Ontario's Elementary School Teachers Union wants more children to be like the "genderless baby"

Don't you feel lucky to be living in Ontario, where the radical Elementary Teachers Federation published an article by the father of the notorious "genderless baby" advocating for more of the same in public schools?

"I work at City View Alternative Senior School in Toronto’s west end, a grade 7 and 8 school where the provincial curriculum is taught through the lens of social justice. Race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, power, and oppression are all integrated as the content material in many of the classes, along with an emphasis on activism and the need to do something to change the world rather than simply discuss it.

So it’s probably not surprising that one or more of our students began mucking with the signs on our washroom doors. A sketch of a pair of pants was taped on top of the skirt. A slip of paper that read “Not all girls wear dresses” appeared. And on the boys’ door: “Some boys wear skirts.”  "

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Kathleen Wynne's $500 Million payoff to the teachers' unions

TORONTO - Premier Kathleen Wynne may have spent more than $500 million this past spring to buy labour peace with Ontario’s teachers’ unions, the Toronto Sun has learned. 

According to figures provided to the Sun by an education sector source, Wynne’s new deal with the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) this past April bumped up costs by at least $114 million.

The contract she signed in June with the 76,000 members of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) added another $112 million...

h/t Marvin W.

The Worst Union in America

In 1962, as tensions ran high between school districts and unions across the country, members of the National Education Association gathered in Denver for the organization’s 100th annual convention. Among the speakers was Arthur F. Corey, executive director of the California Teachers Association (CTA). “The strike as a weapon for teachers is inappropriate, unprofessional, illegal, outmoded, and ineffective,” Corey told the crowd. “You can’t go out on an illegal strike one day and expect to go back to your classroom and teach good citizenship the next.”



Fast-forward nearly 50 years to May 2011, when the CTA—now the single most powerful special interest in California—organized a “State of Emergency” week to agitate for higher taxes in one of the most overtaxed states in the nation. A CTA document suggested dozens of ways for teachers to protest, including following state legislators incessantly, attempting to close major transportation arteries, and boycotting companies, such as Microsoft, that backed education reform. The week’s centerpiece was an occupation of the state capitol by hundreds of teachers and student sympathizers from the Cal State University system, who clogged the building’s hallways and refused to leave. Police arrested nearly 100 demonstrators for trespassing, including then–CTA president David Sanchez. The protesting teachers had left their jobs behind, even though their students were undergoing important statewide tests that week. With the passage of 50 years, the CTA’s notions of “good citizenship” had vanished.


So had high-quality public education in California.


Read the rest at City Journal

Porn-writing Teachers' College Discipline Head's lax discipline to sexually abusive teachers & OISE uses MATH class to indoctrinate kids with anti-American propaganda

Thanks to Blazing Cat Fur for the video!

The Democrats put support from the Teachers' Union above students' interests

The new documentary Waiting For Superman has highlighted some of the problems in the American educational system.

The movie was directed by Davis Guggenheim, who also helmed An Inconvenient Truth. A self-described liberal, Davis was resistant to the idea that the Teachers Union in the US was one of the major problems facing improving US schools, but as he investigated the issue, identifying them as a culprit became unavoidable.

The Teachers Union is one of the largest contributors to the Democratic Party, so US Democrats and President Obama have been reluctant to address the problem, as Tucker Carlson observes in the video below:


UPDATE: from reason.com "Waiting for Superman becomes Waiting for Godot" and Michelle Rhee, the reformist Education Superintendent in Washington D.C. who was one of the heroes of the film, resigned on Oct. 13.

A Trillion Dollar Industry with Zero Accountability

That's how the US educational system has been described by American education reformer Geoffrey Canada in a discussion following the new documentary Waiting for Superman.

David Guggenheim and Participant Media, the director and production company responsible for An Inconvenient Truth, will be releasing a movie next month about how America's schools are robbing a generation of children of the opportunity to receive an education that enables them to compete in the global marketplace.

The public school system in the US was the zenith of world education two generations ago, but has fallen to one of the lowest standards in the post-industrial world. Virtually no state in the union has better than 40% of its students who have achieved grade-level reading and math skills. In the District of Columbia, it's a dismal 12%.

There are a variety of reasons for the failure but one of the culprits that Waiting for Superman focuses on is the Teachers Union.

The tenure system in US public schools virtually guarantees that teachers cannot be fired. No matter how incompetent or uninterested a teacher may be in their job, they can't be removed, and class after class, year after year, students will receive an inferior education from that teacher.

Waiting for Superman follows 5 families who are trying to get their children into charter schools, which use public money, but don't have to follow the rules and formulas proscribed by the Public School system. Geoffrey Canada, who is featured in the documentary, has started up many of these charter schools that ensure high standards of teaching and provide students with structure and discipline. The results of Geoffrey Canada's teaching methods have been spectacular.


Geoffrey Canada has spoken on 60 Minutes about how as a child he cried when he learned Superman wasn't real. His sorrow was because of the lost hope in a superhero who could arrive and ensure that justice is done.

America's wait for a Superman to save the public education system may be a long one, but at least reformers like Geoffrey Canada, though without a cape, are out there saving one school at a time.