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Comment: The name of the game is privatization. “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.” — Noam Chomsky, The Progressive Magazine, September 1999, p.37

It is not true that private schools are “better” than public schools. Example: In 2000, in the Ontario provincial finals of the Math Olympiad for teams (Grade 7 and 8), two first places were taken by public schools (1st from Whitby, ON; second from Markham-Unionville, ON). They were competing against teams representing all participating boards of education (public and Catholic) and most private schools in the province. Principals of some of the largest and most famous private schools had a lot of explaining to do to the parents who had paid a lot of money to have their kids attend these schools. Then, the 1998 dumbing down education reforms, the standardized tests, and the private-public partnerships were implemented and the whole system was destroyed. Now, our children are being educated in equity and gender ideology. No wonder we see more and more incompetent employees entering the workforce and being promoted to managerial positions.

In Canada, schools don’t prioritize academic subjects anymore. They socialize children, while parental rights are being dissolved. The small private schools are even worse. Teaching by playing and having fun does not work.It does not install “the basics” and it does not promote understanding.

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