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'Woke' decision to replace Mother's Day with celebration of parents at a Canadian school stirs controversy
The Canadian Press ^ | 05/11/2023 | Jacob Serebrin

Posted on 05/12/2023 6:23:13 AM PDT by simpson96

The controversial decision by teachers at a Quebec school to replace Mother’s Day events with a celebration of parents has caused ripples all the way to the provincial legislature, but supporters say such moves can benefit children.

The school service centre that oversees La Chanterelle school in Quebec City said the teachers made the decision — which was announced to parents by email — because several students in their classes don’t have a mother or father, while others are in foster homes.

“It is clear … that this initiative was motivated by the teachers’ benevolent intentions towards the students in their class,” the Centre de services scolaire de la Capitale said in a statement posted on social media. “But, clearly, their communication was clumsy and could have been misunderstood and misinterpreted, and we are sorry.”

The apology came after Quebec Conservative Leader Eric Duhaime this week shared on Twitter the email sent to La Chanterelle parents, asking Quebec Education Minister Bernard Drainville if he would allow “the woke to abolish Mother’s Day.”

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“Honestly, I can’t believe I’m in front of you today to reiterate the importance of Mother’s Day and the importance of Father’s Day,” he told reporters

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Mona Greenbaum, the executive director of the LGBT+ Family Coalition, said celebrating a Parent’s Day, instead of Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, doesn’t erase mothers or fathers; it just makes children who don’t come from traditional families more comfortable.

“All these teachers are trying to do, really, is to make schools more inclusive for kids from all types of families,” she said. “It’s not a political gesture. It’s a gesture of compassion, and inclusion.”

No one is stopping children from making cards for their mothers, she said, they’re just recognizing that other kinds of families exist.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...


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You know how you spoil a 2-year-old, give the screaming child whatever they want to appease them. Works the same with adults acting like 2-year-olds. And like the screaming spoiled child, the woke need to be ignored or told to be quiet. It's for their own good.
1 posted on 05/12/2023 6:23:13 AM PDT by simpson96
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So Canada has no mothers or fathers, no free speech, and will gladly have a doctor terminate your life.

Not the “nice” neighbor to the north that we once knew.


2 posted on 05/12/2023 6:33:03 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is the most subversive and harmful institution on the planet. )
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To: simpson96

Mother’s Day will be abolished for being fascistic as pro-natalism will be equated with fascism.


3 posted on 05/12/2023 6:33:06 AM PDT by Shadow44
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To: simpson96

Biological doners day?


4 posted on 05/12/2023 6:35:17 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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“All these teachers are trying to do, really, is to make schools more inclusive for kids from all types of families,” she said. “It’s not a political gesture. It’s a gesture of compassion, and inclusion.”

I’m so effing sick of these people.

L


5 posted on 05/12/2023 6:36:09 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: simpson96

The real war on women! Feminists have been waging it for decades. The final battle lines are drawn.


6 posted on 05/12/2023 6:41:44 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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One day about 50 years ago the media and institutions suddenly dropped Mrs.from the language, one day we woke up to find out that the wonderful word gay suddenly meant homosexual, I remember being puzzled until I realized they were describing actresses as actor on purpose and that actresses no longer existed, today they are disappearing mom.

A person from 1969 would have trouble understanding a lot of the language today and would be infuriated to have to press 1 for English.


7 posted on 05/12/2023 7:03:55 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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Behind every Woke is a hiding Communist


8 posted on 05/12/2023 7:17:43 AM PDT by butlerweave
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So we are not allowed to do Mother’s Day because not everyone has a mother.

So then we cannot do Father’s Day either because not everyone has a father.

A generic Parent’s Day cannot work either because not everyone has parents.


9 posted on 05/12/2023 7:21:53 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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This has some positive aspects. Mothers day was created by florists, candy manufactures and Hallmark. Feminists are for Mothers day. Take the sermons on Mothers day and compare it to the sermons on Fathers day. Mothers are worshiped in the sermons where the fathers are demonized.
This goes along with governments promoting one parent families, women as church leaders and having teachers being predominately women. Both boys and girls need a father figure as the prominent authority figure that is looked up to and seen as loving person with macho characteristics.
Violence would be reduced.
I’ll end my rant here.


10 posted on 05/12/2023 7:29:54 AM PDT by jimfr
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A person from 1969 would have trouble understanding a lot of the language today and would be infuriated to have to press 1 for English

A person doesn't have to be from 1969, anyone with half a brain knows the world has gone insane.

11 posted on 05/12/2023 8:24:38 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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"I’m so effing sick of these people."

Amen.

These people, who conveniently have control over us, just mean well...

12 posted on 05/12/2023 8:38:49 AM PDT by simpson96
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13 posted on 05/12/2023 2:35:00 PM PDT by simpson96
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HAPPY BIRTHING PERSON’S DAY !


14 posted on 05/14/2023 12:55:16 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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