Judging by the many horn blasts I have heard in recent days outside schools and hospitals, many people support the striking teachers and health care workers.
They understand that these public system employees are certainly fighting to obtain better salaries and better working conditions, but also so that citizens receive better services and get value for their money.
Because a teacher or a nurse at the end of their tether is not working to the maximum of their abilities.
A FACTORY IN CANCRES
But last week, at QUB Radio, I received a teacher who looked at the situation from another angle.
“Of course we have to increase salaries and improve working conditions,” she said. Who is against a salary increase? Who doesn’t want better conditions?
“But the main problem with the education system is not that. Contrary to what the unions say, it has nothing to do with salary or working conditions.
“The main problem with our education system is that we are not demanding enough. We always lower the bar! We let students pass who should not pass!”
This teacher’s name is Nanda Perdomo. She was born in Colombia, and taught in Europe and New Brunswick, before settling in Quebec.
- Listen to the interview with teacher Nanda Perdomo via QUB radio :
She is appalled by the complacency of our education system.
“I’ve seen 18-year-olds who don’t know how to locate Montreal on a map of Quebec! Who do not master basic knowledge! How come? How were they able to slip through the cracks of the system and obtain their diploma?
You just have to look at Guy Nantel’s vox pops to realize that our system is a factory of dunces.
You will tell me that Nantel puts on a show. That we cannot judge the quality of our education system in light of its humorous capsules.
But I will point out to you 1) that Guy Nantel does not do his vox pops in front of taverns, but in front of educational institutions like Dawson College or UQAM.
2) That he doesn’t spend three hours finding the worst respondents.
And 3) that among its respondents who believe that Justin Trudeau is the mayor of Montreal or who do not know who wrote La Fontaine’s fables are… people who study political science or education science!
LET’S DANCE LIMBO!
Ms Perdomo is absolutely right. THIS is the big problem with our education system, and this situation has existed for decades!
It was like that before the pandemic, before the labor shortage crisis and before the integration of “heavy cases” into regular classes!
Every time I talk about this during my daily LCN segment, I play Limbo.
“Come on, let’s lower the bar, even lower, lower and lower!”
I’m laughing, but it’s not funny. It’s tragic.
Who defends excellence in education?
Bernard Drainville dared to speak of excellence, and he was attacked with all his might by… the unions, who are currently in the streets to “improve” the system!
At some point, we will have to change course. For our children. In order to equip them to better face life.
Why do you think conspiracy theories are so popular?
Because while we keep talking about artificial intelligence, natural ignorance is deployed – without shame – in our educational institutions…
Photo Agence QMI, JOEL LEMAY
NOT TERRORISTS?
My colleague Jean-François Cloutier saw the 44-minute video showing, in all its horror, the massacre perpetrated by Hamas in Israel on October 7.
I invite you to go read his chilling story.
“What struck me,” he told me at QUB, “was to see with what joy, what euphoria they massacred women and children.”
And we will be told that the Hamas assassins are not terrorists, but “fighters”, “soldiers”?
As Albert Camus said: “To name things badly is to participate in the misfortune of the world.”
ONE MAN’S PARTY?
Disappointed to see that a survey commissioned by the magazine News gave the PQ the winner if there were a general election, François Legault said: “Quebecers are angry with me!”
Not against his government, no: against him! Our PM takes it personal!
“The CAQ will implode the day François Legault leaves, say many analysts. The federalists will return to the PLQ, and the sovereignists, to the PQ. Contrary to what its name indicates, the CAQ is not a coalition, but the party of one man…”
It seems that even François Legault shares this vision!
LIPS ARE SEALED
60 years ago this week, JFK was shot by an assassin.
Or were they killers?
Because according to the detractors of the Warren Commission, which came to the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone, Kennedy was killed by the Chicago mafia, the FBI, the CIA, anti-Castro Cuban exiles, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and the powerful Teamsters union.
Four people are not capable of keeping a secret, but all these beautiful people would have managed to keep silent for decades?
If it’s true, it’s a miracle!
