Ontario goes to hell
Who will win the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership? Cripes, who would want it?
The Toronto Star’s Rosie DiManno thinks Ontario’s idea of full-day schooling for four-year-olds is “a horror.” Instead, all four-year-olds should go to school for three hours in the morning and spend the rest of the day merrily gamboling about in DiManno’s own childhood. Finally, an early education plan based on time travel! In the Ottawa Citizen, meanwhile, John Robson suggests the government drop the pretense and start “cultivat[ing] children from conception in nutrient-rich artificial wombs,” then return them to their parents “with an MA and a social conscience 22 years later.”
It says here DiManno and Robson need to simmer down. We quite agree children generally need less structure, not more. (Easy for us to say, not having any children. Easy for DiManno, too. Robson we’re not sure about.) But if people don’t want their kids in full-day kindergarten, they just have to muster the courage not to enroll them. It’s optional.
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John Robson writes:
In light of the Ontario government’s a brave new plan to nationalize children, might I submit a modest proposal of my own? Forget kindergarten and after-school programs. The state should pick up your kids from the maternity ward and return them with an MA and a social conscience 22 years later.Why do things halfway, indeed.
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