This article is in French.
It gets straight to the heart of Quebec's education crisis. As I read through some of the comments, who would have thought Quebecers could have such a libertarian streak? There's an awful lot of calls for privatizing education in them there hills. It can't be worse than the absolute mess the government has made.
The author points out the drop out rate is beyond a problem; it's a tragedy. He also correctly points out it's a question of values as well.
It's not like the future is in good hands - recall Reagan's "Sell your bonds" after a sign that read "We're the future." He's looking more and more right with each passing day - as kids will be too stupid to solve societies problems. And don't look to parents to be part of the education process. They pay their "taxes" and don't want to be bothered with any of this. BUT, don't you dare give little Timmy retard a failing grade. Then the teacher will take a tongue lashing from the parent. So let's lower standards across the board! Let's make kids "feel" good. Let's keep tuition for post-secondary education artificially low because quality is nothing next to providing mediocre education to as many people as we can.
It gets worse of course. While parents do abdicate their effen responsibilities, some do take their jobs seriously and when they come to discipline their kids, they're taken to court where idiot judges over turn their punishments.
The bigger the welfare state, the smaller the will to achieve.
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