Choice advocacy in action - coming to a school community near you, and there’s not too much the naysayers can do about it.

The tide in Ontario is growing.

In the York District, the ones for cookie-cutter schools, woke up the sleeping giant of parents.

Parents from coast to coast should be watching if only to learn, that parents may come in all sizes and shapes, but together merging their skills and abilities, they become a power house, and a creative one at that.

School boards and ministries can no longer count to anticipate parents’ actions to the edicts of the BLOB, nor count on them to crawl under the rocks.

The video, should become a hit and I will do my bit, by asking my 16 year old to post it on her FB page, and I hope others follow suit, even though most of us do not live in the York region.

Spread the word, via through FB,

That tide is kinda slow coming. This is existing choice that the board wants to cut. The board is acting for the majority.

Maybe I’m out to lunch, but aren’t they supposed to be saying

“They took the trust right out of TRUSTEE”

not

“Trusty”

It sure doesn’t help when pleas for reform are peppered with mistakes.

...or maybe I didn’t get what this is about…

Good thing you’re not shaping the future of education in Ontario then.

So the trustees aren’t trusty?  Or is it that whole language that they are still teaching? 

When the general public looks at an elementary school like that the message they receive is

“We need a special school for our kids because our kids are special but yours are not.”

It strongly provokes the “who do you think you are?” response.

“We need a special school for our kids because our kids are special but yours are not.?
It strongly provokes the ?who do you think you are?? response.”

I shall assume with that type of attitude Doug, than the Special education kids, are very special and always are the first group to have their programs cut and/or watered down and/or restrictions placed on the programs.

With your elitist attitude Doug,, the LD kids who attend the Baythorn Arts programs, would have their blossom plucked off, so all of them are stunted and equal with the other kids in the regular public schools.

” All around the GTA and all around Canada an incredible thing is happening in education: options. Rather than expect every school to be all things to all types of learners, enlightened school boards are introducing specialty schools where children who have different learning styles and passions can have their educational needs met. The results have been astounding: fully engaged learners, an exodus from private schools back to public education, a re-purposing of underused schools, a new life in an often-troubled system.
Exciting, innovative, wonderful. Unless you are unlucky enough to live in York Region. Our school board is proposing a draconian measure to close the one existing elementary arts school (an award winning jewel in the board) and to forever ban all future elementary specialty schools. What?s more, we have good reason to believe that secondary schools are not far behind.”
http://yorkregionwantschoice.org/

“Options” are elitists method of getting their kids away from the so called riff raff.

Gifted, French Immersion and IB are all part of this process.

Oh sure Doug, I guess I was an elitist when I started to re-teach at home, How dare I to thing that my child had higher ability than the edicts of the so-called experts.

How dare I think, that my child was more than the riff-raff low achievers, no good kids who are always hard to teach.

It is has always been the elitist attitudes of the public education system that have been calling the shots, and the same type of attitudes found in any history books studying the Enlightenment Era.

I have to laugh at the reasoning. Because in one hand, you hold a private school, and in the other hand the worship of the public education kind. Perhaps you should inform your private students the thoughts of elitism you hold. Reminds me of a line in a movie I saw last night, “The only thing he worships, is the colour of green money.”. If the shoe fits, wear it.

“?Options? are elitists method of getting their kids away from the so called riff raff.

Gifted, French Immersion and IB are all part of this process.”

Annie Kidder, Bob Rae, Pierre Trudeau, Paul Martin, Stephen Lewis - all elists who had options the took them.

RHSA is a regular school focused on arts like Danforth Tech is for Tech. The Lewis clan sent one private and one to public alternative. The private one Avi cost them a lot of support.

It is an elitist POV no matter who does it. It smacks of “my kid is special but not yours.”

That is why most regular people reject is as a “snob” decision.

http://horacemannleague.blogspot.com/2012/02/reflections-on-half-century-of-school.html

Snobbery and elitist - a fine art that plays out in the halls of the stakeholders in the public education system.

A very fine art, of the public education system, calling all and everything elitist if it runs counter to the public education and its policies. The snobbery, is very prevalent in the public education system.

How can those within the education system, call it elitist, of students with handicaps go to an alternative school or the students who are sitting in the juvenile detention?  They do, because anything beyond the classroom, including SE services is considered elitist in some eyes within the education system. 

Beyond the public education classroom. and to which I am surprise of Doug’s link.

“Moreover, if we truly want to improve our schools sooner than later, then we must declare a good education to be a civil right for every child. .”

Choice is the only pathway, so parents and their children can insert their civil rights. There is another way, according to the civil rights literature, to define a basic education and what it all includes, framed around the civil rights of parents and students. One of the civil rights is choice, and parents human rights having the right to choose their children’s education.

So which is it Doug, or make up your mind?  Or are you actually coming around that choice is the way to go?

AQ good education is a civil right. Choice has nothing to do ith it. Read Paul’Bennet’s OECD report. Choice has NEGATIVE effects on equality.