Whenever you see the terms “social justice”, or “economic justice”, or “environmental justice” or any of a number of similarly specious verbiage, think progressive, left-wing indoctrination and agenda. Because that’s what it is.
It’s particularly horrendous though when you see it as applied to government-run schools, and our children. When it’s official, centrally-planned, left-wing government engaging in social-engineering, posing as “education”. Like it is in this case:
Treat phrases like that the same way you would when you here things like “public option” —which really means socialism and the government eventually driving private citizens and their private business out of town by competing against them. Or when the government speaks of “investing” in anything —which really means making someone else reliant upon government, and making government bigger, and defeating freedom and capitalism as best they can. Or “New Democratic Party” —which really means outright socialism or communism with a happy face painted on it.
These are the same people who want to create new system of taxpayer-paid, government-run national, universal, child care (and “early learning” —wink!) centers to plug your children into while you go out and earn additional tax revenues for the expanding government (lest you blow it on “beer and popcorn” instead of on your kids).
The story reads like something out of a socialist manifesto, or Barack Obama pal and self-avowed communist Van Jones’ manuals for “radically transforming America” through “community organizing”…
School board tells students to pick a ‘social justice’ cause
Toronto District School Board students will be expected to contribute more to their communities under a new ‘‘social justice action plan’’ unveiled today by education director Chris Spence.
The initiative will see every school in the board take on one local and one global social justice issue — such as poverty, equity and environmentalism — in order to “create awareness of how students can be empowered through their leadership to make a difference in their world,” according to Mr. Spence…
As if to make it quite clear I’m right, they they tacitly acknowledge they are the anointed ones who are responsible for giving your children the power —the “licence” — to do what they say are the right things, your own values be damned:
“We have 550 schools so you’re going to see 550 different responses to this call for action. It could be something around poverty in their neighbourhood or the city. It could be something around homophobia. It could be something around racism or how newcomers are treated. We really need schools to, first of all, challenge our kids. We’re giving them licence to do something.”
Get it? The government will give your kids the “licence” to think correctly (about poverty and “equity” and environmentalism, and “homophobia”!) and do right by them. They know better than you.
And soon your kids will too.
“I call it leadership by children. It’s the kids who go home and say, ‘Hey, this isn’t right. We’ve got to do something.’ That is so powerful,” Mr. Davis said.
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