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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Jon Kay is assuming based on an optional toolkit that my kids won't be be gainfully employed. He's also assuming that private education doesn't have a social engineering function. Both are absurd.
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I don't disagree with you, but as a parent, he has the freedom to send his children to whatever school he wants, and you don't need to attack him for that.
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I don't think I attacked him for that, just noted that he's someone who has no investment in or personal knowledge of system (having gone to private school himself & sending kids there).
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