Kathleen Wynne rips PC MPP for homophobic attack on Sex Ed

Debater wrote:

RevolutionPlease wrote:

Cool stuff Debater, the Libs keep winning provincially, prepare for a conservative onsluaght federally because we're such enemies. I wish you could at least entertain the idea of cooperation.

Who me?

I've been saying since I first appeared here in 2009 that the Liberals & NDP should consider some type of co-operation, but it's hard to know what it should be.  The majority of members of both parties have been against it so far.  It's a complicated issue.  Harper knows that it's controversial and that's why he tries to exploit it and stir up fear about it.

Why not really scare Harper and vote NDP?

It's not that complicated, vote for Liberals is Harper-lite.

Meh, why do I bother?

janfromthebruce wrote:

He brings years of experience with scandals & police investigations! 

Exactly.

There is no suggestion that the Ontario curriculum will be taught as part of a dedicated program. It will continue as part of the Health and Physical Education curriculum without structure, meaning that the institutional imperative will continue to be an ad-hoc approacth taken upon by individual teachers or under the direct instruction of adminstrators.

As I said, talk is cheap, so are curriculum guidlines.

But I am sure that educators will appreciate having an additional "strand" to mark on their report cards, in addition to Dance, Music and Drama, which are rarely taught by a specialists anymore, due to cutbacks. Last year the started to kill off specialists in math and science in the the K to 8 program as well, downloading the whole gamut to the home room teacher, who now is required to figure out how to juggle it all in their daily routine.

In Toronto, that also means doing it without any Educational Assistants in the mainstream K-8 program, since they fired all 300 EA's that did not support special ed, so that they could transfer that funding to fill out the staffing model for FDK -- more students, less staff.

Next year they will be "integrating" special ed students into that mainstream classes, and killing off the specialized support program for kids with special needs.

There is a lot that Quebec can learn about downloading more responsibilities onto front line staff by increasing curriculum requirements, while imposing an austerity funding model.

There isn't any point in voting for the Liberals though, since they will not allow coalition government with the NDP, as Trudeau has said. So it's either the NDP or Harper, basically, whether its a Harper majority, or a Harper minority supported by the Liberals, it doesn't matter much.

Gallant's bible banging constituents probably think this is a brilliant move.

Rokossovsky wrote:

I wonder how the Privatization Premier intends to ensure compliance with the curriculum without funding specialized programing to ensure proper implementation, as opposed to "ad hoc" improvisation by teachers and administrators?

Maybe another checkbox on a form. It's not like funding is tied to this, so I wouldn't really expect any extension of the auditing culture they've continued, nay, embraced from the previous overlords.

Former Sun TV News personality and conservative broadcaster Michael Coren (of people!) has been defending Wynne on Twitter.

He is directing his followers and anyone else complaining about sex-ed to a blog post by Pastor Kevin of Eganville Baptist Church — an evangelical Christian minister

Writes Edward Keenan of the Toronto Star

Michael Coren recently linked to a blog post by Pastor Kevin of Eganville Baptist Church — an evangelical Christian minister — point-by-point demolishes the objections that are circulating about it, noting in one place that “the curriculum actually encourages abstinence” and in another that a claim made by protesters about the curriculum is “not even close. This is simply fearmongering.”

Pastor Kevin makes the head-smackingly obvious observation that in school children learn things about the world they live in, and that as parents we teach them about our values, beliefs and interpretations about those things. “The world is full of people who don’t share our world view, but we do share this province with them,” he writes.

See the post for yourself

http://www.eganvillebaptist.org/follower/?author=5007221dc4aa94fcb410b389

Debater wrote:

Joy Smith = CPC MP for Kildonan-St Paul  

OOPS! Made a mistake. Meant 92 year old NDP stalwart Joy Taylor,