tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post4406995800410027463..comments2024-03-28T19:18:40.387-04:00Comments on Northern Reflections: Waging War On EducationOwen Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-83286118292975163122019-12-09T10:04:05.151-05:002019-12-09T10:04:05.151-05:00We all have to pay for our mistakes, e.a.f.We all have to pay for our mistakes, e.a.f.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-33712651748645280682019-12-08T20:22:48.405-05:002019-12-08T20:22:48.405-05:00of course, he is just as vain, stupid, ignorant as...of course, he is just as vain, stupid, ignorant as dtrump. the voters of Ontario got what they deserved/voted for. I'm just sorry children are the victims of it all.e.a.f.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-64657444896430121432019-12-08T08:55:03.477-05:002019-12-08T08:55:03.477-05:00Ford is on record as an admirer of Trump, e.a.f.Ford is on record as an admirer of Trump, e.a.f.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-65765423053002584692019-12-07T22:51:53.498-05:002019-12-07T22:51:53.498-05:004 on line courses you say. what about students w...4 on line courses you say. what about students who don't own computers and parents can't afford internet? do it at school they say? well what if there isn't time. In my opinion, this is all about privitization of eduction. If you have a look at what Betsy DeVos has done in the U.S.A. and is doing, you'll see this on line junk is an American move. By moving courses and the entire education of a child onto on line, there is not only a declining need for teachers, but rural schools. <br />the land these schools sit on can then be sold to their developer friends. On line education can never replace class room learning for children. School is much more than simply absorbing information. Its about learning to work and play in the world around you. children who are only educated on line or in home, frequently don't have the skills to develop as mature functioning adults who can inter act with others in a team.<br /><br />If we look at what Americans have done to public education over the decades and then look at how their society has developed other problems, well that is what Ford and the Cons have in mind for Canada. Poorly educated people can not make informed decisions. If you have a look at states which have poor public education, you will also find unemployment and poverty. <br /><br />Its not about the money, its about bringing in private education and such lovely things as "charter schools". Any one can set them up in the U.S.A., not even have a campus, collect the money from the government and then leave, closing the doors, delivering nothing. <br /><br />What Ford is doing has nothing to do with saving money and everything with producing an ill informed public under class.<br /><br />Some of us in B.C. are looking forward to all those laid off nurses from Alberta coming to B.C. and I'm sure the laid off teachers of Ontario will enjoy B.C. Housing is more expensive in the lower mainland and Greater Victoria, but the weather is much warmer in the winter. We're short teachers and health care professionals. <br /><br />Those who voted Conservative now can learn to live with the results or die because of them. Welcome to the world of dtrumpe.a.f.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-20511321495731742322019-12-07T17:46:38.233-05:002019-12-07T17:46:38.233-05:00Spot on, BM. Dissemblers both. Now the piper will ...Spot on, BM. Dissemblers both. Now the piper will be paid. These are not easy times.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-32259603433966140042019-12-07T17:41:57.289-05:002019-12-07T17:41:57.289-05:00You may recall, Cap, that Mike Harris claimed tha...You may recall, Cap, that Mike Harris claimed that nurses were like hula hoops. They would soon be replaced by other means. Apparently, Ford believes that teachers will soon be replaced by other means.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-55953709947443488002019-12-07T17:18:28.367-05:002019-12-07T17:18:28.367-05:00Conservatives -- the gift that just keeps on givin...Conservatives -- the gift that just keeps on giving. Doug removed the Progressive from the provincial party just by standing there looking sleek, missing just a fat cee-gar as a prop for a boss with a waistcoat and suspenders. Doug Ford, open for business with a cowed caucus ready to stand up and sit down at his whim. From afar down here in the Maritimes I can say nobody dressed like that with slicked back hair, a permanent fake grin of self-satisfaction and a sweaty swagger would have a look in as a pol. I mean, how observant does a person have to be to pick out a sleazebag who resembles a '50s Las Vegas Casino owner from Hollywood Central Casting?<br /><br />Boy, I do not envy the lot of Ontarians. They made a stab in the dark electing Doug, and in return he has turned around and screwed the lot of you. Abandoned projects so cancellation fees have to be paid out, having even a US Public Utilities Commission turn down Ontario Hydro's application to buy a utility due to likely political manipulation. What do you think they saw? A self-interested blowhard in all likelihood, likely to, shall we say, dabble. He wants the populace to be as ill-informed and uneducated as he is, presuming then they'll see things his way and despise anyone with knowledge and a job with a pension that they don't have. I mean, it's been crap over boomer week for a couple of years already. Who needs good schools? We don't need a whole new passel of well-educated kids not willing to toil for minimum wage, he must think. Think of all the money they'll demand! And that'll spoil his slogan of Ontario open for business where the wages are low and the people are happy with slurping buck a beer and jobs with no bennies.<br /><br />I dunno. Good luck to you and all of us because Ontario is 40% of this country. And we all have an even greater peril to face. Jason Kenney. An intelligent and cunning self-interest seeker - the Unctuous Voice of Doom for the general (obviously wildly overpaid if you're a brainwashed Con) public toiling in AB's public sector. He'll ousource everything to privateers who'll pay even worse and pocket the difference while offering zilch pensions - what the employees have now has been seized to invest in tarsands. Reality is worse than Orwell. Dissemblers both, Ford and Kenney, not builders of social trust but builders of projects that require investor capital and a fancy return. Good to be friends with those people if you're a Con leading light. Who cares about the stupid losers who elected them? That's the coldness of these pols who are just in it for themselves. Good luck to the teachers.<br /><br />BMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-47309242082198771022019-12-07T17:00:54.681-05:002019-12-07T17:00:54.681-05:00I can't say I'm surprised, after all Ford ...I can't say I'm surprised, after all Ford ran on Common Sense Revolution 2.0. I'm just amazed that Kenney beat him to the second front in CSR, which is the attack on nurses. Kenney's already announced that he's cutting 750 nurses (500 FTE) out of a stressed healthcare system. Ford's really slipping up on the job of putting women in their place.<br /><br />CapAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com