Following BC’s bad example (part 3):
January 14, 2008 | Author: Ron Gray |
Children are the prize in a secret war.
Note: As Part Four of this series explains, education is within provincial jurisdiction; however, much of the funding comes from federal coffers. More important: what happens in Canada's schools is a matter of national concern-parents in other jurisdictions must be warned about corruption of the process anywhere in the country. Right now, BC is reaping the bitter fruit of careless legislation, and the even-more-bitter fruit of duplicity and behind-the-scenes manipulation of what should be public business.
Ron Gray
Right now, in British Columbia, a secret war is being waged against parental control of children's education. The story is an astonishing web of duplicity and deception.
It began a couple of years ago when two men (both teachers)-who think they're married to each other-threatened the BC government with a "human rights" lawsuit because the public school curriculum didn't give adequate recognition to homosexuals.
Instead of defending the law as passed by the Legislature, the curriculum as approved by the Ministry of Education, and the rights of parents and children, the provincial government caved in. Their utter capitulation took the form of agreeing to let the complainants create a "Social Justice" curriculum for senior high school students. That course-note how the very name implies injustice-had its trial run in six BC school districts in 2007.
But that didn't satisfy the activists: they wanted-and got-authorization to examine the whole curriculum, K to 12, to ensure that it's 'gay'-friendly- and to recommend "ameliorations".
Parents were not consulted. In fact, the documents describing the Social Justice 12 curriculum, issued for "comment" bear a warning that only educators are allowed to see them! The copy I have is, according to that warning, a violation of the province's copyright.
One journalist, Janet Steffenhagen of the Vancouver Sun, has courageously exposed the provincial government's spineless perfidy. But the predictable result has been a collective yawn from the public, who are simply too busy working to pay their excessive taxes to realize what's being done to their children.
And public officials, including Attorney-General Wally Oppal and Education Minister Shirley Bond, have added to parents' confusion by making many seriously misleading statements about the "Corren Settlement Agreement". In fact, they have lied.
If this agreement to re-draw education along homosexualist and Secularist lines is allowed to succeed in BC, you can count on the "whipsaw" technique being used to spread the corruption all across Canada, and beyond.
Other Commentary by Ron Gray:
- Political Daydreams Are Becoming Nightmares—Time to Wake Up!
- Is it Conflict of Interest or Criminal Intent? Or Both?
- A New Offence by the Federal Liberals: Defacing Our Flag
- Liberals Win; Canadians Lose
- Economic Conservatism Misses the Point
- Six Dangers Canada Faces
- Fact-checking the UN’s global government ‘Pact for the Future’: Is Canada’s $5 billion pledge buying a ‘golden parachute’?
- The Lies That Shackle Most Churches in Canada
- Trudeau’s Kiddie Kabinet
- The Looming Attack on All Canadians’ Private Property Rights
- What’s Wrong With Parliament?
- Public / Private Partnerships: Today’s Fascism