"School Schools 2020" is a not so grassroots group and they are run by the same bunch of useful idiots and minions who always try to control the narrative, censor others, muzzle those who do not share their viewpoints, and push their 'progressive' agenda of 'social justice' and radical extremism on to others. At this point our society is dividing into "global citizens" and "patriotic Canadians".. I know which side I want to be on and I also know that this town flies the U.N. flag.
There is now some approved commentary on Bruce Wark's recent article here from local communitarian Harold Jarche [ Renaissance Sackville ] on the newest article by Bruce Wark at his sackville.com approved website:
https://warktimes.com/2020/01/24/sackville-audience-hears-about-giving-local-schools-more-power-to-make-decisions/
Watching educational reform initiatives is like listening to the proverbial blind monks trying to describe an elephant. They only feel a piece of it and no one sees the whole.
I liken our dominant educational structure as the offspring of a shotgun wedding between industrialists who needed literate workers to operate their machinery, and progressives who wanted to lift up the common person from poverty and drudgery. It wasn’t an easy marriage, and the children are a tad dysfunctional now. The union was never able to clearly identify the guiding principle of education. One book that has influenced many of my opinions on public education is Kieran Egan’s, ‘The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape our Understanding’. Egan says that Western education is based on three incompatible principles, where all three can never be achieved in a single system.
1. Education as Socialization (age cohorts, class groupings, team sports)
2. Education as learning about Truth & Reality, based on Plato (varied subjects, academic material, connection to culture)
3. Education as discovery of our nature, based on Rousseau (personal sense-making, teacher as facilitator)
2. Education as learning about Truth & Reality, based on Plato (varied subjects, academic material, connection to culture)
3. Education as discovery of our nature, based on Rousseau (personal sense-making, teacher as facilitator)
If you put emphasis on any one of these principles, the others get ignored. The industrialists would have preferred education as socialization and the progressives would have leaned toward education as learning about truth. We have seen some attempts, like Waldorf schools, to develop systems that promote education as discovery of our nature, but that does not go well with a standardized curriculum, whether it has a corporatist agenda or a progressive one. As Egan says:
“Socialization to generally agreed norms and values that we have inherited is no longer straightforwardly viable in modern multicultural societies undergoing rapid technology-driven changes. The Platonic program comes with ideas about reaching a transcendent truth or privileged knowledge that is no longer credible. The conception of individual development we have inherited is based on a belief in some culture-neutral process that is no longer sustainable.” —Kieran Egan
Basically, it’s complex and no single curriculum will ever be adequate. In our networked society, education should be organized like the web — small pieces, loosely joined.
My commentary which I won't add to the site because I'm tired of him editing:
"I REALLY love how Sackville Schools 2020 collectivists have made it their mission to dominate the entire culture in this town of useful idiots… that’s all I need to say at this point.. I made one comment on their facebook page when they were starting up inquiring and they blocked me .. John Higham, Michael Fox, Kelly-Spurles and all the others really are soft spoken tyrannical clutch of small-minded people. I feel convinced they are desperate at this point to push their narrow views on others and I remain unimpressed.. the teachers in this town are great.. but these “meddlers” in their clique are not so great… thanks for covering this most recently held CLUSTERFUCK in town hall Bruce."
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They're always up to something with the 'advisors, paid consultants
and visioning meetings' .. so predictable .. so tiresome...
They're always up to something with the 'advisors, paid consultants
and visioning meetings' .. so predictable .. so tiresome...
Lots of great marketing ideas are being shared at our World Café being facilitated by
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