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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Feb 2018

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      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Feb 2018

      2. I, my brother, & my many cousins (chain migration) all grew up in households where English wasn't spoken. Yet thanks to Canadian public school education we all ended up in colleges & universities, the first generation in our family to do so.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Feb 2018

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Feb 2018

      4. Still, if the public schools system is to be criticized it should be from someone invested in the system, unlike @jonkay, who went to an anglo private school in Quebec & is now sending his kids to a private school.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Feb 2018

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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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Feb 2018

      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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        2. JoanONo! File Under You Can't Make This Stuff Up‏ @mimilu 8 Feb 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Donald Trump is a perfect example that private school education doesn't always take.

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        3. David Warde-Farley  🇺🇦‏ @dwf 10 Feb 2018
          Replying to @mimilu @HeerJeet

          The best one can hope for from education is a path out of ignorance. No school can fix stupid.

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        2. Navdeep Tangri‏ @NavTangri 8 Feb 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          @jonkay is commenting on the inclusion of social justice in the curriculum over traditional academic subjects, and you've chosen to attack him and make assumptions about his family instead. You're indeed a Twitter troll

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        3. Roberto Buffone, PhD  🤌‏ @NotMyLinkedIn 8 Feb 2018
          Replying to @NavTangri @HeerJeet @jonkay

          curious. what's your quibble with the idea of a just society?

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        1. Kevin Brushett‏ @KTBrushett 8 Feb 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          You mean McGill?

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        1. Gramolabear‏ @gramolabear 8 Feb 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Did he go to Stanstead ?

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        2. Matthew Surridge‏ @Fell_Gard 8 Feb 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          1. So I went to a private school in Montreal (three decades ago now, but still), and you're right. Now, my school was much more sedulous in making sure we learned French. But other things I learned then I've since come to see as a function of class.

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        3. Matthew Surridge‏ @Fell_Gard 8 Feb 2018
          Replying to @Fell_Gard @HeerJeet

          2. For example, I got a course in economics that gave me a fair understanding of fractional reserve banking that I've since found was *not* given to people of my age cohort who went to Quebec public schools.

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        1. Jake Cob‏ @jakobpunkt 8 Feb 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          To be fair, lots of anglo montrealers who grow up there and go to public school still manage not to learn French. It's not a lack of education, it's classism.

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        1. Zoe Whittall‏Verified account @zoewhittall 8 Feb 2018
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          YES.

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