Juno News - Something is broken in Ontario’s schools

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

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

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.

Juno News - November 06, 2022