It's Elementary: Teachers Disgrace Themselves

Vincent J. Curtis

27 Aug 2017

RE:  Ottawa pressured to examine how historical figures are celebrated.

Canada is not immune to the destroy-the-statues mania that has gripped the United States.  Last week, the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario voted to have the name of Sir John A. Macdonald removed from schools in Ontario.

This is what forty years of revisionist history gets you: a collection of ignoramuses who don’t understand why Sir John A. Macdonald would be memorialized in Canada.

A sign of emotional maturity is the ability to make complex moral judgements, to be able the weigh the bad with the good and arrive at a reasonable conclusion.

Thus we get this wave of demands to pull down the memorials to those who built this country.  These demands come from emotional children who fail to weigh the bad with the good, and who are not even aware of the good because of a defective education.  These people cannot even look at the country around them and wonder how all the good around them got started.

The Elementary School Teachers Federation proved themselves to be both emotional children and defective in their knowledge of history, which raises the question of why these people are allowed in front of classrooms of impressionable children.  What are they teaching them?  And you wonder why there is a need for competition in the education sphere.

And for all the evils visited upon the Indigenous by wicked Europeans, the fact remains that Canadian Indigenous are much more numerous, far better off, and infinitely more educated than they were in 1880.

It is a waste of time trying to reason with children who know nothing.  The adults in this country need to remain firm in the face of this coming wave of emotional outburst.

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**UPDATE 31 AUG 2017**  Math Test Scores called 'disappointing'  From CP  "Math test scores among public elementary school students have not improved  - in some cases they have decreased slightly - despite a $60-million 'renewed math strategy' the [Ontario] government had hoped would solve the problem."     Just in case you thought my use of the word 'ignoramuses' was a little harsh.