Full-day Kindergarten overshadowed by proposal to fund religious schools in Ontario
We should all be glad that Kate Tennier is keeping this issue in the spotlight. Four years ago, Dalton McGuinty ran on the misguided educational proposal to increase the compulsory school age from 16 to 18. This time around, a Liberal victory would subject us to a similarly bad idea, full-day kindergarten. This fact is getting lost in the noisy debate over Conservative leader John Tory’s proposal to fund private religious schools.
This morning, I read through comment after comment posted to the Toronto Star’s website indicating that Tory’s platform was a “deal breaker” and that it alone will cause several voters to vote Liberal. I wish that before they did, they’d read Kate’s latest article published in at least two local papers, then decide for themselves which is the lesser of two evils. One will erode the public pocketbook and stands to reduce educational choice by injecting the state into religious education; the other will rob children of meaningful social interaction at a time of key cognitive development.
Please read Kate’s article here and encourage informed debate on these parties’ educational platforms. (And don’t forget there are several other Ontario parties to consider, too!)
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