The OECD paper also found a link between productivity decline and stagnating human capital development. Since 2003, young citizens of OECD countries have underperformed on standardized tests in science, math and reading.
This is why we need strong provincial policies supporting our youth, and this is something that the next 10 years I think will punish us and the US especially hard on.
Without educating and motivating our kids, we don’t have a strong economic future. Immigrants are kind of a bandaid, our youth (and the children of these immigrants) need to be engaged and motivated and educated to become efficient productive.
It is so frustrating seeing my nieces and nephews in huge ineffective classes where they check out and lose interest in the subjects they used to love.
I want kids to see the world as a place where motivation and cleverness meant you could do and be anything you wanted. It hurts my heart seeing them fall behind and feeling hopeless.
This election the conservatives have really bothered me by not even bothering campaigning.
Agreed, you look at how places in Asia treat the importance of education compared to how North America does and it isn’t a surprise how we are falling behind all over the place. Not to say there aren’t plenty of issues with how their education systems work, but with the status quo we are essentially throwing away any advantage we have over the East.
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This is why we need strong provincial policies supporting our youth, and this is something that the next 10 years I think will punish us and the US especially hard on.
Without educating and motivating our kids, we don’t have a strong economic future. Immigrants are kind of a bandaid, our youth (and the children of these immigrants) need to be engaged and motivated and educated to become efficient productive.
Fear not, in Ontario the Conservative government is slashing and burning education into the ground and making it worse for all students.
Oh sorry, you said we needed to invest in our kids futures via education. My bad.
This is partially what motivated me to post.
It is so frustrating seeing my nieces and nephews in huge ineffective classes where they check out and lose interest in the subjects they used to love.
I want kids to see the world as a place where motivation and cleverness meant you could do and be anything you wanted. It hurts my heart seeing them fall behind and feeling hopeless.
This election the conservatives have really bothered me by not even bothering campaigning.
Agreed, you look at how places in Asia treat the importance of education compared to how North America does and it isn’t a surprise how we are falling behind all over the place. Not to say there aren’t plenty of issues with how their education systems work, but with the status quo we are essentially throwing away any advantage we have over the East.