Thread by @finkledusty

🧵Education is in trouble. Someone has to fix it. I guess I'm just as good a someone as any. Here are my top recommendations for education in Canada. 1/

Promote Positive-Sum Education: Transition from zero-sum, Marxist-inspired education to a positive-sum model. Focus on resilience despite challenges, rather than incentivizing victimization. Shift from coercive mandates to “celebrate diversity” to a classical liberal approach that emphasizes “tolerating diversity.” 2/

Safeguard Free Speech: Uphold free speech principles while fostering decency and respect among students. Regulating bodies and unions must not impose restrictive speech codes on educators. Encourage open dialogue and the sharing of diverse views. 3/

Enforce Political Neutrality: Audit the entire K-12 system for political biases. Develop new curricula and teaching methods rooted in political neutrality. Address the influence of the equity doctrine as a far-left Marxist project and ensure its neutrality. Apply this standard to pedagogies and codes of conduct as well. 4/

Review Third-Party Programs: Conduct comprehensive reviews of third-party organizations involved in schools to ensure their programs are politically neutral. Fund only those programs that prioritize resilience over ideological indoctrination. 5/

Restrict Bureaucratic Influence: Prevent bureaucrats associated with radical political agendas from participating in policy, curriculum, pedagogy, and code-of-conduct reviews. Assign these tasks to vetted, politically neutral professionals. 6/

Ban Overt Activism: Disallow overt activism in schools until radical ideological elements are effectively neutralized. 7/

Enforce Accountability: School boards, trustees, teachers, and bureaucrats who fail to comply with these new standards should face dismissal. 8/

Reform Teacher Training: Ensure teacher training programs disclose the origins of teaching methods and provide a variety of pedagogical approaches. Withhold funding from programs that fail to meet these standards. 9/

Implement Data-Driven Reviews: Conduct long-term reviews of teaching methods to assess their impact on student achievement. Evaluate teacher performance based on these findings. 10/

Ensure Equity of Political Belief in Hiring: If equity principles remain, extend protections for political beliefs in the human rights code. Actively hire conservative educators to ensure ideological balance. 11/

Ban Gender Ideology: Prohibit the teaching of gender ideology and queer theory, citing potential medical and psychological harms. Uphold the principle of "do no harm" in education. 12/

Teach Controversial Topics with Balance: Require politically contentious subjects to be presented in a balanced manner. Until political neutrality is achieved, closely monitor teachers to ensure they represent a broad spectrum of viewpoints. 13/