Parenting is Political
Monday, March 12, 2018
School's Out Forever
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"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse." — Bruce Cockburn It's been a while since I've posted in this space...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016
The Current on Homework
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This morning I was a guest on the CBC Radio show The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti. The topic was homework, about which I apparently nev...
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
Elephants and Puppies
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From the Toronto District School Board's Mental Health and Well-Being newsletter : Some of the activities that wellness groups have d...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Hazardous High School?
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Not long ago, while walking down Yonge Street, I overheard two girls talking. One stopped for a moment and grabbed her friend’s arm: “So gr...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Too Much Homework, Part 3
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It's "summative" season at my kids' school—the period between March break and final exams when teachers assign labour-int...
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Sunday, March 1, 2015
Un-Sex-Ed
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I've heard talk of the "pearl-clutchers" who object to the sex-ed portion of the new Ontario Health and Physical Education cur...
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Too Much F***ing Homework, Part 2
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Four days after our unsatisfactory telephone meeting with the vice-principal, we received an email from him. He had spoken to the history te...
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