1. Unlike Jon Kay I wasn't born to wealth. My dad drove cabs, my mom cleaned hospital linen. Yet the excellent Canadian public school eduction I received has made me not just a well-known twitter clown but also gainfully employed. https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/961664599626981376 …
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3. For my family, public schools offered a real pathway to mobility. Are the schools perfect? No -- there's real inequality in resources, particularly against Native students.
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4. Still, if the public schools system is to be criticized it should be from someone invested in the system, unlike
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5. One of the implicit assumptions here is private school education doesn't engage in propaganda or social engineering -- which is kind of absurd if you think about it for one minute: https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/961664599626981376 …
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6. I mean Kay's own education was at an private anglo all-boys school in Quebec where he managed not to learn French despite living in a French speaking society. That's several layers of social engineering right there.
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I share this experience as the child of a Greek immigrant with elementary school education.
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That you have done well in the public system as it used to be isn't really relevant to Kay's point, which is about the change taking place in the system. He's arguing that TDSB is pushing social justice at the cost of academics. So, you're talking past his point.
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We had a sections on social justice, multiculturalism and queer studies in Grade 8 when I was in the TDSB and that was years ago. It's possible to cover these subjects as part of academic skills development.
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Son of Irish immigrants here. 1 of 8 children. All public school educated. 7 of 8 gainfully employed. Kay knows not of what he speaks....
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did u go to public school in 2018
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