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Comment: If this is true, then I don’t know how it became a wide-spread reality in such a short period of time. In Ontario (Canada), this process began in 1990s. First, Bob Ray’s (NDP) Minister of Education, Dave Cooke, introduced Parents’ Councils in schools around the province. In theory, parents were empowered to supervise the programs and control the teachers. A joke was born, “Soon parents, in exchange for NDP votes, will be given power to tell neurosurgeons how to operate on their children’s brains.” In most schools, parents were smarter than the minister. In practice, Parents’ Councils ended up selling donuts to raise cash money for schools, after their budgets were reduced by the Ministry.
Then came the Conservative government of Mike Harris and his ministers of education. John Snobelen, a high school dropout and owner of a waste-haulage business, initiated the infamous reforms of education that began in 1998, just one year after all elementary and secondary teachers in Ontario went on strike protesting against these upcoming changes. The government succeeded in having some parents publicly support the Minister. Temporary inconvenience of arranging baby sitting was more important than quality of education and future of their children. Initial changes led to a deliberate destruction of academic education. Focus and mission of schools drifted from academic excellence to ideological indoctrination and socialization. Learning drifted from understanding to memorizing. This was the beginning. Later, schools adopted gender ideology and sex-related programs that 15 years earlier would have triggered legal action by police, Childrens’ Aid Society, and courts, as well as disciplinary action by school administration.
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