Ontario eliminated grade 13, which reduced post-secondary time and costs but then they added 2 years of full-day kindergarten many say to provide jobs despite declining student enrolment. Read about the government's DECLINING ENROLMENT WORKING GROUP.
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SUBSIDIZED DAYCARE = SUBSIDIZED PROFITS = CORPORATE WELFARE (broken link)
SUBSIDIZED DAYCARE = SUBSIDIZED PROFITS = CORPORATE WELFARE: Quebec daycare economists promote the Quebec daycare system because it increases labour supply and thus lowers wages which increases business profits. They also endorse neo-liberal/neo-conservative "trickle down theory" asserting that "eventually" this…
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News: Waterloo Record on how full-day kindergarten makes things worse for kids.
Oct 2013 Waterloo Record article by Maclean's editor: How full-day kindergarten makes things worse for kids. This article exposes the lies told by the Ontario government about their studies of all-day kindergarten PDF: How full-day kindergarten makes things worse for…
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Gordon Neufeld on Roles of the Family and State
UN report on women’s unpaid care work as a human rights issue (broken link)
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Critical Legal Thinking: "White Feminists Fatigue Syndrome"
October 21 posting at Critical Legal Thinking: "White Feminists Fatigue Syndrome" second-wave feminism critiqued by feminists who honour unwaged family care work: Kids First has long been aware that the elite feminists who dominate our government women's and family policy…
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Family and Home Network: paper on “Campaign for Inclusive Family Policies” (broken link)
Family and Home Network is a US sister-organization to Kids First. Here is their excellent paper on Campaign for Inclusive Family Policies (broken link)
The Guardian: How feminism became capitalism’s handmaiden – and how to reclaim it.
October 2013 article in The Guardian: How feminism became capitalism's handmaiden - and how to reclaim it. A movement that started out as a critique of capitalist exploitation ended up contributing key ideas to its latest neoliberal phase
Oct 10, 2013 Media release: Child Care Poll: Parents’ Group Calls for Fair Democratic Child Care Funding (broken link)
Media release: Burnaby, Oct 10, 2013Kids First Parent Association of Canada is calling for fair child care policies that reflect what Canadians want. A solid majority of highly educated Canadians say that parental child care is best, according to the…
Sept 2013: Hamilton Spectator article – Kids First quoted
Sept 2013 Hamilton Spectator article - Kids First quoted "Full-Day kindergarten is merely glorified babysitting" Kids First Parent Association of Canada is not impressed with the move toward all-day kindergarten. "There is not one peer-reviewed empirical study of long-term outcomes…
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Sept 2013: The Telegraph newspaper – UK coalition says The Government should stop intervening in early education
Sept 2013: The Telegraph newspaper - UK coalition says The Government should stop intervening in early education. Letter signed by many experts says evidence supports more play and later formal schooling
More All-Day Kindergarten Propaganda Packaged as Research
September 2013.The Ontario Ministry of Education produced yet another non-peer reviewed "study" showing 2 long expensive years of all-day Kindergarten produces slightly fewer children designated "vulnerable" using the subjective teacher-reported Early Development Instrument and that more schooling will "save" children…
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All Day K in Ontario put in despite lack of facilities and school board objections
Aug 2013 Globe and Mail article: All Day K in Ontario put in despite lack of facilities and school board objections
Why Preschool Shouldn’t Be Like School, a Slate article by Alison Gopnik (broken link)
Why Preschool Shouldn't Be Like School, a Slate article by Alison Gopnik
Education Minister Charged
Ontario's then-Deputy Education Minister charged with child porn crimes opposed police background checks for volunteers working with school kids. July 2013, Toronto Star article: Benjamin Levin criticized background checks for youth workers: The high-profile educator arrested on child porn charges…