Public Education Fire Sale (or: Paging The Zalm)
September 13, 2006 · By Peter Rempel
The National Post on the leasing of British Columbia’s education system to homosexual interests:
British Columbia’s Minister of Education has made an agreement with two gay rights activists, Peter Corren and Murray Corren, assigning them a privileged role in developing public education policy and curriculum for B.C.’s schools. This is a bad decision on several counts.
The editorial makes several good points. In the long term, this decision will push more parents toward enrolling their children in private (particularly religious) schools. Such schools are, after all, free from the grip of B.C.’s maniacal teachers’ unions and therefore are infinitely superior to their public counterparts.
The Liberal Party of B.C. has, since the 2001 election, been a particularly effective coalition of anti-NDP interests which includes urban social progressives and (somewhat) rural social conservatives. But that balance has always been precarious, and in this case the government has gone completely over the edge. If Campbell, someone whom I have alot of respect for, thinks that social conservatives in the province’s interior and Fraser Valley are going to tolerate this latest sop to homosexual interests, he’s sadly mistaken.
Where’s Bill Vander Zalm when you need him?
NP comes to the issue a bit late. What’s interesting is that several Chinese-Canadian groups have been at the forefront protesting this arrangement.
Oops, I thought I could later add the links.
Here’s some recent coverage:
http://www.thepolitic.com/arch.....-interest/
BC Social Justice:
http://bcsocialjustice.com/e_Index.html
Concerned Parents of BC:
http://www.concernedparentsbc.org/
Fire sale is right!
But public schools embraced the nonsense that inheres in teaching “self-esteem” and “tolerance” a long time ago, this being a logical step from that.
Much of what passes for education serves only to stupify pupils into the dark recesses of unthinkingness, where dreams grow dimmer and imagination darker and narrower. You can’t teach self-esteem and tolerance without providing some transcendent meassure of human dignity, and no such moral compass exists anymore in public schools.