Will same the same thing here as Educhatter.  We need Research Ed to come to Canada…sooner rather than later http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1344967-do-canadas-schools-need-a-quiet-revolution/

Public Education Leviathans Imploding

“It is the business of education in our social democracy to eliminate the influence of parents on the life-chances of the young. - F. Musgrove, The Family, Education and Society, 1966.

Imagine an education conference invitation, which had the above quote. The conference — Family Choice, Schooling and the Public Interest, May 7-9, 1980 was held at Simon Fraser University, BC. I suspect the conference was not any genuine effort to advance the cause of family choice.  I suspect it was — more like a wartime reconnaissance mission — to gather intelligence about the nature of the threat of the movement for choice — AND how to avert and conquer it.

At the moment we are discussing the yeasty atmosphere related to public education — here —and globally.  Serious critiques are being mounted not only by policy people but also by actual front-line teachers who dare to question (disrupt) the prevailing doctrines and actually write books and stage quick little conferences (researchED) to emphasize evidence as the byword replacing belief systems.

We have innovative funding approaches called Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) being tried in the US wherein parents get 90% of the education allotment placed into a bank account from which they draw — upon locating the services and products and schools they deem best for their children.

Even as bloated school systems continue to have their apologists who try to maintain the “mirage” of current schooling models (Mildon, Fournier) we also have parents on the front lines clamoring for reforms that recognize the need to maintain basic skills (eg – Math petitions).  The media is sensing good stories and is doing their homework besides parroting the official establishment line.

For too long — over 150 years — parents have been treated as colonial peoples to be cajoled and hoodwinked into compliance with centralized government monopoly education systems (Parents and Schools: The 150-Year Struggle, Cutler).

Well, now we are seeing parents asserting their biological imperative as never before.  The natives are restless.  More parents are questioning the 21st Century mantras that are being ground out by central offices.  Parents are tired of paying private tutors for lessons untaught.  They are showing more interest in ESAs, in basic skills taught for their tax dollars, in home eduation.

They are daring to ask:  Do we still need schools?  See this latest book:  International Perspectives on Home Education:  Do We Still Need Schools? Rothermel, 2015 http://www.amazon.com/International-Perspectives-Home-Education-Schools/dp/1137446846/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1436465877&sr=8-1&keywords=Rothermel+International+perspectives&pebp=1436465900525&perid=1XMZJSVRPGKC5F6D8AS6

Yup and as soon as you post your material a certain union militant who got expelled from SQE… now uses Educhatter to vent his spleen abt anything we say. Your good people here.