Juno News - November 06, 2022


Something is broken in Ontario’s schools

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In this episode, I talk about the growing number of anti-woke candidates running for public school board seats across Canada, the TDSB shut down schools, the Edmonton Public School Board, and the Toronto District School Board shut down their schools because of strike action by education workers who are not teachers.

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00:00:00.000 There's so much going on with the public education system in Canada right now, so many stories about
00:00:04.900 it in the news that really suggest it's going through something of an identity crisis and
00:00:09.060 perhaps into something of a downward spiral. It was just a couple weeks ago that we were talking
00:00:13.640 about how all across Canada there are a lot of school board races where there are anti-woke
00:00:18.680 candidates stepping forward, for lack of a better term, parents who have a lot of concerns about the
00:00:23.560 increasing politicization going on in the school system. They don't like a lot of the SJW newfangled
00:00:30.480 progressive ideologies that are being forced on kids, and you have parents from all walks of life,
00:00:35.380 activists, newfound activists, who are saying, no, we want to run for school board trustee to overturn
00:00:40.500 this sort of stuff. It happened in British Columbia. It's happened throughout parts of Ontario, and we
00:00:44.880 were talking about our parents getting in the game more now. We saw that happen recently in the United
00:00:49.720 States. Well, okay, since that happened, there's been a couple other big stories. Right now in Ontario,
00:00:54.780 a lot of schools are closed because there's a strike action by education assistants, educational
00:01:00.580 workers who are not teachers. And this is quite something, because what's really going on is that
00:01:05.840 they're asking for a raise, and they're not getting the exact amount they want, so they decide to shut
00:01:11.120 down schools, making this the fourth consecutive year in a row where there's been learning disruption,
00:01:16.520 despite all of these studies about how learning disruption is really setting kids backwards. I
00:01:21.800 mean, this is quite remarkable. You don't have this with private sector unions, and you don't have it
00:01:25.840 with all public sector unions, where if they don't get exactly what they want, they can shut down an
00:01:31.040 entire school system. Something is really broken here, and speaking of something being broken,
00:01:36.080 let's talk about the TDSB student census. They sent this out on November 1st, this wild student
00:01:42.960 census that was going to high school students, but also to elementary school kids, talking to them
00:01:48.240 about obscenely sexualized things, and talking to them about a lot of race-based issues, where they 0.69
00:01:53.480 were asking them questions such as, are you familiar with tucking, an experience where male genitalia can
00:02:00.560 be pushed away, or pushed back up into the body cavity, something that is common in transgender 1.00
00:02:07.400 circles. Why on earth are we asking children, because these questions were for elementary kids as well,
00:02:12.220 why are we asking children about these questions? This is just bizarre that we're doing this under
00:02:18.500 the rubric of the school system. TDSB has actually shelved that after saying that the material was not
00:02:24.000 properly reviewed. I think we're going to learn more. True North will keep on it, do investigations,
00:02:28.540 do the FOIs on it. I'm told Edmonton School Board doing something very similar. So you look around and you
00:02:34.000 go, wow, all these stories about stuff that's just not normal, just not right, and school boards
00:02:40.300 suggesting there's dysfunctional things happening. It's quite a trend, and I wish I could say the
00:02:46.040 trend's going to wrap up and be done and go in a good direction, but I don't think so. It's a troubling
00:02:50.920 trend that seems to be continuing.