Danielle Smith has been railing against education for years. Like this wonderful Herald opinon feces, I mean piece, calling for "indoctrination" to stop. Hold on to your bootstraps!
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Some of the assertions in the test were things like, “Free trade is behind many of the ills of the modern world. It makes people poorer and deprives them of power by putting the economy in the hands of transnational corporations. It should be stopped.” And an exercise where a student is supposed to identify irony, showing an editorial cartoon of a T-shirt shop with anti-trade and anti-capitalist slogans on it. Get it? It’s ironic that the shopkeeper makes a profit selling “Capitalism Sucks” T-shirts. The takeaway for the 14-year-old student probably isn’t the nuance of adult hypocrisy. The takeaway is that capitalism sucks.
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https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/co...ooms-must-stop
Now, Danielle completely misses the point of the exercise, which, when you actually read the thing, is laying out things people may think, and the type of person who may think it. There is zero indoctrination. It's given various examples of a diverse range of opinions, which, *Fuzz clutches pearls* must be absolutely terrifying to someone like Smith who seems insistent on forcing her world view upon the rest of us, reality, facts and science be damned.
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The student is never asked to ponder whether the statement is true. Is Canada’s boreal forest the “lungs” of the earth? Is continued development going to “tear a hole” in those lungs? With most future development of oilsands to take place with such innovations as steam-assisted gravity drainage, or SAGD, instead of mining, it seems unlikely.
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Why would they? That wasn't the point of the exercise. They were never presented as fact checked "true" statements. She's got the reading comprehension of Macman. Maybe they got the same education?
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So what is the point of this? This is not education. It’s indoctrination. And it’s got to stop.
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Grind that axe, you numpty. But now I suppose we can expect her and LeGrange to go through the curriculum with a fine toothed comb to weed out this Marxist threat to Alberta Hegemony.