and commendable endeavor. There is no reversing course on this, I fervently hope, as our future and the future of our children hinge on it. Let there be no mistake, erasing parents equates to erasing children, and that would signal the end of this great nation. We are knee deep, no neck deep in this mess, in this war, in the destructive fire that has swept across our homeland.
It is almost difficult to breathe! And the smoke is burning our eyes! The only thing that is left is our will and duty to say NO. And all it really takes for this madness to stop is for people to say NO. The reality is that no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Years and years of our silence, ignorance, oblivion, naivety, and blind trust paved the path for the superiority of pervasive, invasive, and toxic ideologies. While this may sound accusatory, the good news is that we are ultimately in charge and have the power to reverse this dreadful, dooming path of destruction. This change has begun with the silent majority, who are now singing the serenade of reason loud and clear from coast to coast, so that the sound of freedom will eventually echo across our nation where only the Canadian flag takes wing.
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Perhaps older folks such as me can see the rot spreading faster than the younger ones which is why my wife and I started to teach our own grandchildren simple math and reading and writing skills at a very early age, we at least noticed the absolutely terrible teaching habits resulting in our little ones learning virtually no life skills. Today they are well on their way to success as mature adults with very little thanks to the educational system.
The truth will set you free is something I have always strongly believed in and I believe the saying I once was blind but now I see. Perhaps one day the woke and nasty LGB2Q alphabet variety that spew garbage will learn that.
I should note that my wife and I are not educators in that we have degrees in fact I only managed a grade 9 as I had to leave school to work, my wife managed grade 13 however we have both read every book that our schools have banned recently and continue to be avid readers of historical fact and decent literature, even in our 70,s we have inquiring minds and a thirst for truth.
“After attempts to shame, cancel, and erase our history, our founding fathers, our heroes, our Head of State, our heritage, our books, our culture and our religions, the spotlight has now turned towards parents, our family values, our way of life, and our upbringing.”
We saw that at the protests Wednesday over gender and sex indoctrination in schools. There is also an assault on New Canadians. The small woke minority that runs our institutions needs to be run out of power.