Ray MillerB次元官网网址檚 commendable desire to better connect with more students will be wasted effort unless schools focus on teaching values for human life.

Examples of the result of lack of focus include failure to stop bullying, school boards that seem more concerned over irrelevant activism like shark fins than about students, the B.C. TeachersB次元官网网址� FederationB次元官网网址檚 attempts to force their ideology into students, high school students racing around endangering other drivers and pedestrians, misbehaviour in parks, recycling of failed teaching fads by the education ministry and confused young adults who are often violent.

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Collectivism is the cause of many failures. School boards and the BCTF are more interested in socio-economic politics than children B次元官网网址� consider for example the candidates in Saanich who ran under the recycled B次元官网网址淧rogressiveB次元官网网址� banner of the anti-mind ideology of Marxism, which teaches that contradictions are good. What a great way to teach good thinking skills for successful life B次元官网网址� not!

Attempts to stop bullying ignore individuals as targets and perpetrators. One school board moved the victim instead of firmly re-educating each perpetrator, some SD62 students fell for the B次元官网网址淜ick a GingerB次元官网网址� violence.

Who is ultimately at fault? Voters who elect school boards and the provincial governments. And teachers who blindly support the B.C. TeacherB次元官网网址檚 Federation.

Keith Sketchley, Saanich