Though often thought of as “left-wing,” daycare and other institutional care/learning have long been aggressively promoted by the corporate right, which is not known for being “family friendly.” Check out the child policy of these organizations: The World Bank (broken…
Read More Daycare Promotion by Corporate Right and Neo-Cons/Neo-Liberals
Canadian Teens Out-Score OECD Average and Sweden on Academic Tests. See charts on page 60-64 of “Measuring Up: Canadian Results of the OECD PISA Study The Performance of Canada’s Youth in Science, Reading and Mathematics: 2006 First Results for Canadians…
Read More Canadian Teens Out-Score OECD Average and Sweden on Academic Tests
Mustard’s Contempt for Parents: “17% of parents are godawful” and only one third of us are “competent” says World Bank backed daycare lobbyist, Dr. Fraser Mustard in a Toronto Star article: Mar 26, 2007. Toronto Star - excerpts (PDF): "Canada…
Read More Mustard’s Contempt for Parents: “17% of parents are godawful”
The daycare lobby is using the “UN Convention on the Rights of the Child” to argue for more daycare. They avoid mentioning the primacy given the family and the parent-child relationship throughout the document. May 2006. report (PDF): “Canadian early…
Spending billions will add $2 TRILLION! Daycare lobby economists, often from the corporate sector, come to this fantastical "costs/benefit" conclusion largely based on the 1962 Perry Preschool Project. That's the study that found every $1 "invested" saves $7. It involved…
January 4, 2006 Last month, Scott Reid, chief of communications for the Liberal Party, repeatedly insisted that parents would "blow" the $1200/year per child 0-5 promised by the Conservative Party on beer, popcorn and videos. Another aide supported him and…
Read More Parents vs State Intervention in Child-Rearing: Clarifying our Roles
The Fund the Child Coalition is currently drafting a complaint to the United Nations regarding Canada's potential violation of the "Convention on the Rights of the Child". The Swedish parent's group, "A Child's Right to their Parent's Time" has already…
Read More Announcement of our Formal Complaint to the United Nations
The Fund the Child Coalition Canada-Wide Event for International Children’s Day was held on Nov 19-21. Read about our formal Complaint to the United Nations.Speaking Notes for the Fund the Child Press Conference (download PDF)
Top “Integration” Promoters Admit Problems and Lack of Evidence for their Policy: 2006 Paper by OECD child policy head J. Bennett, “Toward a new pedagogical meeting place? Bringing early childhood into the education system (broken link).” Integration is pushed despite…
Read More Top “Integration” Promoters Admit Problems and Lack of Evidence for their Policy:
Child Rearing by the State: The “Integration” Agenda to Merge Daycare and School Background to All-Day Schooling: Daycare Lobby Strategizing at Taxpayer Expense The OECD’s idea of All-Day Kindergarten for ages 3-5 was established in Canada with the secretive strategizing…
Read More Background to All-Day Schooling: Daycare Lobby Strategizing at Taxpayer Expense
The Politicized Science of Day Care: A Personal and Professional Odyssey: A paper (download PDF here) by Dr Jay Belsky, a leading researcher with the US NICHD who is now at the Birkbeck University of London.
November 28, 2004. Barnens Rätt Till Föräldrarnas - "Report of violation of your Convention on the Rights of the Child" (PDF)
