Alberta Canada: School board pushing state to become full-time mummies and daddies

The Alberta School Boards Association (ASBA) is pushing the government to mandate full-time kindergarten; in other words, they want the government to become full time mummies and daddies, and these days, of course, that includes solo mothers, solo fathers, daddies and daddies, and mummies and mummies, and whatever else. Put another way, they want to start the left-wing indoctrination process earlier. At this rate, it won’t be long before they start removing babies at birth; after all, our progressives know what’s best for all. Yes, Orwell’s Ministry of Truth is here.

ASBA is, of course, citing so-called at-risk children as being the motivating factor for the move, which is very ironic as left-wingers like themselves are the very people who create the at-risk children through their own welfare policies.

In the article below, you will notice that part of their agenda is to look at policies intended to combat homophobia, etc. In respect to this, the first question one must ask is: why do they want to introduce these policies at kindergarten to kindergarten children? The answer is patently obvious; they want to get to the children before their parents have a chance to.

Read the LifeSiteNews article:

EDMONTON, Alberta, November 14, 2011 - A pro-family organization in Alberta is warning parents that an upcoming meeting of the Alberta School Boards Association (ASBA) will push for government mandated full time kindergarten, and will look at policies intended to combat so-called “homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism” in schools.

Garnett Genuis, Executive Director of Parents for Choice in Education, said the November 18-20th meeting of the ASBA will call for mandated fully-funded half-time kindergarten programming to exist everywhere in Alberta, and for mandated fully-funded full-time kindergarten to be imposed on children deemed “at-risk.”

Genuis argues that “there is no good evidence that full-time kindergarten provides any benefits.”

He cited a study commissioned by the Edmonton Public School Board which concluded, “The diminishing academic ‘returns’ of full-day kindergarten are not entirely surprising.”

“Starting with the grade four school year HLAT results, it is clear that any advantage offered to children by their full-day kindergarten experience was vastly reduced” said the study, because “full-day kindergarten cannot be expected to support children’s learning throughout their educational careers.”

The pro-family organization also argued that mandating kindergarten takes autonomy away from parents and that the motion would impose greater limitations and restriction on families deemed ‘at risk’, specifically poorer families and those from minority communities, which the group says is unfair.

Genuis notes that if parents want their children in a full-day program that is their right, but there is a difference between funding education and funding childcare.

“In our view,” Genuis states, “full day kindergarten is more about childcare than about education, so the government shouldn’t fund it with dollars that could otherwise go to classrooms where that extra injection of money would actually make a real difference to student outcomes, in those primary years where students are learning reading, math, and other basic things that they need to know.”

Brian Rushfeldt, Executive Director of Canada Family Action, said he believes that mandatory kindergarten is nothing short of a state takeover of parenting. Read more