Parents want their children to be educated, not indoctrinated

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The Ontario College of Teachers should send all of us scurrying to find alternatives to this and other like-minded associations and school boards. It is bent on commitments that should bring parents and others to demand change.

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To begin with, the college “acknowledges the role education has played in the genocide of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people.” Further, teacher training must include “anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices” and must infuse “Indigenous knowledge systems, equity and inclusive education … and social-emotional learning.” The college mandates “an anti-oppressive foundation” in which teachers’ “ethical and professional responsibility” is to dismantle “manifestations of power and privilege.”

This rallying cry is an ideological mission. It is ahistorical and reminiscent of the Toronto School Board’s recommendation to purge the names of our first prime minister and other notable historical figures from schools because they were said to reinforce Canada’s “systems of oppression,” “legacy of colonialism,” and “histories of discrimination.” This relentlessly bleak (and........

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