Students may be flunking math but never mind: they know their climate-change colonialism

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In Ontario, half of all sixth-grade students fail to meet provincial standards in mathematics, despite being tested with questions such as solving for k given the equation k – 9 = 4. The latest issue of ETFO Voice, the magazine of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, likely won’t make Ontario parents feel any better about the public education system.

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The president’s message at the front of the magazine appears under a bold red title, “Fight for our Future.” That’s all well and good, but unfortunately the full title reads, not “Fight for our Future: Improve Math Instruction for the Next Generation” or “Fight for our Future: Strategies for Teaching Algebra,” but instead: “Fight for our Future: Why Climate Justice is Education Justice.”

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