Important Comment: I like Odessa, she seems to be a sincere and considerate person seeking objective truths and fair solutions in our complicated and chaotic reality. At the same time, I remember the famous quote from Noam Chomsky’s article in The Progressive Magazine, September 1999, p.37:
There is a campaign under way to essentially destroy the public education system along with every aspect of human life and attitudes and thought that involve social solidarity. It’s being done in all sorts of ways. One is simply by underfunding. So, if you can make the public schools really rotten, people will look for an alternative. Any service that’s going to be privatized, the first thing you do is make it malfunction so people can say, “We want to get rid of it. It’s not running. Let’s give it to Lockheed.”
This approach applies to education as well as to other publicly owned services, like health care, science. media, our supply chains, our shipping services, our natural resources, our army, our judiciary, our security and law enforcement institutions. It also visibly applies to political parties and governments at all levels. At first, it was called a public-private partnership but the money comes from the corporations, so it quickly became a complete take-over.
In 1990s, I worked as a teacher in a public school in Markham, Ontario. Our teams have repeatedly won reputable math competitions, including a second place in the Ontario Math Olympiad in 2000, where we competed against the best teams from public, Catholic, and private schools from across the province. First place was taken by another public school from Whitby, Ontario. Many principals of reputable and expensive private schools had a lot of explaining to do in front of disappointed and angry parents. The point I am trying to make is that public schools are not worse than private schools, if they are not being sabotaged by the system.
We cannot trust our medical services, or our food. We cannot trust our drinking water or the air we breathe (chemtrails, etc.) We cannot trust the increasingly dangerous electromagnetic fields (5G) that penetrate our bodies. We are called “conspiracy theorists”, if we raise these issues, but we no longer have sovereignty over what is being injected into our bodies – (remeber the outrageous coersion by our governments, our health care organizations, many employers, and the media?). Try to ask doctors, before your surgery, if the transfusion blood or a transplant you are about to receive are free of mRNA vaccines. Try to ask the manager at your local grocery store if all products made with GMO technologies are clearly marked to that effect. Ask if all artificial or bug meats are clearly marked. Ask if meats injected with mRNA vaccines are clearly marked, as they should be, given the risk of developing oral tolerance to dangerous patogens. Ask if the meats that were injected with antibiotics or anabolic steroids are clearly marked. In most cases the answer is “No, they are not marked”.
We are witnessing unprecedented and exponentially growing price gouging in the essential necessities sector, (especially food and housing). This trend is leading to the destruction of our standard of living and to impoverishment of large sections of society. It could be prevented by government policies and regulations but this is not happening. Governments don’t represent the voters and the taxpayers anymore. Corruption is rampant. (My opinion).
Moreover, we ourselves are contributing to this process of destruction of our civilization. Houses that in 1980s used to cost $200,000 are now selling for close to a million. Apartments that were available for $350 per month are now being rented to “new tenants” for $1600 to $4000 per month, depending on location. Many landlords increase rent at higher rate than the increase of actual cost of reasonable maintenance. Many perform unnecessary renovations and upgrades to the buildings, while neglecting to upgrade the actual apartments (rental units), in order to apply to the Landlord and Tenant Boards for permission to increase rent by procentages far exceeding the legislated inflation index rate. While landlords increase the value of their properties, tenants are being forced to pay for it, although it is not their property and they don’t profit from the upgrades. While the cost of renovations is limited to specific projects, rent will be higher indefinitely and permanently, instead of being allowed only for a limited time necessary to cover the cost of specific improvements in “common areas”. Housing has become a way to max up the profits of builders and landlords, instead of being an important tool in the area of public policy.
All of this is happening under our govenments’ watch. Corporations have taken over our country and our “elected” officials. Their first move (during the offshoring, outsourcing, and restructuring of our economy) was a demand to reduce government regulations. Monopolization and corruption followed. Competition ended. Consumer protection ended. Democracy ended.
The questions I am asking myself are:
- Is it really that bad or is it made to look bad as a result of underfunding, destructive policies, and malicious propaganda?
- What are the alternatives? Are they going to serve us better? Are we going to be able to afford privatized services?
- Is this happening as part of larger agendas, such as depopulation, demoralization, dumbing down, destruction of social solidarity, destruction of family, religion, human rights, and social justice?
- Who will benefit from such changes?
I have to admit that, during the 74 years of my life, privatization (on a corporate scale) of public services has always lowered their quality and accessibility. This includes education and health care – the two recently fashionable topics in the discussions promoted by our “free media”. If I were a King, I would try to fix the old system (that served us well for so long) instead of replacing it with a new one. Revolutions don’t serve the people well. They just replace one set of parasites with another. In nature, nothing disappears. Things just change the owners.
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Odessa has just replied with an interesting point of view:
32 minutes ago I read the article comment. Thank you Bielec. I too believe they are destroying everything on purpose (healthcare, food etc) but I hadn’t thought about it that way with schooling. My view was…they would like parents to get so pissed off that they take part in a civil war eventually. The war against each other (other Canadians) that is being propagated by the news with exaggerated propaganda like indigenous against whites, trans against lesbians and parents etc etc.. I have mixed feelings about the schooling as they are using the schooling to create great little marxists who encourage this new way of life. School has always been where they create a new generation of whatever the cabal wants them to believe. Also- for anyone to be able to afford pod schooling…each parent will have to suck it up and do one day a week or every 2 weeks (depending on the size of the pods) of teaching. It will have to be a community effort.
I agree, that too, but there are many different interests involved in this process. I had experienced these “reforms” on the inside and paid my price for trying to fight them.
My concern about home schooling is not only the lack of time, resources, and energy to do it well. Many parents are not educated enough, If you were a neurosurgeon, would you let parents to tell you how to operate on their child’s brain? Would you let them perform the surgery? In Ontario, this has began during the Bob Ray’s NDP government with the introduction of Parents’ Councils (that ended up selling cookies to raise petty cash). This was followed by a trend to have teachers teach all subjects by grade level, instead of teaching many grade levels by subject and their specialization (e.g., Math and Science). As a result, many teachers did not truly understand what they were forced to teach. This was the beginning: https://mydundasvalley.com/new-world-order-and-education/ .
Then came the mixed classes and differentiated model of instruction. Today, this cancer has grown and metastasized to areas that previously we would not consider possible.
I will give you another example. Five years ago, I had a heart attack and a quadruple bypass surgery. If I had to pay for it in a private setting, I would not be able to afford it and I would not be writing this today. Publicly owned services have saved my life.
Anyway, thank you for focusing public attention on this topic. It is important.
My Dundas Valley 