democracy

• A New Police State
• Harper, The New George Bush
• Being Canadian
• Harper to Appeal
• Powering Up the Vote
• Carol James Plea, Desperation or?
• Power Up Your Vote
• Alberta’s Human Rights Assault
• Without a Warrant
• ISPs, Tazers, RCMP, Warrants, Freedom
• The Terrorist Card.
• Harper’s Assault on Human Rights
• Harper’s Solution To Everything
• Walking Out Solves Nothing
• Vancouver Olympics & Opposition
• Harper’s Twisting of Truth
• Lives at Stake, or Political Backsides?
• Sign of the Times
• Should Voters Decide…
• Supreme Court Rules Against Khadr
• Smart Grid or Spy?
• Harper Conservatives Must Go

Not really much in the news over here about it, which is one more reason why outlets like the CBC are needed, and need to be properly funded. So we can get a picture of what is going on, everywhere in our Country. Just one of the reason why the Harper Government seems intent on denying additional funding to the CBC in these alleged trying times.

Alberta passed its Human Rights bill, and in it, it basically gutted the entire role of Education, in that province. It made so many loopholes in it, that one wonders if perhaps the entire Conservative Agenda is to keep people dumb, barefooted, and stuck out in the back forty digging ditches.

Alberta legislators passed legislation early Tuesday that will give parents the option of pulling their children out of class when lessons on sex, religion or sexual orientation are being taught. ( CBC News )

The role of Government is to PROTECT MINORITIES, from hate, from bias, from discremination. That is the supposed intent of Human Rights Legislation, and yet this so called Bill, does the exact opposite. It makes it easier for racism, for bias, to be not only go unchecked, but in essence, helps promote those views.

By allowing Parents this carte blanche at taking their offspring out of classes, when issues they disagree with are being discussed, they actively allow for the promotion of those very ideas. They allow parents to continue with their ignorances, and foist them unto the next generation.

The Kick a Ginger campaign tha caused many Albertan Kids to be picked on, is one prime example of racism, and how quickly it can spread. Now the means to help lessen that type of action, is taken away, under the guise of parental rights.

It as well, furthers the fear factor for educators, who will now back off, for fear of being prosecuted, of discussing and helping show that there are two sides to every issue. I am not saying you have to believe that things I believe in, are true or even right, but you should afford me the same courtesy I afford you, which is to listen.

By taking kids out of school, they re-enforce that somehow what is being discussed is wrong, is bad, and that helps promote the hate, the racism. Schools are meant to teach, not pass judgement. It is to expand one’s knowledge, and to provide means for young people to learn about other things, that they have no information on, or that is biased to one side, over the other.

The danger here, is the climate it creates, as well as how it denies children the right, to hear all sides of any contentious issue. It leads to ignorance, and when did that become a goal of Education? Simply put, because it may offend a parent, who should know better, they at least have years of experience to supposedly base their judgement on. A child will follow the parent, and don’t we want our kids to be able to make up their own minds?

And not just on the minor stuff, but the real important issues, like what is right, what is wrong? When we allow them to be taken out of classes, when those very issues come into play, we do them a disservice, and we add to the already dangerous mix of racism, and hate, that is in our society.

SCHOOLS ARE SUPPOSED TO TEACH, TO EDUCATE, TO INFORM, NOT TO SERVE THE BIGOTTED VIEWS OF ANY GROUP.