Graduates Will Probably Be Barred...

...from taking part in Tim Horton Old Farts discussion groups but will find a home at Starfusks, Second Coup and other Californication purveyors of "specialty" brews.

Rhizomes!


Why complain about students when professors are teaching this!

Term 1 - September to December 2011
CCFI 502 (3 credits) Cyborgs, Rhizomes & Margins: A Cross-cultural Conversation in Education
Thursdays, 4:30 to 7:30 pm
Dr. Pat O'Riley (EDCP)

Drawing on a range of transdisciplinary and cross-cultural theoretical perspectives, this course examines the complicities, complexities, and potentialities of the dominant technology narratives in education in a time of neo-colonialism, global capitalism and global warming. Students have an opportunity to critically reflect on the shape these technology discourses might take when intersected with social justice, civil society, Indigenous and environmental voices and agencies. What are the power/knowledge dynamics of the emerging geo/cyber/politics, respacialization, and limitless new frontiers of empire and technological capabilities? Making affiliations with the work of Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Jody Berland, Vandana Shiva and other nomadic/ rhizomatic thinkers and activists, this course is a space for reimagining and remapping potential shapes, text(ure)s, and actions for a radicalized/rhizomatic technology conversation in education.

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Chicken Or Egg...

...are individuals obese because of pre-existing medical problems or are the medical problems due to their obesity? If the latter then I don't see why we are spending $$$$ on surgical procedutes when those $$$$ could be diverted to improving the sdtandard of living for a single mom, providing assistance to seniors living on their own, etc. etc.

We are fat. So, what’s Ontario doing about it? (113)

Falling short in the obesity fight


We are lacking a comprehensive government approach to combat this growing health crisis.

...what we are lacking is personal and parental responsibility and societies acceptance of technology instead of talking, writing, walking, etc. and IMHO the only action the government should take is to apply exorbitant taxes on iPods, video games, tablets, etc.

Indoctrination Opportunties...

2040 Alumni of Ontario Early Education 2010 Class

How Ontario can become a world education leader

By David Crombie, and Margaret McCain

Sat Nov 13 2010

Early education is good for the province and politically popular, too.

Indocrination is not education and relieving parents of their responsibilities by providing baby sitting during the formative years creates an atmosphere for indocrination...government can do no harm.

Who Does The Minister Of Education Report To...

* Teacher Unions

* Leftwing Social In-Activists

* Dulltoon McGoonty

Here We Go Again...

Reading and writing: the golden ticket

But the problem of poor literacy skills is a scandal in plain view. May 14, 2010 

...leftists on school boards diminished the value of the three Rs by refusing to fail students, by changing the role of teachers to student's friends, by promoting the introduction of Jane Has Two Mothers into the reading list and other cultural items that should be left to the families.

Tell This To The Unions And...

Neil Reynolds

The building blocks of education shouldn't cost this much

...and the left wing social in-activists on local school boards and government. 

There Are Still Some Three R Advocates

Are market solutions the answer to what ails public education?

21% 1272 votes

Yes

 

79% 4671 votes

No

Why school boards should follow Edmonton's lead

Allowing parents more choice is a welcome change from the “one size fits all” model imposed on neighbourhoods by public school boards Apr 01, 2010

Programs Might Have Some Value...

Be sure to check that 'separate school supporter' box next time, m'kay...

So I assume, given the photos that accompany this story, that, like, only white people know how to feed their children?
Cuz that's kind of a crappy message, no? Especially if we're obliged to pay for it.
Just askin'...

It’s all part of being one of seven Model Schools for Inner Cities, an innovative — and award-winning — program in the Toronto District School Board that provides an extra $1 million each per year to schools in needy neighbourhoods, for programs that boost not only learning but also social and emotional skills.

A new $25,000 kitchen at George Webster brings parents together once a week to plan and cook a meal; volunteers prepare snacks and hot lunches for kids. Parents may also take career skills workshops, with free babysitting provided, attend talks on youth sexuality, and even have their own room to watch a movie, wait for their children or check out educational resources.

The extra funds have allowed “release time” for teachers to gather and work together, to ensure a strong emphasis on social justice in all subject areas and to make the curriculum relevant to students’ lives, said Steinhauer.

“The school is more like a community centre,” with people and parents milling about, or a settlement worker helping newly arrived families.

How George Webster elementary has spent some of the extra money it receives under the Model Schools for Inner Cities initiative:

Other: social worker, child and youth worker, hearing and vision clinics, multilingual signs, summer school, extra caretaking hours, 30 guitars, 10 African drums

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What? No basketballs??

Hey, when we lived below the "poverty line," my (single) mom took time off work (cough) to take me to "hearing and vision clinics", too. In those days, we called them "the doctor's".

# Kathy Shaidle

BUT WHERE IS THE HELP FOR THESE WORKING PARENTS...

Proposed daycare hike 'infuriating' for parents

Sat Feb 27 2010

Toronto parents Sarah Fittings and Mykola Jemetz struggle to pay annual daycare fees of more than $30,000 for their 5-year-old daughter and 3-year-old...

System Hijacked By Leftists Who...

...threw the 3 Rs in the garbage and put the emphasis on "student rights" which made failing a myth.

Education is the key to aboriginal (and Canadian) potential

Investments in First Nations youth: Consider them a sustainable economic stimulus plan Feb 21, 2010 

CallIt What It Is - Day Care Which The Federal Liberals Promised For 13 Years

The nanny state tax treadmill

By SUN MEDIA

Whenever politicians committed to the nanny state (Dulltoon McGooney) launch expensive, new, social programs despite facing record deficits, they always make two tired arguments.

Governments Want To Take Home Out Of The Equation

Not so fast: Home schooling trumps full-day kindergarten

Research shows home-schooled kids outperform their public-school peers, says Amira Elghawaby, so why so is there little or no financial encouragement for parents to take it on? Jun 18, 2009 6:16PM EDT 18 3

Going To Follow USSR Model???

One less responsibility for breeders........