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Yes, but education is pretty much run by overpaid eggheads - superintendents, consultants, etc. Read the jargon in the article I cite below. Then read the comments of normal citizens. Those running the system are disconnected from reality. https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/ontario-to-target-math-report-cards-in-curriculum-revamp/article36180050/?ref=https://www.theglobeandmail.com&service=mobile

Is this the way of the future? One school in Ontario will experiment with this concept. I think that the public school system should just let students have 100% control of the system. https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/ontario-high-school-students-to-negotiate-final-grades-in-experiment/article36162866/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&

Oh, you're getting defensive. You must be a teacher or have family members who are teachers. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/08/30/math-scores-flat-falling-among-ontario-elementary-students.html

I guess that's one way of avoiding the stats that I produced showing that math education in Ontario is in decline. The latest grade 6 math test results prove my point. Yet, you decide to dodge the issue. So, in your opinion, jacee, why is the performance of Ontario students in math in a state of steady decline. That's the question. Enough with your immature dodging of the math results. The steady use of Emojis don't make you right.

Take a look at the PISA results you cited. Quebec #1, all the other in decline. You ignore the facts I provided. What's your opinion on why Ontario's math scores have consistently dropped? That is what this thread is about, which you haven't addressed. Stay focused, jacee, stay focused. Also, anyone who pays even minimal attention realizes that public education is becoming a joke.

MY Op is about math. Let's compare the PISA results of Quebec and Ontario in mathematics going back to 2003. These are the scores on the PISA tests for mathematics by 15 year olds. The higher the number, the better the score. 2003 Ontario 530 Quebec 537 2006 Ontario 526 Quebec 540 2009 Ontario - 526 Quebec 543 2012 Ontario - 514 Quebec 536 2015 Ontario - 509 Quebec - 544 As you can see, Ontario's performance in math is in steady decline. These are the PISA results that you cited. Why is Ontario struggling in math?

Another article questions teacher knowledge of math. https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-real-issue-in-ontarios-schools-the-teachers-need-to-be-taught-math/article36136069/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&cmpid=rss1&click=sf_globe&click=sf_globe

What blanket statement? Latest grade 6 math tests show half of Ontario's grade 6 students aren't meeting standards. That is a fact. Over the years, the test results that you have linked have been declining.

This isn't a political issue. Public education is in trouble in 9 of 10 provinces with Quebec being the exception. Liberals, Conservatives, and the NDP are equally to blame.....or those who run the provincial departments of education, who keep their jobs regardless of party in power.

There are no plans to end the discovery nonsense. Money is to be made.

Yet, you have nothing to say about the actual issue I posted. Why are Ontario Grade 6 students doing so poorly in math?

I don't think this is political, however, progressive approaches dominate public education, which is looking to be a big waste of money or an expensive baby-sitting project.

There was another opinion piece in today's G&M. https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/when-will-ontario-break-the-cycle-that-is-failing-its-math-students/article36157223/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&

Yeah, accounting no longer matters and no longer means anything. Delusion rules: IT companies that make zero money, that have no prospect of ever doing so, that still command stupendous share prices. And this from the people that proclaim to everyone how “educated” they are. Can you say irrational exuberance? Can you say just plain irrational? Can you say totally f$%^ing insane? Outside the bastions of fantastical dream-spinning like Silicon Valley, things look more and more like Cuba and Greece. Uber, which ought to be seen for what it is, a colossal loss-maker and harbinger of societal and economic collapse, is lauded as what? Ground-breaking? Maybe it is. But for all the wrong reasons. If that company isn’t internet-based despair for people scratching for money then what the hell is it? Same with air-bnb. It’s for those out of work, out of luck, over their heads and totally and completely f@#$%&. Better get those rooms let-out or wave good-bye to the house cause you gonna be missin’ mortgage payments baby. And if the more desperate territories start to look more Cuban and Greek, if the less decayed parts try to maintain a façade by room-letting and taxi driving, Washington smells more and more Brazilian, carrion-bird politicians shitting all over the picked-clean carcass of a formerly robust economic organism. Given all this, they start to make the numbers say things they’re not saying. Or they pretend to not understand what they mean. Or they ignore them altogether. Losses? Get out the party hats.

Interesting side effect from this natural disaster – we are seeing, slightly, a return to the old ways, in that people called “reporters” are going to the Houston area and telling us about what we can see happening. Of course, they are still devoting plenty of time in critiquing Donald Trump’s every word and perceived thought. That isn’t really reporting the news, because the news is a major city has been hit by a hurricane. Notice when we see actual reporting, we see a very different picture of what America and Americans are like. We are pretty good people. I did happen to switch over to CBS last night, and they were taking time too do a rundown of various minor local stories, carefully curated to portray America as a racist cruel uncaring country. That’s not what I see in Houston. Now why would the MSM, and their minions in the Democratic Party, want to divide the races like that?

Irma could cause epic destruction, with Jose on deck. Humanity is going to first go broke, then starve.

Gotcha. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale were nationalists.

What does it matter? I know nationalists of all colours. Do you?

This may be the best post I've read on this forum. So true. Most people don't realize their reliance on the state to raise their kids, while making posts on facebook and twitter about how great their kids are. I'm not sure your age MG, but you definitely exude wisdom.

I'm a Canadian nationalist. I root for Canadians during the Olympics when they compete against Greeks or Cypriots.

It has been recently reported that only half of Ontario grade 6 students meet provincial math standards. Are teachers to blame? The government mandated curriculum? Parents? Technology distraction?This seems like a serious issue, but I wonder how many people actually pay attention. I doubt this is just an Ontario issue. Kudos for Ontario for actually having some statistics. I guess I understand why teacher unions and teachers dislike standardized tests. Here are a number of links with many following comments. https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/half-of-grade-6-students-fail-to-meet-ontario-math-standards/article36124763/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com& https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/ontario-math-training-needs-a-full-revamp/article29534302/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/half-ontario-students-fail-math-1.4268616