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300 Schools to Close in Ontario because of Birth Rate Crash
LifeSiteNews.com ^ | Thursday April 24, 2008 | Hilary White

Posted on 04/26/2008 1:27:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

TORONTO, April 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Plummeting birth rates have resulted in the closure of over 300 schools in Ontario and half of the province's school boards have 90,000 fewer students than they did six years ago. 300 schools are slated to be closed in the province simply because there are not enough children to go into them according to a report by People for Education.

"Much of the funding that school boards receive is based on numbers of students," the report said. "As a result, fewer students equals less funding, fewer programs and, in many cases, closing schools." The losses in this report are in addition to the 110 school closures in Ontario between 2004 and 2005.

Four years ago, University of Toronto economics professor David Foot called then-record low birth rate the "revenge of the birth control pill." Foot, the author of 1996's Boom, Bust and Echo, a book on Canadian demographics, said the widespread use of artificial contraception was responsible for fewer children being born in the 1960s and 1970s. This left fewer women of child-bearing age for the next generation, today's mothers.

The number of live births for every 1,000 people, plunged by 25.4 per cent between 1993 and 2005. Despite slight increases, Canada's total fertility rate in 2005 was 1.54 children per woman, an increase of only .01 per cent, but which, nevertheless, is the highest rate since 1998. The latest report from People for Education estimates that there will be 500,000 fewer students in Canada's schools in the next 10 years.

The Ontario Ministry of Education has predicted that by 2010, total elementary and secondary school enrolment will drop by nearly 100,000 students from 2002 numbers.

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


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birthrates; canada; cultureofdeath; deathofthewest; demographics; lifehate; ontario; populationcontrol; schoolclosings; zpg
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To: MinorityRepublican
How are they going to keep the teacher's unions on board with ZPG, if that means the teachers are out of a job?

/johnny/

21 posted on 04/26/2008 2:00:17 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Bless us all, each, and every one.)
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To: MinorityRepublican; kingattax; Spouting Horn; goldstategop; FormerACLUmember; CarrotAndStick; ...

Is there some reason White folks nowadays don’t like/love each other enough to procreate?


22 posted on 04/26/2008 2:00:48 PM PDT by ProCivitas (Pro-Family = Natural Marriage + Fathers' Rights + Pro-Life + Traditional Divorce Standards)
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To: goldstategop

The left doesn’t mind to see us die because the white man is responsible for all the evil things in the world.


23 posted on 04/26/2008 2:00:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: JRandomFreeper

Canada needs a lot more immigrants. They won’t do too bad if we send them some illegal immigrants up north.


24 posted on 04/26/2008 2:04:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Not to worry.

When the Super Trans-Highway gets constructed, they will have a free flow of newbies coming in from Mexico and southward.

NAFTA, etc.


25 posted on 04/26/2008 2:06:02 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: goldstategop; MinorityRepublican
Canada is below population replacement growth and what population growth there is comes from foreign immigration.

Paging Felipe Calderon. And they're Christians!

26 posted on 04/26/2008 2:09:26 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Ronald Reagan's single biggest mistake: Picking Poppy Bush to be his veep.)
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To: ProCivitas
Is there some reason White folks nowadays don?t like/love each other enough to procreate?

Yes. Because white people are not worthy of love. Haven't you been watching the news?

27 posted on 04/26/2008 2:12:50 PM PDT by G.Love (Romney '12)
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To: ProCivitas

Decades of preaching marriage is slavery and overpopulation will lead to environmental destruction has taken its toll.


28 posted on 04/26/2008 2:14:09 PM PDT by Spouting Horn (Terrorism is a tactic. The battle's against Shariah and Jihad.)
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To: ProCivitas

Birth rates have crashed in all people, all over the world, except Muslims.


29 posted on 04/26/2008 2:17:54 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: tom h
Women are acculturated to believe that there are other things to do than raise children.

I've seen a little booklet that Planned Parenthood put out decades ago = donated to the schools - that had an exercise for young girls to list the things they'd like to be/do when they grew up. It admonished them that getting married and being a mother didn't count.

30 posted on 04/26/2008 2:18:10 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Typical Gun-Toting, Jesus-Loving Gramma)
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To: FormerACLUmember
"but not fertility treatments."

Good for them.

There are plenty of kids worthy of adoption. If someone wants children they do not need to get a frankenbaby.

31 posted on 04/26/2008 2:18:51 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: ought-six

“The declining birthrate can be laid at the doorstep of out-of-control abortion on demand”

And on the desire for material things, which desire is fed by advertising, which causes people to work not just to feed, house, clothe and recreate, but to work to satisfy the lusts of the eye and the lusts of the flesh, for ever more and more things, which all perish with the using of them anyway.
Many of the newer houses are monstrous in size in so many areas, and they have no ‘families’ living in them, and no children and no love They are just empty tombs with no life in them, and they have no yards, no gardens, no nothing; except tidied little plots of grass where foo can go poo poo.
To have all the things which advertizers produce the lusts for means people forego having children, in order to work for the toys and things to satisfy the cravings of the flesh and eyes.
That’s my rant about the state of our own nation, anyway.

Welcome to the world of “Me”.


32 posted on 04/26/2008 2:19:04 PM PDT by prayforpeaceofJerusalem
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To: goldstategop
The prospect of going bust doesn't seem to faze the Left.

Just ask the Shakers.

33 posted on 04/26/2008 2:19:08 PM PDT by 386wt (Be free and don't die!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
On another level, if enough parents start homeschooling, that will also cut down on the gov’t indoctrination powers over children and, when the financial squeeze gets bad enough, make them go back to small neighborhoods schools that the parents can keep tabs on and teaching again instead of indoctrinating...
34 posted on 04/26/2008 2:21:44 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Typical Gun-Toting, Jesus-Loving Gramma)
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To: MinorityRepublican; GMMAC; Clive; exg; kanawa; conniew; backhoe; -YYZ-; Former Proud Canadian; ...

35 posted on 04/26/2008 2:45:07 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: CarrotAndStick

“Birth rates have crashed in all people, all over the world, except Muslims.”

Maybe Christians should be just as devout in following God’s word about having children.


36 posted on 04/26/2008 2:52:16 PM PDT by Bushwacker777
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To: MinorityRepublican

Any doubt that abortion is one of the biggest reasons? Sad. Pray for all the little ones who have lost their lives.


37 posted on 04/26/2008 2:53:59 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: ProCivitas
White folks nowadays don’t like/love each other enough to procreate?

More like they are too in love with themselves (selfish) to procreate

38 posted on 04/26/2008 2:58:32 PM PDT by Popman (Typical bitter white male clinging to my religion and guns......................)
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To: Bushwacker777

Yes.


39 posted on 04/26/2008 3:01:14 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: CarrotAndStick
Fertility Rate by Country
40 posted on 04/26/2008 3:04:42 PM PDT by Popman (Typical bitter white male clinging to my religion and guns......................)
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