We don't see colour or $2.25 million

[sabotabby]

 The Ford Regime loudly scrapped the 2015 Heath and Physical Education curriculum, reverted to an out-of-date 1998 curriculum, and has now made a "new" curriculum that is basically the 2015 curriculum with a few grade levels tweaked, a few things added, and the option to pull your kid out of class if you're a religious fundamentalist who thinks that hearing about teh gay will make your kid gay. These minor tweaks cost the Ontario taxpayers $2.25 million.


Absolutely worth firing 1/5 of high school teachers in the province, right? That's savings right there.

The new Monster of Education, Stephen Lecce, was on CBC this morning waxing poetic about his immigrant family (note: white, Italian) and said twice that "we're conditioning children not to see difference."

Not sure if he was talking about how he doesn't see colour or how no one will notice the fact that he basically swapped back in the original curriculum with one that is almost exactly the same but cost $2.25 million more.

There's going to be an announcement about class sizes at 11:15 today. Wish me luck that I still have a job.

Comments

[moon_custafer]

Good luck!

I've been hoping the tweaked-but-stilly-basically-the-2015 curriculum has been introduced in response to protests about scrapping the Wynne curriculum, while trying to save face by pretending this is a new curriculum the Ford gov't has come up with.

(It's sort of like how there are/were US voters who railed against "Obamacare" but liked the Affordable Care Act?)

[sabotabby]

That's exactly what they're doing. But it cost money that could have gone to staffing, or clean schools, or a curriculum that needed to be updated, or breakfast programs, or hey, a bunch of fidget spinners for the kids what glow in the dark or basically anything other than this.

[dewline]

Lecce apparently made the rounds of all the CBC morning news shows in Ontario in order to push the current official line. I heard him at 810 AM EST on Ottawa Morning.

Hoping for the best for your job!

[sabotabby]

Well, I'm still employed for now. The announcement was gobbledygook intended to have the boards and unions scrambling to figure out what the fuck it meant.

[dewline]

Ahhh...gobbledegook, and its cousin bafflegab...but I'm glad to know you're still employed.

[minoanmiss]

Jesus Christ. I am so sorry.

[sabotabby]

Thanks.

[radiantfracture]

Wurghhh.

Good luck.

[sabotabby]

Thanks.

[numb3r_5ev3n]

:( Good luck

[sabotabby]

Thanks.

[notasupervillain]

I dunno, sounds like a win to me.

1 good press for changing the curriculum
2 the lost money is an excuse to cut jobs

Win-win!

[sabotabby]

It's v. clever.

The announcement was that class sizes were not going to be as big as anticipated. Except. The government had nothing to do with that, it caught the school boards by surprise, there's no extra money to make them smaller again or to hire people back, and everyone is confused.

[notasupervillain]

Some kids aren't meant for higher education, and we need to provide them with valuable work opportunities. Or lower education. Look, someone needs to work in the salt mines, and who better than poor people's children?

[sabotabby]

Are there no prisons, workhouses, etc?

[notasupervillain]

The snowflakes get real upset when we keep kids in cages.