Hamilton School Board chooses reconciliation over education.

 

No wonder!

Vincent J. Curtis

16 Oct 23

RE: Majority of public school students score below previous year on EQAO. By contrast most Catholic board pupils surpassed provincial average. By Kate McCullough 14 Oct 23.

RE: School Board commits to Truth and Reconciliation.  New strategic direction reflects broad input, education director says. By Richard Leitner 16 Oct 23.

You look at these two headlines, and you wonder why public school students in Hamilton are doing so poorly?  The Public Board has taken its eyes off the ball, and instead of improving educational outcomes, they’re chasing fashionable chimera of no benefit to the students they’re responsible for educating.  It’s reconciliation over education.

Of course the senior directors "stood up and applauded the unanimous acceptance" of the (echoes of the Soviet Union) Five Year Plan: it’s their plan!  They want “Growing Together:” precisely what aboriginals don’t want.  First Nations want to maintain a separate identity; they don’t want to be submerged in Canada.  They don’t want us to “grow together;” they want to remain separate and distinct.

The education planners hired no fewer than three consulting firms; and the only groups they didn’t consult with were aboriginal groups. There’s no report of an agreement to the effect that ‘if we do this, you be reconciled.’ And if there’s no agreement saying if ‘we do this, every aboriginal in Canada be reconciled to someone, something, somehow,’ then without such an agreement, why bother?

Why mess up student education with progressive nonsense if there’s no benefit somewhere to someone at the other end?

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