Thread by @youseepeeYYC

In Canada, wealthy families can place their children in expensive elite segregated schools to prevent them from getting to know the poor, and to shield them from the knowledge that the rich aren’t actually better than the poor.

Will you demand an end to school segregation?

https://twitter.com/cathmckenna/status/1504928543901368320

In Alberta, the government subsidizes these elite segregated schools to the tune of hundreds of millions every year.

This is the cancer that feeds generations of Conservative children that they are better than; and more deserving than the poor.

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https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1301268159165472768?s=21

In spite of the gross advantage and welfare granted for the wealthy, it isn’t enough for Jason Kenney. He sees secular education as an obstacle to Conservative domination over society.

#abed

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In 2019, the #UCP called for further defunding of #abed by “creat[ing] a voucher system that would provide "equal per-student funding," regardless of whether a child attends a public, separate, charter or private school, or” homeschooled.
(w/@shoffmanAB)
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

Recently the #UCP acted to divert more funding away from public education. And more.

Read this thread by @SOSAlberta. 👇

#abed #cdnpoli #onted

https://twitter.com/SOSAlberta/status/1496582302356361220

But why does Kenney (& Lagrange) want so badly to destroy the education system?

“Christian Reconstructionists have managed to mainstream their Dominionist vision within U.S. evangelicalism.”

Evangelical ideology is lobbied right here.

politicalresearch.org/2020/04/17/mis…

And who is lobbying for that ideology to be adopted in Alberta?

Why, Jason Kenney, of course.

#abed #UCPcorruption

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This is why the new curriculum is being pushed.

This is why have an ideological government intent on undermining secular education.

This is why @DrAGrace_cyhtt has to write threads explaining why that’s a big problem.

Read her thread here:
👇#abed #ableg

https://twitter.com/dragrace_cyhtt/status/1503732581740658692

This is why when the @albertaNDP highlights ways that society in Alberta is so inequitable, I ask for education to be re-examined.

You cannot have an equitable society when children are told they are better than Others in an Out-Group

#ableg #abed #cdnpoli

https://twitter.com/RachelNotley/status/1506412274210127874

You cannot have an equitable society when children are segregated from each other based on religion or wealth.

For Alberta will ever grow beyond a regressive reactionary mindset, School segregation of all kinds must be ended.

#ableg #abed #cdnpoli

https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1506483642058493952

Turning education into a for profit industry is also a neoliberal’s wet dream.

See this comment from @cpeck3:👇

https://twitter.com/cpeck3/status/1504813605744611328

Here’s an example of what private schools can do with the millions they receive from the government:

“Last spring, Webber Academy confirmed the purchase of 530 acres of land in Springbank, Alberta for the development of the Webber Academy Athletic Park.”
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What do they teach at this elite private school?

“Alberta private school sees merit in asking about ‘positive effects’ of residential schools.”

They ask about the positive effects of genocide against Indigenous people. And they get piles of government money.

#ableg #abed

https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1301307170697273344

Kenney’s key supporters believe that destroying public education and impoverishing the poor is the right thing to do. You cannot convince a zealot to back down. The #UCP is bound together by their zealotry.

See this thread for more.

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👇#ableg

https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1365159253690830848

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