Are schools teaching Marxism and opposing our western free enterprise system?

[blackbird]

The Toronto and District School Board has come under fire for opposing Capitalism.  Is this a sign that school boards and schools themselves in Canada are brainwashing anti western values and anti-Capitalism ideology into young people?  This is something that should be investigated and examined.  Should school boards be abolished and a new governance model established?

"“Our capitalist system,” I have just learned, “is one of the main reasons our planet is getting stripped away and destroyed.” That is according to the Toronto District School Board, which made the claim in the November edition of its EcoSchools newsletter to promote something called “Buy Nothing Day” on November 29. The TDSB says that by buying nothing for a day people can protest consumerism and help the environment. The reality, of course, is just the opposite: capitalism and buying things are nothing to protest. Nor are they responsible for “our planet getting stripped away and destroyed.”

Matthew Lau: Schools should stop teaching lies about capitalism

 

[Michael Hardner]

Concerned parent?

 

I'm hoping my school board teaches kids to listen to ideas and be able to turn them around in their heads on their own...

Or I guess I could invite you to burst into the classroom and tell them to yell lalala and cover their ears...

Snowflake noise is a thing folks.  

[blackbird]

24 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

Concerned parent?

 

I'm hoping my school board teaches kids to listen to ideas and be able to turn them around in their heads on their own...

Or I guess I could invite you to burst into the classroom and tell them to yell lalala and cover their ears...

Snowflake noise is a thing folks.  

It seems the TDSB is using schools as a tool to brainwash liberal/ leftist ideology into young minds.  Of course as a liberal lefty yourself, you would scoff at any exposure of it.

[WestCanMan]

30 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

Concerned parent?

 

I'm hoping my school board teaches kids to listen to ideas and be able to turn them around in their heads on their own...

Or I guess I could invite you to burst into the classroom and tell them to yell lalala and cover their ears...

Snowflake noise is a thing folks.  

In your little leftist mind, how does 

• “Our capitalist system,” I have just learned, “IS one of the main reasons our planet is getting stripped away and destroyed.” That is according to the Toronto District School Board, which made the claim in the November edition of its EcoSchools newsletter to promote something called “Buy Nothing Day” on November 29. 
• equate to
• I'm hoping my school board teaches kids to listen to ideas and be able to turn them around in their heads on their own...

At the top there's a one-sided declarative statement, leaving no room for debate, coming from a place of authority, and at the bottom you're describing a situation where ideas are presented in a balanced manner and questions are allowed. 

If you're trying to pretend that what's in the OP resembles anything like an open-minded learning environment then you haven't even scratched the surface. 

[WestCanMan]

18 minutes ago, blackbird said:

It seems the TDSB is using schools as a tool to brainwash liberal/ leftist ideology into young minds.  Of course as a liberal lefty yourself, you would scoff at any exposure of it.

He's actually a conservative that just happens to agree with every leftist talking point of the past 10 years.

It's what you'd call next-level open-mindedness.  

The only example in all of history that was more extreme was that of Schmetzy Hicklegruber of Germany, who was the Commandant of a concentration camp but was also a rabbi who built a synagogue and ran some ultra-chic Jewish prep schools during the holocaust. 

[Five of swords]

2 hours ago, blackbird said:

The Toronto and District School Board has come under fire for opposing Capitalism.  Is this a sign that school boards and schools themselves in Canada are brainwashing anti western values and anti-Capitalism ideology into young people?  This is something that should be investigated and examined.  Should school boards be abolished and a new governance model established?

"“Our capitalist system,” I have just learned, “is one of the main reasons our planet is getting stripped away and destroyed.” That is according to the Toronto District School Board, which made the claim in the November edition of its EcoSchools newsletter to promote something called “Buy Nothing Day” on November 29. The TDSB says that by buying nothing for a day people can protest consumerism and help the environment. The reality, of course, is just the opposite: capitalism and buying things are nothing to protest. Nor are they responsible for “our planet getting stripped away and destroyed.”

Matthew Lau: Schools should stop teaching lies about capitalism

 

Anti capitalism does not imply marxism

[Five of swords]

44 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

He's actually a conservative that just happens to agree with every leftist talking point of the past 10 years.

It's what you'd call next-level open-mindedness.  

The only example in all of history that was more extreme was that of Schmetzy Hicklegruber of Germany, who was the Commandant of a concentration camp but was also a rabbi who built a synagogue and ran some ultra-chic Jewish prep schools during the holocaust. 

This is bullshit. And the funniest thing about it is your pretending that Hitler would allow a jew to be a commandant.

[WestCanMan]

5 minutes ago, Five of swords said:

This is bullshit. And the funniest thing about it is your pretending that Hitler would allow a jew to be a commandant.

He wasn't a jew, he was a fictional Nazi who supported Jews, just like MH is a conservative who only supports leftist politicians and policies. 

Congrats F o' S, you got your name right and you solved this riddle. 

[Legato]

2 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

Concerned parent?

 

I'm hoping my school board teaches kids to listen to ideas and be able to turn them around in their heads on their own...

Or I guess I could invite you to burst into the classroom and tell them to yell lalala and cover their ears...

Snowflake noise is a thing folks.  

Cmon Mike you're showing your Cyndi Lauper.

[paradox34]

2 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

Concerned parent?

 

I'm hoping my school board teaches kids to listen to ideas and be able to turn them around in their heads on their own...

Or I guess I could invite you to burst into the classroom and tell them to yell lalala and cover their ears...

Snowflake noise is a thing folks.  

Schools stop teaching critical thinking and analysis decades ago. The majority of our teachers are little more than global socialist parrots. Any opinions contrary to theirs are racist, misogynist and ignorant.  I think it was George Carlin said it best and I'm paraphrasing. "Liberals don't want well educated and informed citizens capable of critical thinking. That's against their interests. They want obedient sheep, smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and dumb enough to accept everything pushed into their faces"

[Michael Hardner]

23 minutes ago, paradox34 said:

Schools stop teaching critical thinking and analysis decades ago. The majority of our teachers are little more than global socialist parrots.  

I stopped after two sentences.

 

Which school does your kid go to?

[paradox34]

2 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

I stopped after two sentences.

 

Which school does your kid go to?

Have too much experience with Ontario and BC school boards, Both give new meaning to the words, divisive, exclusive and indoctrinating!

[Aristides]

I don't have a problem with a buy nothing day. Putting reins on our rampant consumerism isn't being ant capitalist. 

[WestCanMan]

8 minutes ago, Aristides said:

I don't have a problem with a buy nothing day. Putting reins on our rampant consumerism isn't being ant capitalist. 

The problem isn't that a teacher wants to participate in a buy nothing day. Grown adults can support causes of that nature in this country and it's really no one else's business. 

The problem is that teachers are disseminating Marxist propaganda to their students in the public school system, and not even in the form of opinions, they're stating it as "established fact".

FYI China is no less guilty of environmental rape and rampant consumerism than Canada is, and they're a communist dictatorship. Eg., they had over 50,000 rivers and streams in the 1950s and they're down to less than half of that now. They're raping the environment at a rate that we can only imagine in Canada. It takes us forever just to get a pipeline built here, we need permission from everyone within a 5-mile radius to do anything.

The myopic Marxist mor0ns in our public school system need to be kept in check. 

[herbie]

3 hours ago, Five of swords said:

Anti capitalism does not imply marxism

But, but it must! Heretic! Blasphemy! Burn, witch!

[WestCanMan]

8 minutes ago, herbie said:

But, but it must! Heretic! Blasphemy! Burn, witch!

Did someone say "Trump"?

[Michael Hardner]

2 hours ago, paradox34 said:

Have too much experience with Ontario and BC school boards, Both give new meaning to the words, divisive, exclusive and indoctrinating!

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Not TDSB?

[herbie]

further example of I refuse to hear because it runs counter to what I want to believe,,,

[blackbird]

Some still don't believe that Communism, Socialism, and Marxism are all legalized theft.  The Bible says in the ten commandments  "thou shalt not steal".  Yet some think if the government does it, it must not be stealing.  It comes from the theory that governments can do no wrong.  Taking from Peter to pay Paul by force is still stealing no matter how one looks at it.  

Of course governments have a right to tax people in order to provide basic necessary services.  But at some point, if it goes beyond and becomes part of Communist or Socialist ideology, then it becomes stealing.

[Moonlight Graham]

Before capitalism people didn't want to acquire more/better material objects and wealth, and greed didn't exist, nor war and violence and theft over material goods.  Even though most animals have always fought over resources and territory because they're finite.

[Moonlight Graham]

15 hours ago, Moonlight Graham said:

Before capitalism people didn't want to acquire more/better material objects and wealth, and greed didn't exist, nor war and violence and theft over material goods.  Even though most animals have always fought over resources and territory because they're finite.

@Michael Hardner I was being sarcastic

[herbie]

Students should be taught more about free enterprise capitalism so they aren't like some of you that stupidly believe "Their in business to save YOU money".
The ultimate sucess to it is when both parties are satisfied by the transaction, and how f*cking often does that happen lately?

Students would be able to figure out themselves that it is not an infinitely sustainable system itself. That's WHY there are govt (read that public) controls.

Edited November 23, 2024 by herbie

[Michael Hardner]

28 minutes ago, Moonlight Graham said:

@Michael Hardner I was being sarcastic

I know.  I even thanked you.

[eyeball]

On 11/22/2024 at 12:19 AM, blackbird said:

The Bible says in the ten commandments  "thou shalt not steal".  Yet some think if the government does it, it must not be stealing.

You seem to think it's only theft when left wing governments collect taxes.

Does your Bible tell you to treat it more like a charitable donation when you remit your taxes to a conservative government?

[blackbird]

45 minutes ago, eyeball said:

You seem to think it's only theft when left wing governments collect taxes.

A conservative government is not expected to be Socialist by definition.  Conservatives believe in free enterprise, not Socialism.  That doesn't mean a conservative government would get rid of all social programs because once society is built on certain programs, they can't be stopped. Old age pensions, welfare, will of course continue for the good of the citizens. But NDP type Socialist programs that try to provide everything imaginable including incomes without working may not happen.  Governments only have so much money and Canada is already deeply in debt.  Debt is harmful because the interest must be paid which comes from the taxpayers and makes it harder to provide essential services.

Edited November 23, 2024 by blackbird