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What stood out to me in this article was:
This is why we need strong provincial policies supporting our youth, and this is something that the next 10 years I think will punish us and the US especially hard on.
Without educating and motivating our kids, we don’t have a strong economic future. Immigrants are kind of a bandaid, our youth (and the children of these immigrants) need to be engaged and motivated and educated to become ~efficient~ productive.
Fear not, in Ontario the Conservative government is slashing and burning education into the ground and making it worse for all students.
Oh sorry, you said we needed to invest in our kids futures via education. My bad.
This is partially what motivated me to post.
It is so frustrating seeing my nieces and nephews in huge ineffective classes where they check out and lose interest in the subjects they used to love.
I want kids to see the world as a place where motivation and cleverness meant you could do and be anything you wanted. It hurts my heart seeing them fall behind and feeling hopeless.
This election the conservatives have really bothered me by not even bothering campaigning.
Youth cannot vote and are often too young to realize just how valuable a free public education is (assuming that education is adequately funded). Its very important to vote in the interests of youth because they literally have no voice pollitically otherwise. As adults we can be quick to forget that we were once the youth going through school, and one day those youth may be caring for us in our old age.
Agreed, you look at how places in Asia treat the importance of education compared to how North America does and it isn't a surprise how we are falling behind all over the place. Not to say there aren't plenty of issues with how their education systems work, but with the status quo we are essentially throwing away any advantage we have over the East.