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Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Washing young brains the CHRC way: Did you know that along with being in the censorship game the CHRC is in the education game? No? Neither did I until I happened upon some scary lessons plans for Canucki teachers on the CHRC site. Here, for instance, are some lessons the CHRC would have teachers foist on impressionable Grade 7-8ers (I’ve italicized the parts that prompted me to exclaim “You gotta be freakin’ kidding me!”):
Lesson Plan (grades 7-8)
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Lesson Title: Introduction to human rights in 20th century in Canada
Teacher:
Date:
Class:
Total Duration: 1 week + 1 day
Materials: Computer lab, Internet access, copies of handouts 1, 2,3,4,( 5)
Curriculum Objectives:
Specific Objectives: To have students discover, analyse, synthesise, and integrate the evolution of human rights in 20th century Canada.
Activity 1: Launching the unit
Duration: 15 minutes
Suggested directives:
·         Launch a discussion about fairness. Ask: "Can anyone give me an example of a situation at home or at school where a dispute was settled fairly? Can anyone give me an example of an injustice they have witnessed?"
·         Brainstorm possible solutions. Write the answers on the blackboard. Ask: "How would you propose ending injustice and promoting fairness all over the country?"
·         Explain that the Canadian government has asked itself the same question throughout history. Invite the students to discover the government's response to injustice by visiting the Canadian Human Rights Commission web site (http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca).
Activity 2: Investigation
Duration: 30-45 minutes
Suggested directives:
·         The purpose of this activity is to have students explore the site. The site will become a powerful research tool once the students have become accustomed to it.
·         Tell the students they are about to go on a "scavenger hunt". Distribute Handout 1. Tell the students to scour the site to find the answers.
·         Assist the students. Students may work individually or in teams if resources are limited.
Teacher Tip: If students are lacking motivation, have them compete to see who can hand in a complete and correctly answered handout. Give prizes to those who finish 1st , 5th , 10th , 15th and 20th in order to ensure that everyone has a chance to win.
Yeah, wouldn’t want the kids to actually have to compete and possibly, you know, lose or something. So much “fairer” to reward (or punish) everyone equally (saith Marxists and Trudeaupians).
There’s more--much more--should you care to, er, investigate. As for me, here’s my proposed lesson:
Activity 3. Free Speech--Use it or Lose it
Duration: A lifetime
Suggested directives:
The purpose of this activity is to help students withstand the ideological malarkey they are being spoon fed on behalf of the state censors and other squishy multiculturalists.
Ask students if they’d prefer to live in a country where they can speak freely, or a country where they have to mind their words in case someone find them offensive.
Hammer home the point that people lose their freedom incrementally, either because they are too clueless or too apathetic to notice it ebbing away, but that once a freedom has been lost--as Canadians have de jure if not de facto lost their right to free speech--it is extremely difficult to get it back.
Teacher tip: If the students are lacking in motivation, it’s probably because their parents believe the same politically correct crap/multiculti pieties that the CHRC would have them swallow. In that case, introduce them to the ideas of some “dangerous” thinkers--Steyn, Levant, Shaidle et al.

Posted by: scaramouche at 19:26 | link | comments (9)


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#1  21 October 2009 - 02:16
 
Reason # 230498432 to home school.
Anonymous
#2  21 October 2009 - 10:27
 
I'm not sure how many teachers are actually using these lesson plans. They seem pretty lame to me (the plans, not the teachers).
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#3  21 October 2009 - 15:44
 
Two absurd concepts here; 1 That there is systemic 'injustice' exists in Canadian society beyond our egalitarian justice system that needs direct government intervention in personal affairs. 2 That meritocracy is 'unjust'. Both of these are Marxist concepts and when the lesson is taught the teacher shouls wrap herself in a red worker's revolutionary flag and place the soviet hammer and sickle logo over the maple leaf.
Anonymous
#4  21 October 2009 - 15:49
 
LOL, I was going to use the same comment as #1.

True, it is unlikely that teachers are using these.  All the more reason to be furious that your tax dollars and mine are paying some CHRC flunkie in his dark, dank office to concoct these lesson plans.
http://http://mariette.rcxp.ca//index.php?cat=3 Anonymous
#5  21 October 2009 - 16:55
 
#4 I'd rather they were thinking up lame lesson plans than, say, playing gotcha with "Nazis" on websites nobody reads and patching into some random person's phone line to cover their tracks.
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#6  21 October 2009 - 18:47
 
Re: comment #5. Too true. They could be renamed the CHRCCC: Canadian Human Rights Comradeship Curriculum Commission. New letterhead and everything.

m.k.ulrich, SK
http://mariette.rcxp.ca//index.php?cat=10 Anonymous
#7  23 October 2009 - 01:09
 
Theirs is frightening (and sickening).

Yours should be a compulsory course...

Well done.
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#8  25 October 2009 - 04:57
 

I laughed openly at the part where teachers are encouraged to keep their students motivated.  Not just because of the absurd Marxist implications of handing out prizes for dead last, but because even the CHRC can foresee the average student becoming bored to the point of coma poring over the CHRC website.

Teacher Tip: If the students begin to stab themselves in the eyes with their pencils while reading this hollow, vapid, pseudo-legalistic bunk, remove all sharp objects from the room and remind them that being spoonfed the accepted doctrines without questioning any of it is the highest form of learning and that sticking to these ideals could one day even make them Leader of the Opposition of the Canadian Government!


Anyway, what's funny about the "rewards" for 1st, 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th is that not everyone gets rewarded.  Isn't that system still unfair to 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.?  If equality is to be desired, wouldn't it make more sense giving a prize to every single student? 

But then what would become the point of a prize?  Wouldn't the concept of a prize become worthless?  After all, if everything is a reward, then nothing is a reward  Then what about the motivation problem if incentives don't really exist for doing something well?  Wait a second, I think I totally just cracked the reason why communism (and communism-lite, socialism) is doomed to failure!  This is incredible!  Somebody call Lenin and warn him not to go ahead with the revolution!

Anonymous
#9  13 November 2009 - 17:56
 
 Hi. This is John Lenin. Thanks for the call. I am canceling the revolution thanks to your fast thinking. There may be a few zealots I will be unable to recall. Please deal with them yourselves as soon as possible.
Anonymous
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