About child activists
Re: What are we doing to kids?, Terence Corcoran, Sept. 24
Thank you for pulling together the various educational strands creating the current frantic teenage climate gurus.
Most people, including my educator friends, have little idea of how pervasive the new indoctrination regime is.
As a retired educator I am aghast at the ease with which the Henry A. Giroux ideology spread across Canada, and what that says about the gullibility of the educational establishment.
Keep up the good fight for balance and sanity in Canada.
Adrian Guldemond, Ancaster, Ont.
Terence Corcoran makes many good points. But I want to know if we’ve forgotten everything that’s come before? This is certainly not the first time youth has risen up. Maybe they’re getting younger, but that’s society today. Elementary school kids carry cellphones and day planners. Their lives are a complicated series of never-ending activities. Is that a normal childhood?
I remember growing up as a gen-xer child terrified of nuclear war on a daily basis. It was in the news, on TV shows, there were movies made about it. That passed, eventually, I guess. Did we carry day planners then? No. Were there activities after school? Sure. We either bused or walked together to them. We even ... went to the playground to play sports on our own!
I also read about the sad state of the economy when it comes to millennials. I don’t remember it being easy for my generation to find jobs. Our parents suffered through the ’80s recession and we then continued to suffer through the ’90s and early 2000s.
I’m just saying, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Things just look different. I guess that’s because of the “me’” generation and the rise of social media platforms where all problems become amplified for everyone to see.
Rosanna Massimi, Herring Cove, Nova Scotia
Terence Corcoran failed to mention that this is a result of children being exposed to films like “An Inconvenient Truth” that have been shown in all schools without any reservation! Now we see the consequences.
Would somebody have the courage to investigate this irresponsible action by our education system?
Allan Spector, Toronto