Has NB been unfairly saddled with retarded principals?
ShepherdsDog @ Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:34 am
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/ ... oject.html
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New Brunswick's education minister has ordered the cancellation of a school assignment that asked children which lives they would save if they had to choose among different ethnic groups......
The students had three spaces in a rocket ship and they had to decide which person they would save among the following: an Acadian francophone, a Chinese person, a black African, an English person and an aboriginal person.
The students had three spaces in a rocket ship and they had to decide which person they would save among the following: an Acadian francophone, a Chinese person, a black African, an English person and an aboriginal person.
Then the dumbass principal defends this horseshit.
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Bernice Ryan, the principal of École Mont-Carmel, said she has listened to Lomax's concerns, but feels the exercise is a good one, as it is intended to show the students how to be respectful to all groups.
"Children would say, 'Well, we don't want to make any decision so we kept everyone here on the planet.' Or some of the students would say, 'Well, we've chosen to keep the three main ethnical groups in our community, which is English, French and Amerindian, because of being able to communicate,'" she said.
There's confusion over where the school assignment originated.
Ryan said the exercise was prepared by the Department of Education and is part of the curriculum. The principal said she doesn't believe the exercise is out of date, but she has passed concerns on to the district office.
However, Gerald Richard, the District 11 superintendent, said the material was not made in the Department of Education. He said he believed it was locally produced.
Richard said the district has an education specialist in humanities and he has asked that person to call the parents directly. And if the specialist can't call the parents, Richard said he will talk to them personally.
"I have to admit it really doesn't sound good. It got my attention. We contacted the school," he said. "[The] exercise will no longer be used in that school or any other school."
"Children would say, 'Well, we don't want to make any decision so we kept everyone here on the planet.' Or some of the students would say, 'Well, we've chosen to keep the three main ethnical groups in our community, which is English, French and Amerindian, because of being able to communicate,'" she said.
There's confusion over where the school assignment originated.
Ryan said the exercise was prepared by the Department of Education and is part of the curriculum. The principal said she doesn't believe the exercise is out of date, but she has passed concerns on to the district office.
However, Gerald Richard, the District 11 superintendent, said the material was not made in the Department of Education. He said he believed it was locally produced.
Richard said the district has an education specialist in humanities and he has asked that person to call the parents directly. And if the specialist can't call the parents, Richard said he will talk to them personally.
"I have to admit it really doesn't sound good. It got my attention. We contacted the school," he said. "[The] exercise will no longer be used in that school or any other school."
Yogi @ Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:38 am
The inmates are running the fucking asylum!
What was that about 'a 1000 monkey's at a 1000 keyboards'???
ShepherdsDog @ Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:56 am
hmmm let's see
Age: 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Gender: Babe, chick, woman, hottie, broad, lady, wench
Occupation: stripper, masseuse, contortionist, cook, nurse, waitress, dishwasher
Personality: slutty, sleazy, horny, lusty, sex starved, coy, easy
Reason: Need you ask?
How well thought out was this? I wasn't using my brain to do the thinking
martin14 @ Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:31 am
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
hmmm let's see
Age: 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Gender: Babe, chick, woman, hottie, broad, lady, wench
Occupation: stripper, masseuse, contortionist, cook, nurse, waitress, dishwasher
Personality: slutty, sleazy, horny, lusty, sex starved, coy, easy
Reason: Need you ask?
How well thought out was this? I wasn't using my brain to do the thinking
Age: 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Gender: Babe, chick, woman, hottie, broad, lady, wench
Occupation: stripper, masseuse, contortionist, cook, nurse, waitress, dishwasher
Personality: slutty, sleazy, horny, lusty, sex starved, coy, easy
Reason: Need you ask?
How well thought out was this? I wasn't using my brain to do the thinking
Obviously 
ummm, the correct answer is 'D', 'all of the above'.. yummy
Poor Kelly, whoever thought being Minister of Education in NB would
be such a pain in the ass job ?
Tman1 @ Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:41 am
What do they teach there in the east....???? Wow.
roger-roger @ Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:07 am
Stay classy New Brunswick...
Tman1 Tman1:
What do they teach there in the east....???? Wow.
Honestly you dont want to know, the school system here is in such a shit state its a wonder a highschool grad can even make change.
saturn_656 @ Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:12 am
I fail to see how this exercise would teach "respect", but maybe its just me...
DrJones @ Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:37 am
saturn_656 saturn_656:
I fail to see how this exercise would teach "respect", but maybe its just me...
This is unreal. They're asking kids to choose which people, based on race or nationality, they'd leave behind??? Holy crap. Sounds like something Goebbles would have been proud of.
Bibbi @ Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:29 am
The concept is almost a cliché question used in sociology to bring out and discuss stereotypes that lead to racism. The stereotypes come directly from the participants and the discussion is supposed to lead in many positive directions without preaching to the students. It is often done with adults as well.
As to the success of this approach, you would have to talk to a teacher or social worker/sociologist who has used it to initiate group discussion on stereotypes and racism.
eci @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:19 pm
Here is another idiot
Reference http://www.topix.com/forum/religion/ami ... E2JA3FTB20
Gordy Stefulic 38 : Pricipal, Burhamthorpe Adult School, Ontario, cautioned for having sexual intercourse with an 19-year-old male student on three separate occasions dating back to 2000, not only on Toronto District School Board property but also in her car near a local golf course and the apartment of a friend. A discipline committee panel held a private hearing into these incidents relating to failure to observe appropriate student/educator boundaries. Subsequently at the board’s and the student’s request that the incident not be made public it was agreed that professional psychological counseling for a period of one year be required.
She now at Etobikoke collegiate in Etobokoke
sandorski @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:29 pm
Bibbi Bibbi:
The concept is almost a cliché question used in sociology to bring out and discuss stereotypes that lead to racism. The stereotypes come directly from the participants and the discussion is supposed to lead in many positive directions without preaching to the students. It is often done with adults as well.
As to the success of this approach, you would have to talk to a teacher or social worker/sociologist who has used it to initiate group discussion on stereotypes and racism.
As to the success of this approach, you would have to talk to a teacher or social worker/sociologist who has used it to initiate group discussion on stereotypes and racism.
I remember doing a similar exercise when I was a kid. The pretence of this whole Thread is Fail. There's nothing wrong with the exercise, just people trying to make a big deal out of nothing.