This bit caught my eye:
"I want to encourage any parent/guardian of school aged children or
teach to apply."
Quite apart from that it should rather say "teacher", the lack of commas means that this could also be (mis)read as asking parents/guardians of
teachers to apply to the panel
I was also a bit dubious about the singular possessive "Minister's", but if the Advisory Panels are only for the Education Minister, I suppose it works.
Is this woman basically Dolores Umbridge for real...?
I can't find the photoshopped version of her face on Dolores Umbridge's body, but I'm not kidding; the resemblance is scary especially when Adriana wears pink.
Okay, some of the captions here are sarcastic and snarky and the work of people who are tired of her BS. But the photos are of her - her smug, smirking, absolutely clueless "I've put forth half a dozen surveys, panels, and zoom meetings already and nobody likes it except a few of my adoring supporters, the curriculum authors, my colleague the MLA for Red Deer South (who hasn't read the curriculum, but so what, it's a great curriculum), and my Sun media buddies who can always be counted on for a nice defense of me when those horrible teachers are all bullying me, so the best course of action is to spend $$$$$ on radio ads promoting the curriculum and set up another panel but stack it with UCP supporters who are under a gag order so even if they don't like the curriculum they can't say anything about it and we'll just tell the public they love it" attitude.
That brooch on her right lapel says "Children First". She has NEVER put the children of this province first. Her idea of support during the pandemic is to issue TWO disposable masks per child (not per day, in sum total) and a bottle of hand sanitizer per classroom.
This is part of the Grade 4 social studies curriculum. The part of this that is absolutely mind-crogglingly moronic is on the right-hand side: "Take out a map of Alberta... Calculate the distance... from Regina to Duck Lake..."
Um, Adriana? This is an exercise that is impossible to do. Grade 4 kids can't do it. Not even university students could do it. Why is that?
BECAUSE NEITHER REGINA NOR DUCK LAKE ARE IN ALBERTA. They are in Saskatchewan.
If she's still around by the next election in 2023 and runs again, she will likely blitz this building, as it's in her riding and most people here tend to vote right-wing. If she does run again, I plan to keep a map of Alberta handy, and tell her that I've been diligently searching for TWO YEARS to find Regina and can't. I give up. Please, Adriana, tell me how to find Regina on this map. I thought I was smart at geography, but I'm embarrassed to say that I can't even match the skills of a Grade 4 student.
Ditto on locating gravity on a globe. That's another assignment mentioned in the curriculum. I did find Gravity, as in Gravity, Iowa. It's a village of less than 200 people. But that's not what the assignment is talking about. It's talking about gravity, in the physics sense.
One of the people she hired to write the social studies curriculum is a genocide-denying racist who claims that the native residential schools were actually good places where the parents wanted their kids to go, and every last one of those dead kids whose remains were found in unmarked graves this summer died of TB.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission brought forth 92 recommendations, which have to be followed. One of them is to incorporate lessons about the residential schools into the curriculum from Grade 1 on up to high school and in any university course that may be applicable.
This curriculum doesn't do that. The excuse? "It's too sad." The comeback from those who oppose the curriculum: "If the native kids weren't too young to be kidnapped, starved, beaten, and sexually abused, the non-native kids aren't too young to learn about it."
But hey, let's just substitute lessons about burning Joan of Arc at the stake and shoehorn bible verses in and pretend it's "poetry."
At least she doesn't giggle like Umbridge. But every time I see a new photo on her FB page, especially if she's wearing pink and a smug expression, I can't help wishing for a herd of centaurs to carry her away.
The cabinet was shuffled a few days ago. Some people naively hoped she'd be shuffled out of this portfolio or demoted to the back benches. It won't happen, though. They have too much $$$$$$$ invested in this travesty.
Are we sure the council is not meant to advise the minister’s parents?
I don't know if her parents are still alive, but if I were related to her, I'd change my name and hide. Honestly, I have no idea how her kids and grandchildren manage to function. Unless they're kept away from the media, they have to know that she's one of the most hated people in Alberta.
It's customary when criticizing a politician to leave their underage children/grandchildren out of it, but she keeps bringing them up herself - she thinks that having children and grandchildren is what qualifies her to be the Minister of Education (along with formerly sitting on the Catholic school board in Red Deer, but not even her former colleagues or the current board want anything to do with her or this curriculum; they're among the 55+ out of 61 boards that have refused to pilot it).
