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Government-run schools seek to copy Christian schools: parents registering kids—before birth!

Headline today in local paper:

Parents register children before birth at traditional school

It’s a great headline in several ways.  So many good words used in the same sentence.

The “traditional school” —or what they’re calling their “choice” program — is the state’s effort to copy the successful private Christian and other private school model, which has proven over and over to be better at the job of actually “teaching”.  Of course in this case the “traditional” school is, alas, owned and run by the state, but in an obviously different way than the arguably failed and arguably Marxist teachers’ union-run schools, and which have been run and overseen by complicit “progressives” and their left-wing mandarin bureaucrats… whom voters nonetheless insist on voting into office over and over imageagain. (Most voters were educated in the state-run schools after all —so it makes a modicum of sense in a sad, twisted way). 

Manifestly, it’s a tacit admission that they — the government — has once again failed, and in any case they aren’t offering what people really want.  So to fix it, they’re doing what all progressive governments do:  expanding government instead of reducing it, getting more involved in our lives and that of our families instead of getting out of the way, and moving to compete against its own citizens instead of working with them, once again.  It’s what they do as progressives and as progressive governments.

I love articles like this because they help prove everything me and other conservatives have been saying for years, even if they don’t bother to point that out (which they should and would in my newspaper, because it more fully informs people on the important aspects of politics and liberal-left, progressive government philosophy, as contrasted with the conservative).  Among those things:  the private sector can do practically everything, including educating our kids, better than government (especially far-left, progressive governments), and in this particular case, their state-run left-wing propaganda schools.  And the fact that people —regular citizens, parents —want a return to traditional values for them and their families — a time before progressives and their socialist governments began experimenting with and moreover, indoctrinating our kids and attempting to turn them into left-wing vote-‘bots;  And progressive governments in particular are opportunistic and seek to meddle in the marketplace all day long, at any cost, even if — especially if — it screws up the successful private marketplace.  Again, it’s what they do. They want government control over everything, including you and your kids and their health and their learning.

Institutions like the Fraser Institute have proven time and again that private schools do better.  But read it and weep?  No!, say progressives in government.  They read the reports and then choose to compete against the private sector, and run them out of town!  That’s what they do.

…Parents who want to enrol their children at regular neighbourhood schools still have a set registration day and don’t face lineups. Indeed, in several Langley schools the problem is declining enrolments, not wait-lists.

Surrey also has wait-lists for its three traditional schools…

Here again we have a bunch of progressives offering what they’re speciously calling their “choice” program for public schooling.  A “choice”.  This is not a “choice”, this is an “abomination”. 

After proving that what they offered wasn’t working, and which nobody liked, they now offer a “choice” which was and still is already offered by the private sector —the sector which has always and will continue to do it better, cheaper, and more efficiently in every way.  This “choice” word is annoyingly similar to the specious verbiage used in the similarly left-wing Obama/Pelosi/Reid/liberal/Democratic Party/progressives’ egregious and unpopular “health care” law, in which they spoke of their government-run plan offering a “public option” to compete against the private sector’s market-driven options (even as frustratingly limited… by governments).  This is a plan which they know would eventually “succeed” in finally driving the private sector right out of business because in the end, private citizens can’t compete against their own government, so the progressives and their yummy government can wholly take over.  This should actually be called “perfidy”, or “treason”, rather than “choice”, or “public option”.

What kind of government competes against its own citizens?  Well, a government with a failed ideology, and one which isn’t guided by sound principles and values, but rather by a progressive agenda leading to an all-government-run, engineered society.  Therefore I loved this passage in the article, which speaks volumes, especially with my added note (which would have been included in this article if it were in my newspaper):

Traditional schools, which usually boast teacher-led instruction, discipline, parental involvement and student uniforms, are highly popular in parts of the province, but have been shunned in others, such as Vancouver [which is run by abject socialists —Joel]. Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows district recently gave traditional education a cold shoulder while embracing a plan for an environmental school, even though a parent survey found twice as much support for a traditional school [because progressives always think they know better than the rest of us, and don’t particularly care what we think because they think we’re stupid —Joel].

On a slightly different tangent, but still speaking of traditional values and common sense:  this article’s headline and this one sentence in the article takes the award for revealing what people — in the absence of the Abortion Party or abortion leaders like the progressive Michael Ignatieff constantly prattling on about the need for Canadian taxpayers to fund abortions outside our borders — actually know: 

…The district confirmed that wait-lists are long for its “choice” programs and some parents register their children as soon as they’re conceived.

The word “choice” is merely ironic and coincidental, I think.  It’s the words “children” … as attached to the phrase “as soon as they’re conceived”, that caught my attention. 

I’m already registered for that way of thinking.

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