Educators as a co-parent? Nonsense

BEN LEVIN

The story of Ben Levin underscores why we need to keep curriculum as simple as possible.

Levin is the 61-year-old former deputy education minister for both Ontario and Manitoba who is facing seven counts of child exploitation, including charges of possessing, distributing and making child pornography, and agreeing to or arranging for a sexual offence against a child under 16. His lawyer says he plans to “vigorously defend” the charges.

Just days before the charges were announced I read an essay by Levin in the Literary Review of Canada about improving the education system.

While there has been much ado about Levin’s potential involvement in Ontario’s controversial and subsequently abandoned sex-ed policies, there was none of that in the essay.

But one narrative in the essay underscored how some educators think they should be involved in aspects of a child’s life traditionally outside the core domain of teaching.  (more...)

Educators as a co-parent? Nonsense