the OCSB ACTIVELY seeks them out when hiring!
Miss seguin is just one example. There will be MANY more in the future!
Are kids expelled for saying there are only 2 genders and for using sex-based pronouns?
Pls RESPECTFULLY object to ocsb bringing in gender ideology (Pope francis calls it demonic). Dont attack the gender confused woman elemenary teacher
Gender Ideology is DIABOLICAL. So, OCSB brings in an activist to talk to little kids about it. and also Harvey Milk (a pederast with a 16yo street boy). No warning for parents, no opt-out options
This is what Archbishop Prendergast said about role models and speakers. Fae (real name Zac) pushing demonic ideology (gender ideology says that one can choose if you are boy or girl) is NOT a good role model.
We were promised by the OCSTA, and school boards and the ACBO Catholic Bishops that GSA clubs would follow RD guidelines
What happened to that promise?
Does anyone believe any of these GSAs follow RD?? Really? Their teacher leaders all hate the Catechism and the @ICEONTario monograph on Gender
OCSB have a very old reference to RD on their website.. Quite frankly, they do not follow these guidelines at all. They are misleading parents and priests! There is NO reference to the RD document their 2022 post on GSAs? Why? https://www.ocsb.ca/2022/06/01/students-celebrate-their-ocsbpride/
Check out their twitter feed; https://twitter.com/search?q=ocsbpride%20gsa&src=typed_query
Does this Chaplain follow Respecting Differences?
https://twitter.com/DrJoeChaplain/with_replies
Do any GSAs follow this ICE document on Transgender?? Nope! https://iceont.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ICE-Monograph-FINAL-Supporting-Transgender-Students-5.pdf
We need CLEAR statements from Bishops, school boards, ACBO, OCSTA etc that they are following RD or not. Which is it? Be honest to parents!!
Look at what it teaches on contraception, masturbation and gender identity! Do they really not care about the Catechism, Pope JPII’s Theology of the Body, etc etc?
The book encourages exploring kink on the internet, watching porn, and using sex toys.
The book includes a scene of abuse where a boy is told to “bust a load” in a bottle. “If you don’t, you have to DRINK IT,” the character says. The book also includes male on male oral sex and a boy watching pornography.
Parents are no longer allowed to read from these vulgar books for 180 seconds at OCSB Board meetings. The snowflakes on the Board cannot handle it. They unilaterally banned reading from library books after the book “This Book is Gay” was read for 15seconds (ruled out of order) and a book on a dad sexually assaulting his daughter (Identical by Ellen Hopkins)
https://www.exposingsogi123.com/books-review
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eHjIU71iEV3pSza3Z3WX7CWMxlG0Zra1I2K8vFM4lpk/edit Presentation Guidelines
So the OCSB spends our tax dollars to buy vulgar books for our children. They put them in their libraries (high school libraries are for 12yo Grade 7 and onwards) but can’t listen for 180 seconds what they contents say!!
They will stop at nothing to push trans agenda and getting kids to take hormones, wear chest binders and have mutilation surgery.
They got this meme from “Illustrated Ministry” (that is the little words under “TheM”) who got the idea from a protestant church in San Francisco that loves to call God “they”. The school knew EXACTLY what they were doing!!! Who did this? Their chaplaincy leader. “Dr Joe”? their principal? who is accountable?????
Another #OCSB “Chaplain” promoting LGBT Camp Micah – CIA Blog (wordpress.com)
Are Catholics willing to stand by and let the Blessed Trinity be mocked for an evil agenda??
More tweets from OCSB teachers about Ramadan than Lent! Ramadan igns up at school.
Catholics know that Mohammed was a false prophet and the Quran was not received from God.
“Muslims believe that, during the month of Ramadan, the Prophet Muhammad was given the Qur’an, Islam’s holy book. It marked the first time that God revealed to Muhammed he was a prophet tasked with carrying God’s message.”
We are meant to be kind to Muslims, but not celebrate their belief in Muhammed being a prophet.
https://onepeterfive.com/what-did-the-saints-say-about-islam/
I am told by priests that more Muslim kids in OCSB schools attend weekly mosque than OCSB students attend Sunday Mass.
The following resources after the first link are 100% in agreement with the Catholic faith (and what @ICEOntario teaches!). These resources are not what govt/OECTA-run “catholic” schools teach in Ontario from JK to 12!!
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2 new videos. FORMED is free via almost all parishes.
https://ondemand.ewtn.com/free/Home/Series/ondemand/video/en/transgender-movement
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https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/12/transgender-conformity
ICE:
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Also available online to ocsb kids via ocsb sora. What happened to ccc 2357 to 2359? What happened to making saints?
It all starts in JK. This is an example from yesterday at OCSB Guardian Angels in Stittsville (West Ottawa)
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and this is for Grade 7-12 at All Saints in Kanata (also west Ottawa)
Click on pic.twitter for 40 sec video
What percentage of OCSB grads in 14 years will be mass-attending Catholics?? 2%??
PS: Parents will now, after the PC massive re-election, have to endure a year or 2 of work to rule (no sports, extracurriculars, parent teacher mtgs, etc) and rotating one day strikes. Tchrs will declare it is “for the children” lol.
the efforts of ocsb teachers and egale and the pink lobby appear to be working. Are Bishops and priests really ok with this farce of a “catholic” school system??
With rainbow flags going up again in “catholic” schools, will priests walk under these flags to go to schools to say year-end masses (incl grad masses)??
Check out the hashtag #ocsbpride on Twitter
There is a rapid decline in Ontario Catholicism. It is becoming more and more like Quebec Catholicism. In Quebec City, 90% of parishes have merged/closed into 20 “pastoral centres”. Ontario is becoming a province of “baptized pagans”
2. LGBTQ Activists will never be happy with any traditional teaching in Catholic schools. Even TCDSB teacher Debuono wants defunding of Catholic schools after his victory for rainbow flags at schools. People like Gerry Butts are pushing for defunding now too.
https://paulmcguire1.com/tag/paolo-de-buono/
3. Deepening hatred of Catholic Church because of Residential schools. This will further reduce support for Catholic school funding. One party (lib or NDP) will soon see defunding as a path to electoral victory. 2 yrs ago, 40% of Catholics supported a single public system. What will it be in 2022??
4. Deepening provincial debt crisis will cause governments to look for any savings they can find.
Ontario is the most indebted sub-national state in the world. We have $400B in debt. As interest rates rise of the next few yrs, we will have a financial crisis. There are not huge savings to be found in defunding Catholic schools (a few hundred million from less busing, less board admin, etc) but this few hundred million will be huge when we are in debt crisis.
As well, we have a grey tsunami of elderly coming – this will put a huge financial pressure on the healthcare and LTC system. We are already way below OECD averages for beds/1K persons etc.
To summarize:
a) rapid decline of Catholic demographics
b) leftist activists (LGBTQ etc) will never be happy with only rainbow flags. They really want defunding.
c) rapidly declining support for funding because of residential schools etc. Some party will use this for electoral victory
d) debt crisis and aging population will cause financial problems for province. People will use this to argue for defunding Catholic schools.
This blog calls for vouchers and support for various methods of schools. This is done in most of Europe!
Parishes and parents should start preparing for US style “parochial schools” with classical Catholic curriculum
https://www.archbalt.org/classical-approach-education-gains-momentum-among-catholic-schools/
This neo-racist material is taught in all Ontario school boards (in various ways). Between these lessons and LGBTQ lessons, children’s minds will be so warped by even Grade 6.
https://www.hwdsb.on.ca/about/equity/learn-disrupt-rebuild-hwdsb/
We all know that the pastoral “priest” letter is largely a joke. Very few of the 4000 teacher attend mass and believe in the entire Catechism.
Teacher candidates parish shop and find someone to sign this form (often St Joe’s in Sandy Hill)
The following is a new job posting from OCSB. reference to pastoral letter as “optional” (even if it is a joke)
We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, persons with disabilities, people from gender diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities, as well as others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.
(are traditional Catholics allowed? or is that that not covered under diversification of ideas?)
OCSB recently quietly changed their Teacher Hiring policy in March 2021. Reference to the Pastoral Letter is not there
The “Catholicity” policy is up for change this calendar year. The Board never announces what they propose to change, they just quietly change it. I wonder if Pastoral Letter will become optional???
This is simply “truth in packaging” and confirms what is going on daily inside classrooms with rainbow lessons, rainbow flags, GSAs, etc
Parents and priests can no longer be in denial. All is exposed now.
There were 15 presentations, including by the Archbishop. 11 were opposed and were quite eloquent. Erin Kinsella made a particularly good presentation. The Archbishop was given a mere 180 seconds to speak and spoke very well..
The 4 speakers in favour were:
– NDP MPP Harden
– a queer non-Catholic mom with a a trans kid in an OCSB school
– the head of Ottawa OECTA
(She was/is the “roommate” of former OCSB chair: https://catholicintelligenceblog.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/ocsb-chair-and-her-oecta-boarder/ )
– a parent of 2 trans kids in OCSB (unclear whether he was a Catholic ratepayer)
The speeches by the 9 trustees in favour afterwards were like they never heard ONE concern. It was all about diversity, inclusivity, equity (DIE) and the board’s “strategic plan” of “Be Community”. It was very repetitive. blah blah blah and they spoke at the Grade 4 level and like United Church folks. Trustee Curry said this had NOTHING to do with Catholic teachings – it was all about doing right for students in a publicly funded board.
Twitter is now packed with OCSB teachers celebrating (with rainbow profile pics etc) —
Parents and Priests and the Archdiocese now have choices. Will a priest enter a school with a Rainbow flag flying? Will grad masses be said in schools in June or will parents and students be told why the mass cannot be said in the school? Will priests ever enter an OCSB school?
Will parents force their kids to march under the power of the Rainbow flag for a month in June?
Will parents and grandparents and priests and Bishops and CWL and KofC and all faithful Catholics start ACTIVELY helping independent schools and homeschool groups? Will we move to the American model with solid parochial classical Catholic schools? Can we call the experiment from over the last 35 years with full funding from Caesar a failure and start over?
Sacred Heart of Jesus, Pray for us
PS: Niagara and Durham “catholic” school boards also voted tonight to fly rainbow flags. A clean sweep.
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawa-catholic-board-to-fly-pride-flag-over-its-schools
This is happening now at the TCDSB for “Pride month”
The sexual assault propaganda has already begun at the TCDSB | Everyday For Life Canada
PPS: video of mtg: https://youtu.be/pCDQwOn-Trc
Erin Kinsella spoke well at 1:01hrs
The Archbishop spoke eloquently after at 1:05hrs
The mtg went to 10:15 pm. The board had prepped a press release before the mtg and released it at 10:25 pm
https://www.ocsb.ca/2021/05/25/press-release-motion-may-25-2021/
In 1964, in his early 30s, Milk began a relationship with Jack McKinley, a theatrical stage manager who was 16 years old when they met in New York.
The age of consent in California is 18OCSB also has secret Gay Straight Alliances mtgs for elem kids with no parental approval required.
the French Catholic Board (CECCE) was flying rainbow flags outside today because of IDAHOBIT Day. Expect them outside for all of June. Truth in Advertising – it just tells ppl what is going on INSIDE the buildings year-round.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, Pray for us.
She is a radical proabortion LGBT activist who hates everything about the Catholic Church.
She is the minister of Trinity St Paul’s UNITED!
Will TCDSB invite Michael Coren the following month to tell teachers how wrong Catholic beliefs are??
TCDSB should be renamed TADSB or TUCDSB (Anglican or United Church)!!
We have known for a long time that a large majority of #oecta teachers hate Catholic Church teachings as expressed in the Catechism.
Now, there is “truth in advertising” outside schools for June. It simply shows what has been going on inside “catholic” schools for years. Classes have oecta rainbow flags and bling. Teachers and schools have rainbows on their social media profiles.
No parents or priests can pretend that TCDSB schools are spiritually safe for children.
See below:
#ottnews #ocsb #tcdsb Ontario “#catholic” schools have identical moral results to public schools
#OECTA & Pride Parade & Sisters of Joy #catholicteachers #tcdsb @archtoronto
former #OECTA Prez declares Saint Pope JP2 wrong on Gay Pride. #obnoxious #tcdsb @archtoronto #catholic #prolife
#OECTA EGALE partnership was about Genderbread not “bullying”. @archtoronto #tcdsb
As a followup to the new teacher-initiated Gay Straight Alliance at St Stephens called Rainbow Alliance for ages 9-12, the following email exchanges occurred between a friend and the Director of Education.
Some points to notice:
It is simply not safe to send your child to an OCSB school. You have NO idea what they will be indoctrinated into at these secretive GSAs!
Please share with other parents and your priest etc.
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Respecting Differences document
http://www.archtoronto.org/pdf/RespectingDifference.pdf
General Procedures for “Respecting Difference” Groups or Activities in Schools:
i. All activities and organizations should be opened to all students
who wish to participate;
ii. The activities and organization of all groups or organizations
formed within Catholic schools must be respectful of and consistent
with Catholic teaching;
iii. All mentors appointed to work with groups of students must know
and be committed to Catholic teachings;
iv. Any outside speakers must be respectful of Catholic teaching.
Is Ms O’Brien committed to official Catholic Church teachings on homosexuality and transgender? (CCC 2357 to CCC2359)
Let’s look at the Respecting Differences document that the OCSB has promised to follow with respect to GSAs. It is VERY clear what Catholic Church teachings are and what a GSA must follow!!
RD document:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2TLzexuT2V9VGRDNW9KVHpsSWc/view
a) The Catholic Church and Morality The primary teaching document of the Catholic Church is the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) is essentially a guide for how to live as a good Catholic. It is to this resource that we should turn whenever we are seeking guidance on any particular issue, although we should always remember that the Catechism is an authoritative précis, not a complete exposition, of Catholic teaching. There are sections in the catechism that pertain to what Catholics should believe (Part 1: Profession of Faith), how we should worship (Part 2: Celebration of the Christian Mystery), how we should act (Part 3: Life in Christ), and how we should pray (Part 4: Christian Prayer). The topic of homosexuality is found in Part 3: Life in Christ. This is the section of the catechism that concerns morality. The Church’s teaching on homosexuality is an extension of its teaching on human sexuality in general. In order to more fully appreciate the topic of homosexuality, it is necessary to situate the discussion within the broader context of the meaning and purpose of human sexuality
b) Prior to an initial meeting, the principal shall: i. Carefully consider selection of staff advisor to monitor and support the [GSA] group. The staff advisor MUST be an individual who is knowledgeable about and committed to Catholic teaching.; ii. Invite the chaplaincy leader to participate in group meetings, where possible; iii. Clarify the objectives of the group with the staff advisor before meeting with students: See relevant normative policy guidelines including, but not limited to, the 2004 document Pastoral Guidelines to Assist Students of Same-Sex Orientation and the 2011 CCCB statement by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops “Pastoral Ministry to Young People with Same-Sex Attraction”. iv. Provide In-Service for staff advisor(s) regarding the purpose of the student group and how the group can be supported;
c) Guidelines for “Respecting Difference” Groups 1. All materials whether for group use or for school/community awareness must be reviewed and approved by the staff advisor and administration. 2. All students involved in a Respecting Difference group must agree to strict privacy guidelines including restrictions of all personal electronic devices during meetings, posting on social media sites or breaking of confidentiality of any discussion held in meetings. Failure to do so may result in the suspension of any such group and/or group member. 3. The staff advisor must be present for all meetings from beginning to end;
d) General Procedures for “Respecting Difference” Groups or Activities in Schools: i. All activities and organizations should be opened to all students who wish to participate; ii. The activities and organization of all groups or organizations formed within Catholic schools must be respectful of and consistent with Catholic teaching; iii. All mentors appointed to work with groups of students must know and be committed to Catholic teachings; iv. Any outside speakers must be respectful of Catholic teaching.
What does the Youcat say about homosexuality?
Please respectfully write the OCSB Director and ask whether this ELEMENTARY school GSA is following Respecting Differences and do they follow CCC 2357 to CCC2359 (and the ICE document on Transgender). Please copy the Archbishop: reception@archottawa.ca
As a follow-up to this post, https://catholicintelligenceblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/04/critical-theory-in-catholic-schools/
CRT/CT is racing through North American schools, Catholic parishes and Evangelical groups..
Please see these links and podcasts and websites.
Please share!!
Christopher F. Rufo | City Journal (city-journal.org)
https://everydayforlifecanada.blogspot.com/2021/01/white-fragility-or-toxic-racial-myth.html
Search the Crisis Magazine for Critical Theory stories:
What Is ‘White Christianity’ Anyway? | The American Conservative
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/02/evangelicals-and-race-theory
WaPo Op-Ed Blames ‘Multiracial Whiteness’ for Trump’s Historic Gains with Minority Voters (thefederalistpapers.org) (Chinese-Americans and Indo-Americans etc are actually white lol)
What Is Critical Race Theory? – New Discourses (Atheist, but has good analyses of CRT)
Restoring a Broken System with TCDSB Human Rights and Equity Advisor Lavinia Latham (buzzsprout.com)
How long will the Catholic School System remain Catholic? | scrapbookwithtony (wordpress.com) (ontario; govt run)
Critical Theory has long been in some university faculties. Now, it is spreading with mandatory courses in STEM faculties. Also, spreading with mandatory indoctrination sessions in governments and corporations.
It is also spreading rapidly in “catholic” schools in Ontario under the guise of social justice and diversity/inclusiveness/equity (DIE).
In Catholic schools, you will rarely hear it called Critical Theory (or critical race theory crt or frankfurt school or neo-marxism or “woke culture”, or grievance studies or intersectionality) but it is exactly that.
We urge parents and priests to take the time to read about it and protect yr children!!
Resources:
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/tag/critical-theory/
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/08/first-church-of-intersectionality
New book: Tan books: Awake, Not Woke. Noelle Mering . March 2021. https://americanmind.org/features/ending-the-blm-revolution/the-woke-mob-plays-god/
https://www.newsforum.tv/videos/cp053 TanyaGranic with Queens prof
https://archive.is/PVPCG (Catholic Insight)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1308214911412178944.html
https://juicyecumenism.com/2020/02/11/critical-race-theory/
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-roots-and-reach-of-critical-race-theory/
Rod Dreher on Christian Survival
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7314
To learn more specifically about critical theories, Frankfurt School, cultural marxism, BLM, CRT critical race theory, critical social justice , white fragility privilege, etc, there are good youtube videos by James Lindsay. He happens to be atheist, but his analsyis is good
Great fun twitter page to follow: Woke Temple
has she reported the 5 sexual predator teachers to the police and the OCT?
She really hates the Catholic faith.
The comment about pink below is about Cardinal Collins and him not deserving to be in a TCDSB classroom.
Should she be on the diversity committee?
When trustees side with ex-Catholic Coren over the Cardinal, wouldn’t alarm bells be going off in their heads that they are wrong? Do they hate the Catechism as much as Coren?
The trustees support deBuono who believes
A) the Cardinal is wrong
B) the Cardinal is merely a guest of the Board
C) the term ” thru a Catholic lens” is dangerous (term came from the Archdiocese)
D) Catholics should stop donating to their parishes.
E) the Cardinal doesnt care about children.
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Why do these hate the Catechism so much? Would they vote against a motion supporting the Catechism?
Have they read Vatican 2 documents on education? Gravissimum Educationis
Do they agree with the ICEOnt document on transgender?
Will the dissident trustees publicly and formally repent and apologize? will OECTA? Part of repentance is formally stating that the catechism is not homophophic, respects human rights, and that you agree with it in its entirety!!
If not, is this the beginning of the end of govt run Catholic schooling in Ontario? Already many priests are recommending homeschooling and small independent schools for believers.
Will we move to BC model of govt paying for 50% for independent Catholic schools as we move into post-pandemic austerity with $500B prvcl debt?
Is the genderbread TCDSB finished or will it fully repent?
There should be more CONTEXT with school case numbers. What is community infection rate. What is school age infection rate. Any hospitalizations of teachers or kids? low number of oubreaks compared to cases is a success!!
Also, the term “outbreak” is too loaded. The defn in Ontario is so low and scares people. Even with the low threshold of calling a “outbreak”, less than 10% of case in schools are declared outbreaks.
Starting August 26 2020, 2 student or staff (or visitor) cases of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 within a specified class within a 14-day period where at least one case COULD have reasonably acquired their infection at school (including transportation and before/after school care) is considered an outbreak in an educational establishment.
In contrast, places like BC and England do not call 2 cases in a class an outbreak. It is called a cluster. Outbreaks are much bigger. BC calls them exposures, clusters, and outbreaks. (And the UK and BC do not send kids home for a runny nose!!
As well, France doesnt even close a class till there are THREE CASES in a class.
UK:
Let’s see what BLM believes
We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).
Also see this posts by Father Longernecker and Dr Janet Smith
https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/black-lives-matter-whats-a-parent-to-do
These books should NEVER be in Catholic schools, but during COVID when the $$ could be used for things like air purifiers, they go and buy books like these for their libraries. PRIORITIES! Gender diversity over clean air!
These books are in no way compatible with Catholic Church teaching! i dare OCSB to ask the Archbishop!!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RdeJqpl81ZQvWdPeBdYPXksPNyRrZfEKi_qHQtzyPy4/edit#slide=id.g90eac49921_0_63
Books: When Aidan Became a Brotherhttps://www.amazon.ca/When-Aidan-Became-Brother-Lukoff/dp/1620148374/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=When+Aidan+Became+a+Brother&qid=1599092114&sr=8-1
I Love My Pursehttps://www.amazon.ca/Love-My-Purse-Belle-DeMont/dp/1554519543/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=i+love+my+purse&qid=1599092145&sr=8-1
My Mommy My Mama My Brother and Mehttps://www.amazon.ca/My-Mommy-Mama-Brother-Me/dp/1771087412/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=My+Mommy+My+Mama+My+Brother+and+Me&qid=1599092212&sr=8-1
My Princess Boyhttps://www.amazon.ca/My-Princess-Boy-Cheryl-Kilodavis/dp/1442429887/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=my+princess+boy&qid=1599092236&sr=8-1
The Gender Wheelhttps://www.amazon.ca/Gender-Wheel-School-Story-Bodies/dp/1945289139/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=gender+wheel&qid=1599092263&sr=8-1
They He She Me Free to be Mehttps://www.amazon.ca/They-She-He-Me-Free/dp/1945289090/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=They+He+She+Me+Free+to+be+Me&qid=1599092286&sr=8-1
It really looks like they copy and pasted virtually all of last year’s budget
As well, their advertising budget remains huge in order to lure students from other Boards.
This is financial mismanagement during the pandemic. A fine tooth comb review is required and they used NO comb!!
Parents seem to think that they have almost 5 weeks to decide between full time in-class or remote learning. They also think they can flip back and forth over the fall.
Nope. Cut-off decision dates are about 15 days away. And you must commit for entire semester. (BTW, Quebec has no masking and no remote learning option at all. BC has no masking and is spending half per capita extra on Covid matters).
Principals are not expected to give school-specific details until 2 weeks before school (ie. After deadline).
Learning at home will be similar to spring with a bit more video learning. However, the teachers doing it will generally be older teachers who may be less tech savvy.
https://www.ocsb.ca/distance-learning-option-for-families-september-2020/
For staffing and planning purposes, we ask families who choose full-time distance learning as the September option to commit to three months (September – November) for elementary students and Semester 1 (September- January) for high school students.
and…
https://www.facebook.com/notes/ottawa-catholic-schools-ocsb/update-on-return-to-school-july-9-2020/3211259588930929/?comment_id=3214685618588326
(after the choice deadline:)..
“Principals will provide an update to all parents and students two weeks before the start of the school year. They will outline school safety precautions and provide detailed information related to your child’s school”
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Ontario govt:
Given the requirement to carefully assign students to classes, and to cohorts with alternating schedules, the typical ability of schools to accommodate late registrations will not be viable for the coming school year.
School boards maintain robust registration processes throughout the summer, although many students and families do register at the very beginning of the school year. This can lead to walk-in timetabling and irregular class sizes up until the September reorganization compliance date.
For the upcoming school year, the ministry will support firm cut-off dates for school registration, to support boards in achieving a safe and predictable school year start-up. Students and families seeking to register past these cut-off dates will have to wait to be assigned to a school, class and timetable.
Pre-registration would need to be widely communicated to parents for awareness and could require a declaration of whether parents wish in-school instruction or remote learning.
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CBC:
School boards are allowed to wait-list students and families who do not pre-register by a cut-off time established by the board. Boards will be able to offer these students and families remote learning until an appropriate class placement can be provided.
They can also set restrictions on the ability of students to transfer between remote learning and in class learning.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tFRh6dMCumT4L5_nKnT9YURYFf_Ar-jz/view
for next yr, you will find $80K for renting a room at Shaw center for a half day PD day for 4000 teachers. Also money for principals retreat. Hundreds of thousands for advertising and marketing to steal students from other school boards. So much more!!
Take the time to go over yr school board $$ to find money for hand sanitizers, etc!! Be informed.
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/ecological-1-gallon-hand-sanitizer-gel/6000201696909
related:
2020 #OCSB budget released – lots of gravy. #ottnews #onted #ottawa #ottcity
the whole 1st medical section is useless. The Pediatricians at HSC have read all these articles and 50x more. THEY are the medical experts who will set guidelines and the school boards will have 2 months to implement and tweak. Classrooms will not be smaller. Parents and Teachers should listen to PAEDIATRICIANS!!
The other demands are really me me me. Don’t touch our contract, don’t make teachers spend any extra on safety for students (eg. 5 min wipedown of desks), and give the system A LOT more $$. We now have an LTC/Hosp premier after 12 years of self-described “education premiers”.
What about the $300M spent in bussing over last 3mos for NO bussing? What about savings in the fall from no/less intervarsity sports. What other savings can be found and redirected?? Enough of the more more more. We are $400B in debt and need to spend dollars on LTCs immediately.
As usual, the cancel EQAO hobbyhorse is promoted again. EQAO is needed more than over to see how much actual insttuction was done this year and whether teachers focus on Arithmetic and Reading and Writing next yr (as opposed to “fun topics”)
The section on special ed kids is interesting. A zero tolerance rule for covid dangerous behaviour should be implemented. Immediate suspension for spitting etc. Wear face shields spec ed teachers!!
Read the last week of this PDF put out by 4 staff (3 teachers and an EA) for a Grade 6 class. The teaching output is 3 short videos, a googlemeet video chit chat and a short pdf in an entire week.
The students are asked to put in 15 mins per day in Math and English each.
Their math is this level:
Meanwhile, fearful teachers are refusing to go back into their empty classrooms next week.
“Traumatized” teachers have no intention to focus on academic fundamentals next year. Phrases like “building relationships again this fall”, “trauma informed education”, “heavy emphasis on Social Emotional learning” are bandied about oñ twitter and in education journals. Kids will learn little next year!! (Esp if there is a 2nd or 3rd wave!)
We need accountability and transparency and reports from school boards as to how much the teachers are actually teaching!! At the elementary level, how many hrs of live video? How many hrs of recorded video? How many hrs on phone with parents or students?With school buildings closed, creating accountability through transparency might seem daunting. But even though principals can’t visit classrooms, schools and districts can do quite a few things to make their actions more transparent to state education agencies, parents, and the public. In Education Next, Chester Finn has suggested a few examples, such as reporting the number of students who complete their remote assignments and the number of students with disabilities whose families participate in individualized education program meetings by teleconference.
Schools and districts will need to take the lead on these kinds of accountability, because state education agencies rarely have access to the relevant data. Schools and districts can use two general approaches to make themselves accountable through transparency while their physical facilities are closed:
1. Document and report exactly what they are doing to help all students continue learning from home. What resources are they providing, and how are they providing them? What are they doing to ensure access for students with disabilities, students without reliable Internet access, and students without computers? What are their expectations for their teachers? Fortunately, many districts are already doing some of this, though with widely varying depth and specificity (as the database of district plans assembled by the Center on Reinventing Public Education shows).
2. Count successful engagements with students and start reporting these numbers. Some of Finn’s examples fall into this category. State agencies and the public ought to know not just how many laptops a school district has distributed but also how many students have successfully logged into the relevant systems and how frequently they have done so—a pretty clear and direct analog to conventional attendance.
interesting survey results. I wonder what Ontario parents are like;======Ontario Schools are spending $100M/mo on school bussing still! What large cost savings have they looked for in order to get more and more technology out to families. A chromebook costs $250.======Excellent journalist to follow:
1) article by 2 Penn. teachers against their union:2) Torstar editorial3) NEU union in UK4) attached. Regg Cohn opinion piece5) Thin skinned teachers attack Pulitzer prize winner.
There are 200000 education workers in Ontario costing taxpayers $5B over the 3 months of closure.
Have you heard of anything more than links and worksheets being sent out along with a weekly fun get together video call?
In contrast, see what Australia and UK are doing:
Or this one teacher in UK:
Meanwhile, this study shows kids will be half to a FULL year behind when they go back to school in September
It is amazing how teachers unions and school boards showed NO concern about how gsuite google non core services could be violating privacy rights of students (gsuite made their easier),
but now the teachers unions are HUGELY concerned about privacy issues with google video hangouts and google classroom (dont really want to actively teach in next 10 weeks!!)
April 15 Hour 1. From 11mins onward. Oecta Prez Liz Stuart
https://www.1310news.com/audio/the-rob-snow-show/
To followup from the last 2 days’ posts on the $5B being spent for wages, today we get confirmation the UNION has said no live video teaching permitted
Why is the union even setting policy?? Any restriction should only come from the professional college: Ontario College of Teachers. Unions should not be interfering in this pandemic!! The Information Privacy Commissioner has made NO statement against live video teaching.
Let’s look at Liz’s excuses for no live video teaching:
“Equity” – live classes can be recorded and sent out to kids who cannot attend live. (All classes should be recorded and archived anyway in case someone produces a “deep fake” video)
Privacy of kids: all cameras can be turned off by the instructor in apps like Cisco Webex. All mics can be muted. Or they can be off as default and only turned on individually if the student AND teacher wants.
Privacy of teacher: is it too much to ask someone making $95K per year to go into quiet room or put up a backdrop for $30?
All teachers should be doing is providing “connection with kids”: $5B for essentially no teaching and especially no teaching of NEW material?? We have heard that any teachers that actually are using live video are not actually teaching, just group chitchats (“connection”).
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Publicly funded charter in NYC (12000 dead from Covid) is doing a fantastic job with video teaching. As well, many of the 1500 independent schools in Ontario (95% of them are very modest, non-elite) have answered the challenge!
Their students are 93% minorities and 80% poor!
Parents should be outraged at OECTA!! When will OCSB come clean with parents and tell them to expect little from teachers over next 10 weeks (schools were announced closed a month ago)
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Toronto TDSB does live teaching:
Very good article by top notch education reporter Jacquie Miller
Time for some honest STRAIGHTFORWARD answers from school boards to parents and taxpayers!!!!
Here is a publicly funded charter school system in NYC – a city devastated by Covid19. Their students are 93 percent of color, and 78 percent from low-income households
For grade 4 and up, they have SEVERAL video classes per day.
https://www.successacademies.org/education-blog-post/coronavirus-faqs/
https://www.successacademies.org/robertsoncenter/
In contrast, here is one grade 6 ocsb class. No video classes, minimal work. Another blog had 1hr of class video but it was more for social work and a check-in and way for kids to “see” each other. ie no instruction.
https://sites.google.com/a/ocsb.ca/5-6-wakefield/
Both OECTA and OSSTF say no “live teaching”. So do not expect any zoom or google hagout video mtgs where thè teacher teaches ANY material!
We are paying $5B in wages to education workers for chitchat cideo mtgs and worksheets to be sent out.
In the last 2 weeks, there were lots of cute photos and videos telling kids that teachers miss them. Also tons of tweets on teacher self-care.
OCSB has 4000 employees and costs taxpayers over $10M/week (over 80% of that is wages).
Let’s see how many views teachers did of their own Learning Technology youtube channel. Less than 200 subscribers (5% of staff). The most viewed video only had 166 views! Most had about 10 or 20.
Are the teachers really ready for eteaching? Have they even tried to learn some new skills over the last 2 weeks?
Update: cbc reports that bus contracts are paid regardless of whether buses run and drivers get paid 75%. Bus companies do have fixed expenses but the contracts should be reduced by 33% by emergency order. Therefore $100M savings
School boards will spend over $5B over next 3 months in labour costs. SURELY, this can be reduced 10% by less hours or some layoffs (sparing low income like ECEs)
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Ontario spends $1B on school busing. If schools are closed for rest of year, the Ministry should reduce school board funding by $350M to pay for elearning
– 300,000 chromebooks @ $200 is $60M
– LTE hotspots for rural kids till Sept
– etc
As well, gym teachers, shop teachers and 20% of all non-classroom staff AT ALL LEVELS should be laid off IMMEDIATELY (viceprincipals, superintendents, diversity advisors, etc etc). This money should also be redirected back the provincial government. Perhaps some more layoffs May 1. Money can be used for more elearning and 1yr only extra staff to help vulnerable kids in 2021/2022.
Also, a lockout of OSSTF if they dont accept same offer as OECTA.
See twitter stream (may be deleted later). Doug Little – teacher active at OSSTF HQ over last 6 years.
BTW, Flipped Classroom are very similar to elearning.
School boards and unions have been doing a poor job of getting post March break learning ready
Good 45mins video (starting at 2mins) https://t.co/Fmnux2yEWK?amp=1
Receiving Eucharist on Tongue:
https://wdtprs.com/2020/03/coronavirus-redemptionis-sacramentum-92-communion-on-the-tongue-and-you/
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Mark Mallett video
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Bring your own Holy Water bottle to Mass!
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The major poll by the Toronto Star shows people want teachers to accept the 1%/23 offer. Columnist Martin Regg Cohen also says this. Teachers are furious and are attacking the Star and parents on twitter. They don’t want to believe the poll because Nick Kouvalis did it but the Star paid for the poll and designed the questions.
This drop in support is the REAL reason why OSSTF has stopped picketing for next few weeks!
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https://twitter.com/Dr_FarrisD/status/1236251601989443585?s=19
Containment is futile:
https://nationalpost.com/health/coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic
US School boards are doing a MUCH better job.
Look at the good work in Seattle:
https://www.nsd.org/northshorelearns/students
Click to access northshore-learns-parent-information.pdf
Click to access northshore-learns-parent-information.pdf
They are addressing any computer or internet access issues and working woth local businesses with wifi etc etc.
From Ontario school boards: NOTHING!! If schools are closed for 3 weeks will they do anything or just throw up their hands and say “elearning is not for everyone”?? Are they afraid students will like it too much??
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BTW, TVO offers great elearning courses: https://ilc.tvo.org/en-ca/ilc-courses
as do school boards:
https://www.ocsb.ca/e-learning/
But teachers continue to strike because it is proposed that elearning be opt-out!! Teachers insult parents by believing they won’t come in to the school once in 4 yrs for a quick opt-out mtg. It is really about job protection!!
PPS: Multiple learning styles is totally debunked! No evidence – an “edu fad”
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687/
Google Scholar Learning Styles
CIA Blog 