Time Immortal

Recently, we learned that Catholic education in Ontario does a better job of preparing children for life in the world, and that it likewise outperforms the Ontario public school system in terms of helping children “overcome the demographic roadblocks to learning.”

Any sane person would, I hope, see that as a call to bolster the performance of the public school system.

But this being Ontario — the happy land of bass-ackwards — the call has instead gone out to “correct [the] injustice” of “a separate Roman Catholic school system.”

Because, of course, it’s far better to drag students back down into an underperforming public school system than to try and improve the performance of the public system so that it — and its students — can remain competitive.

Update: Jay’s take on this is too good not to mention:

Little buggers are outperforming the Prot/secular schools. That’s so unfair…I mean the Ctholics have nuns and all.

Occasionally people will ask us why we home school…er, well, because the industrial school system is not actually about learning. It is about keeping the kids as dumb as possible. Imagine having to watch “” five times a semester. Imagine having to be graded on collages. Imagine getting highschool credits for being able to work a mouse, (a skill my four year old has had for two years). Imagine schools where learning to share is more important than learning to write. Imagine taking as long as the slowest kid in the class to learn to read. Welcome to the industrial school.

Also, I can tell that I’m an engineer. Toward the end of his post, Jay is talking about the speed of sound, and what Mach 7 would represent in G’s. To which I immediately thought: over what span of time?