Dalton McGuinty thinks kids should have cellphones in classrooms
Dalton McGuinty wants to lift a ban? What is this, opposite day?
Premier McPrude—a man who has banned everything from pesticides to pit bulls to cellphones in cars to smoking—has become the unlikely defender of cellphones in high school classrooms. Currently, the TDSB has a policy against the use of all hand-held electronic devices during class time. McGuinty claims that “Telephones and BlackBerrys and the like are conduits for information today,” and that we want the generation of the future to be well informed. Cue Whitney Houston.
Not to sound too crotchety, but we kind of think the current system makes sense. Smart phones in the hands of teenagers will mean non-stop texting, Bieber downloading, Facebook updating, porn perusing and presumably a lot of LMFAOing at the naive politico who actually thought this was a good idea (that is, @Dalton_McGuinty).
• Allow cellphones in classrooms, McGuinty says [Toronto Star]
Kids get to text in English class, but if I use my Blackberry while in endless 401 traffic I get fined. No fair.
Can Dalton get ANYTHING right? Holy crap. Let’s give our failing Ontario students yet another tool to take the focus away from what’s going on up in front of the classroom (ooops… we don’t fail kids anymore, do we? Life is the utopia that Daddy Dalton wants us to believe: we are all to be accepted for who we are in the workplace and society; nobody is prone to failure in life, because Daddy Dalton will be there to hold your hand).
Ontario is FAILING in giving my two children a proper education; instead, the concern is more about socializing and grooming them to be green citizens, who believe that dressing as a cross gender is normal, and that sex acts with opposite or same sex individuals should be taught at very early grades. Forget that stuff like arithmetic, English, science, music, art, history… who needs that stuff? Oh, and those children with autism? Let’s take all their support systems away, too, because they really aren’t in need of it; besides, the parents are equipped to handle it at their own cost.
And while we’re at it, let’s take all power away from the teachers or any authoritative figure in schools, to properly discipline the troubled and problem kids; you know — the kids who can verbally abuse and disrespect the teacher in front of the entire classroom, because that’s what it’s like out there in the real world…
Yeah, when it comes to education, Daddy Dalton has his finger right on the pulse. Moron.
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