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. 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. 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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curious. what's your quibble with the idea of a just society?
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No quibble. But it would be better to debate the utility of including this in the curriculum knowing something has to come out rather than attacking someone's personal choices about education for their children
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I try to teach my daughters to treat other people with respect whatever their background. I'm glad to have schools that back up this message.
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it's almost as if the question of how we live together is important and the answer is learned through work and interpersonal engagement
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It is important, but bringing up and attacking someone's background, the wealth they grew up and where they send their children to make your point is petty...and misses the mark
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