As long as the public system fails to accommodate real diversity of faith and culture – especially traditionally-minded people from Canada and abroad – families will choose other educational options for their children.
That is, unless political elites take away any educational choice – which is really what this column is hinting at, isn’t it? Continue reading
[The following is an excerpt from an opinion piece by a long-time activist for parental rights in the educational system.]
(By Tunya Audain 100326, comment to blog Report Card by Janet Steffenhagen Vancouver Sun Education Reporter on: “Provincial parent group not in trouble, president says” 100324)
Why do parents have to beg for recognition from their school systems?
I’ve attended parent advisory meetings which spent most of the time on fund-raising matters. Current “advisory” councils differ little from the PTA meetings of old where the groups were the lapdogs of the teacher unions and the administration. Continue reading
PALO ALTO, Calif. – These days, it’s rare to find someone in the academic world who openly embraces ideas that run counter to the progressive agenda.
But Terry Moe – William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and member of Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K-12 Education – has spent the majority of his career researching teachers unions and documenting their adverse effect on public education. Continue reading
In the wake of press publicity regarding Pacific Academy, opposition from the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation and the B.C. School Trustees’ Association has come to the fore. Continue reading
18 May 2013
“. . .I have read of a tribe in New Holland, which has no word to signify God, but has one to designate a process by which an unborn child may be destroyed in the bosom of its mother.”
Richard Chennivix Trench, On the Study of Words, “Introductory Lecture” pp. 17 & 18
by Joe Carter, May 16, 2013
[See also LifeSiteNews: "BREAKING: Kermit Gosnell convicted on 3 of 4 counts of murdering babies, killing 41-year-old woman"]
Philadelphia (CNN) — A jury Monday found a Philadelphia abortion provider guilty of three counts of first-degree murder. Continue reading
