O, CANADA!
Or at least the B.C. portion thereof:
VANCOUVER – In B.C., the knives are out. The federal election race is closer here than in any other province, with tight, three-way contests in many of the province’s 36 ridings.
…The release pointed to comments made by Jim McMurtry, in a letter he wrote in 2003 to Teachers, a magazine published by the B.C. Teachers’ Federation.
A public school teacher, Mr. McMurtry is a strong opponent of home schooling. In his three-year-old letter, he wrote that parents who home school their children “participate in what can be perceived as a form of child abuse.”
Mr. McMurtry stands by the remarks in his letter. Reached yesterday, he said that home-schooled children are sometimes forced to “do piecemeal work in the garment industry and in the construction industry … home schooling in some cases is tantamount to child abuse when children are deprived of a nurturing environment. I believe that.”
Y’all know what to do.