Spot on! I have a child at John G Althouse middle school in Toronto. This school is totally plagued with violence right now and the school is doing little to nothing about it. Next week they will be doing something called “MovementX”. What is that? Very good question. It’s a DEI educational course that uses “movement-based” teaching techniques. How do I know this? I had to call the private company that runs the program to ask them what they do. I also asked them “by what metric do you measure your success?” He said, student and staff feedback. How is that a metric of anything substantive? To make matters worse, the school is asking parents to “donate” $10 each to support this week long exercise. This is a crazy expenditure at a school that is already extremely diverse; that is going through some ongoing violence; and can’t even afford to send kids on field trips or even provide the necessary laptops for actual school work.
Using fundamentalist religious or political ideology to make decisions about policy, rather than reason, is bound to cause problems. Charles Pincourt is correct when he says "crossover words" like "systemic racism" and "historically marginalized communities" are used to justify and rationalize school policy. Individual responsibility and agency are nullified if a person belongs to a "historically marginalized" group. The concepts behind "crossover words" are thought to be a priori true, any student or parent questioning the dogma will be faced with ad hominem responses and circular reasoning. Accountability is not a factor for people who believe they are in possession of the truth.
School boards are best at giving top managers huge salaries. They are at their worst in making sound educational decisions, or in dealing with violent students as that could bring them negative feedback which they can’t duck from.
Brilliant take on the disasterous effects of woke doublespeak! Tried and true solution: divide and conquer. There are hardened neo Marxist ideologues behind much of this, but most woke educators are just going along with the crowd and are redeemable. I think we underestimate the brainwashing that happened online in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020 while most of us were isolated at home and afraid as covid was a new threat. It was really a perfect storm for online radicalization. The woke are basically jihadis. How to break the spell? Get (so called) parents of color on board. Many are survivors of failed socialist experiments. Remind people that we need each other and give them a way out of this mind game. We just had a brutal snowstorm where I live, and I know that everyone appreciated all the hard work of the (mostly conservative) linemen restoring our power just as they appreciated the food and support that (mostly woke) administrators and teachers provided in the schools that were opened as warming centers. We have to separate the true believers from the vast majority who may just be naive and idealistic. Give them something to unite *for* and they'll come around.
The Toronto school boards are lost. The amount of time, effort and money they spend on woke trash is unacceptable. Ford should place them under trusteeship.
You hit this one right on the head, unreal as well that parents are willing to pay for police services and were shot down, what is wrong with these school boards.
All of this is taking place under the regime of the current minister, Stephen Lecce who must believe that violence in schools is acceptable in order to avoid contradicting the current message and hurting the feelings of a shrill minority of parents. The problem we are facing in schools has nothing to do with race. It's about culture, and a culture of victimization and grievance at that. Parents with violent and unruly children expect that the behaviour is tolerated without consequence because of society's perceived ills. They feel no responsibility for the fact that their child comes from a lone-parent home or that their parenting is inadequate.
I would hate to be a teacher these days. It must be like working in East Germany during the communist regime.
The picture you paint is one of Woke policy makers and enforcers who live inside a delusional fantasy world in which the narrative consistently trumps facts-on-the ground of which they are perpetually in denial of.
It would appear that the only way left to deal with this is to bust them. There isn't going to be debate leading to negotiation anymore. The characters in charge are no longer able to debate their position, even if they were up for it, which they aren't, because if they were, they would have to confront objective evidence that would destroy them.
I loved the subcontinent Indian-Englishman, who so redolantly represented British Indian postcolonial understandings of just how much British ex colonies owe to their once imperial master, and how much they political-culturally do not owe to their precolonial roots.
The Brahmin Indian ruling class had no problems about cleaving to what the British offered their culture, because they were sufficiently sophisticated to 'get' the benefits the British brought with them.....which they were able to take over seamlessly when it was time for their old master to go.
The analogue of that is that the much less sophisticated tribal indigenous populations just weren't up to the integration exercise into modern understandings and practices. Thus, they have been left floundering on the margins, and then colonized by mostly white institutional parasites for political purposes that have no bearing at all on what actually happens on the ground, particularly inside already isolated, insular and culturally defeated communities, whose miserable fate they seal into ideological stone
Our British Indian friend's analysis of slavery was a brilliantly executed and a devastating riposte to the current Woke slave trope. It sucked out all its ideological oxygen and it crumpled in front of us.
Spot on! I have a child at John G Althouse middle school in Toronto. This school is totally plagued with violence right now and the school is doing little to nothing about it. Next week they will be doing something called “MovementX”. What is that? Very good question. It’s a DEI educational course that uses “movement-based” teaching techniques. How do I know this? I had to call the private company that runs the program to ask them what they do. I also asked them “by what metric do you measure your success?” He said, student and staff feedback. How is that a metric of anything substantive? To make matters worse, the school is asking parents to “donate” $10 each to support this week long exercise. This is a crazy expenditure at a school that is already extremely diverse; that is going through some ongoing violence; and can’t even afford to send kids on field trips or even provide the necessary laptops for actual school work.
Using fundamentalist religious or political ideology to make decisions about policy, rather than reason, is bound to cause problems. Charles Pincourt is correct when he says "crossover words" like "systemic racism" and "historically marginalized communities" are used to justify and rationalize school policy. Individual responsibility and agency are nullified if a person belongs to a "historically marginalized" group. The concepts behind "crossover words" are thought to be a priori true, any student or parent questioning the dogma will be faced with ad hominem responses and circular reasoning. Accountability is not a factor for people who believe they are in possession of the truth.
School boards are best at giving top managers huge salaries. They are at their worst in making sound educational decisions, or in dealing with violent students as that could bring them negative feedback which they can’t duck from.
The school boards are not working right so I will use that wonderful catchphrase in use by all the woke idiots "defund the school boards"
Brilliant take on the disasterous effects of woke doublespeak! Tried and true solution: divide and conquer. There are hardened neo Marxist ideologues behind much of this, but most woke educators are just going along with the crowd and are redeemable. I think we underestimate the brainwashing that happened online in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020 while most of us were isolated at home and afraid as covid was a new threat. It was really a perfect storm for online radicalization. The woke are basically jihadis. How to break the spell? Get (so called) parents of color on board. Many are survivors of failed socialist experiments. Remind people that we need each other and give them a way out of this mind game. We just had a brutal snowstorm where I live, and I know that everyone appreciated all the hard work of the (mostly conservative) linemen restoring our power just as they appreciated the food and support that (mostly woke) administrators and teachers provided in the schools that were opened as warming centers. We have to separate the true believers from the vast majority who may just be naive and idealistic. Give them something to unite *for* and they'll come around.
The Toronto school boards are lost. The amount of time, effort and money they spend on woke trash is unacceptable. Ford should place them under trusteeship.
You hit this one right on the head, unreal as well that parents are willing to pay for police services and were shot down, what is wrong with these school boards.
All of this is taking place under the regime of the current minister, Stephen Lecce who must believe that violence in schools is acceptable in order to avoid contradicting the current message and hurting the feelings of a shrill minority of parents. The problem we are facing in schools has nothing to do with race. It's about culture, and a culture of victimization and grievance at that. Parents with violent and unruly children expect that the behaviour is tolerated without consequence because of society's perceived ills. They feel no responsibility for the fact that their child comes from a lone-parent home or that their parenting is inadequate.
I would hate to be a teacher these days. It must be like working in East Germany during the communist regime.
The picture you paint is one of Woke policy makers and enforcers who live inside a delusional fantasy world in which the narrative consistently trumps facts-on-the ground of which they are perpetually in denial of.
It would appear that the only way left to deal with this is to bust them. There isn't going to be debate leading to negotiation anymore. The characters in charge are no longer able to debate their position, even if they were up for it, which they aren't, because if they were, they would have to confront objective evidence that would destroy them.
I loved the subcontinent Indian-Englishman, who so redolantly represented British Indian postcolonial understandings of just how much British ex colonies owe to their once imperial master, and how much they political-culturally do not owe to their precolonial roots.
The Brahmin Indian ruling class had no problems about cleaving to what the British offered their culture, because they were sufficiently sophisticated to 'get' the benefits the British brought with them.....which they were able to take over seamlessly when it was time for their old master to go.
The analogue of that is that the much less sophisticated tribal indigenous populations just weren't up to the integration exercise into modern understandings and practices. Thus, they have been left floundering on the margins, and then colonized by mostly white institutional parasites for political purposes that have no bearing at all on what actually happens on the ground, particularly inside already isolated, insular and culturally defeated communities, whose miserable fate they seal into ideological stone
Our British Indian friend's analysis of slavery was a brilliantly executed and a devastating riposte to the current Woke slave trope. It sucked out all its ideological oxygen and it crumpled in front of us.
Thanks for all that.