Helen Ward, President of Kids First Parenting Association joins Kari and Ron on issues that affect your children and your tax dollars! Daycare, FaceBook and a bizarre court ruling that once again proves that judges are out to lunch when it comes to understanding public education and the agenda of a radical teacher's union.
North American children are being carefully and thoroughly groomed to be at war with their elders – us – which is all too evident any which way you look at it. Ron Gray reviews the abundant evidence of this wholesale degradation of once-honoured standards. He asks why this is being done with such aggression and gives us the very frightening answer.
Parents for Democracy in Education/March 2011
Thanks to BC Parents and Teachers for Life (BCPTL), we’ve been informed of a new propaganda booklet produced by a pro-homosexual group, Pride Education Network, that is being distributed by the teachers’ union in B.C. (BCTF). This booklet, Gender Spectrum, makes unsupported claims that gender is a “continuum”, and that normal concepts of “male” and “female” are obsolete. (We have included a copy below, so you can read their one-sided presentation for yourself.)
In contrast, Dr. Leonard Sax, author of Why Gender Matters, Boys Adrift and Girls on the Edge—a medical doctor and a PhD in psychology—has published a rebuttal to such ideas in the Journal of Sex Research (his article is also included below). We call your attention to a statement on Page 9 of Dr. Sax’s peer-reviewed study, which—after a review of the medical evidence—declares:
Such a campaign puts the health and safety of 99.98% of students at risk, for the sake of a pro-homosexual doctrine being promoted by the BCTF.
To protect their children from this barrage of propaganda promoting acceptance of sexual perversions, parents should take steps to establish clearly their wishes for the education of their children.
Bear in mind that the United Nations’ 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which Canada is a signatory, states clearly in Article 26, section 3:
Below is a copy of a Parents’ Directive document available from BC Parents and Teachers for Life at www.bcptl.org
Use (or adapt) this document, then sign and date two printed copies of it, and deliver them to your children’s school with a request that one copy be signed by the Principal and returned to you.
We think that this document is written in respectful terms yet is firm in stating the parents’ wishes. We do not take credit for the idea. Others have written similar documents. We present this as reflective of issues we feel parents should be concerned about, and hopefully reflective of the tone which such a document should have.
This document, when sent to the school, does not come from British Columbia Parents and Teachers for Life. It is only of value if it is recognized as coming from the parents who deliver it. Parents are responsible for the document when they use it. British Columbia Parents and Teachers for Life cannot be responsible for its use, and our name should not be attached to it when it is sent as a parental directive.
Should you as a parent wish to change the document in any way, you are entitled to do so. You may have other concerns which you wish to express, or you may wish to change it in some other way to suit your family’s situation. Of course, we are not responsible for any changes made. It would be well, in our view, to ensure that any changes retain a respectful tone and are carefully checked for wording before the document is delivered to your children’s school. The text of our suggested directive is given below and also on the “Help for Parents” page of this website (www.bcptl.org).
Parents’ Directive regarding education of their children
To the administrative authorities of _______________________ School in??_______________ in the province of British Columbia, regarding our children, namely:
______________________________________?__ _____________________________________
________________________________________ _____________________________________
We, the undersigned, as parents, are desirous of the welfare of our children in every aspect of their lives. We are thankful for the positive opportunities for education which are available in our country, and for teachers in our schools who generously devote their time to teaching the children and youth of our nation.
Conscious that parents are the first educators of their children and that they continue to bear a prime responsibility for their education, we are communicating the following statement of wishes regarding our children’s education. We request that this statement be kept on file in the school to which we have entrusted our children, and that it be brought to the attention of all those teachers and other staff members who will be charged with dealing with our children. We respectfully issue this statement as a legal directive to school authorities and personnel.
Holding certain principles regarding the family as the basis for our own teaching of our child or children, we desire that those principles should in no way be undermined.
We hold as an ideal the concept of the family as founded on the life-long commitment of one man and one woman to one another in marriage, and on their commitment to the welfare of their children. Nothing taught to our children in the school should undermine respect for this principle.
The school should seek the welfare of all children entrusted to it, and to the best of its ability protect all from harassment; but it shall in no way teach our children that concepts of the family diverging from our ideal are equal or superior to that ideal.
We hold to the belief that human life is sacred from conception to natural death, and nothing taught to our child or children in the school should undermine respect for this principle.
We, as parents, have signed two copies of this document as an indication of our wishes. We request that you return one copy with the signature of the school principal, as an indication of his or her having received the document. We further request that any principal succeeding the present one shall likewise sign this document.
Dated and signed this _________ day of _______________, in the year ___________ at??_________________________ in the province of British Columbia.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
“By the end of the [1990s], the largely female child-care movement was bolstered by ‘the boys’ or ‘the suits’ — men such as scientist Fraser Mustard…. Royal Bank Vice-President Charles Coffey….the World Bank and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development”. Toronto Star April 25/05
DR MUSTARD, a blood specialist, not a child or brain expert by profession along with MARGARET McCAIN of the frozen food empire, wrote the Early Years Study reports. These reports explicitly promote the WORLD BANK’s agenda for child/family policy. Although not peer-reviewed, they are used as evidence for expansion of institutional child care. Mustard founded the Council for Early Child Development (CECD). He now works for the World Bank on child policy.
THE MCCAIN foundation funds Mustard’s CECD and the Childcare Research & Resource Unit (CRRU).
The CRRU headed by MARTHA FRIENDLY, long time top daycare lobbyist. She also works for the OECD on child/family policy, and co-wrote an OECD report on child care in Canada.
CHARLES COFFEY former Vice President of the RBC. He is on Mustard’s CECD Board, and its former Chair. He also works with the World Bank on child/family policy.
HELP – Human Early Learning Partnership – is headed by DR CLYDE HERTZMAN, epidemiologist not a child or brain expert by profession. He is a long-time World Bank staff/consultant, and current president of Mustard’s CECD. HELP is funded by the BC government to build “one of the world’s largest collections” of citizens’ private data, and to produce junk science ‘evidence’ to promote institutional child care.
“The old labour-intensive way of caring for children …is no longer viable.”
Value of “stimulus” to child development from different types of child care according to daycare economists
$0 = mother and “informal” care (father, grandparent, nanny, babysitter)
$3,600 = full-time daycare centre (as opposed to care by child’s mother)
$6,000 = full-time daycare centre (as opposed to “informal” care of father, grandparent, nanny, babysitter)
“the cost to society of [mothers’ looking after their children] – essentially the loss to the labour force”
Cleveland & Krashinsky The Benefits & Costs of Good Child Care pp. 67,76, 66, CRRU paper claiming $1 spent on daycare saves $2.
Parents are important to the child development “industry” for “the economic contributions they make to the economy, as employees and consumers.” – Coffey speech to World Bank.
“The views of one articulate and affluent banker, businessman, lawyer, or acolyte economist are the equal of several thousand welfare mothers in the corridors of political power.” – Coffey quoting Galbraith, speech to World Bank
“People are very worried about the central government inculcating values in their children that they don’t agree with.”
”It’s essential that … early childhood provision doesn’t come to resemble a government bureaucracy”
Heckman supports an approach targeting the “most disadvantaged” using “vouchers …for private sector diversity and choice.” He supports programs run by “religious groups, social groups, and communities”.
“An Interview with James Heckman” pp 24-29 http://www.bernardvanleer.org/Family_stress_Safeguarding_young_childrens_care_environment
“participating in early childhood care and education programs and services at the age of 2 and 3 had little direct association with children’s home and school outcomes in Kindergarten.”
Hertzman/HELP The association of early childhood care and education to children’s experiences in Kindergarten p17
“Most licensed daycare in Canada” is of “minimal to mediocre quality.” You Bet I Care! 2 – HELP’s Goelman et al
“The challenge is… to avoid the tendency to revive the idea of family primacy over early childhood.”
“An integrated approach to early childhood education and care” links at http://www.kidsfirstcanada.org/Haddad-analysis.pdf
The goal is a “new child”, “the public child”. CRRU “The OECD and the Reconciliation Agenda: Competing Blueprints” p25
The “early child development industry” has a “business imperative” with “potential to spawn new approaches to data collection,… government policy, and advocacy.” Coffey World Bank speech