@pamelabanting.bsky.social:
God created the earth, and then nothing happened. For aeons, for an eternity. No history whatsoever. Nobody wrote a book because they didn’t want to risk ideology. Cells didn’t divide; there was no need and there was no such thing as sex. It was super boring. And now here we are in 2026.
@orlaghokelly.bsky.social:
This sure sounds like they will remove residential schools from the curriculum. Very very concerning
@derob966.bsky.social:
When big oil owns a political leader we all pay to clean up their messes.
and when extreme inhumane religious do, e.g. TBA owning Smith and every word she spews, we all suffer, horrifically and other species get wipe out, clean air water and land and safe food all vanish.
@derob966.bsky.social:
Translation- we do not want our young people, learning how we cheat and how to protest against it
@ruggedbroad.bsky.social:
In order to enact this bill, the UCP are going to have to re-write the entire secondary SS curriculum, which covers the French Revolution and international relations.
Maybe AB SS will be Ancient Greece every year from grade 2 thru 12, where democracy was limited to white guys with land.
@bisseemom.bsky.social:
Louis Riel?!?
@sqirlgirly.bsky.social:
Gone
@jvipondmd.bsky.social:
rosa parks. MLK jr. Oka Wet’suwet’en Fairy Creek Meares Island
@thebreakdownab.bsky.social:
Some of the changes with Bill 25 are…
Something.
A wide range of perspectives and ideas on facts?
And apparently there shall be no conversations about how unions came to be in Canada, how access to abortion happened, Louis Reil or Oka.
What the fuck are “common” Alberta values? Loving and worshipping pedophile rapist convicted felon lying moron selfish cruel stupid Trump as Jesus? Racism? Trans and gay hate? Hate of earth and nature and wildlife and clean air, water and land and food and safe work practices? Loving Nazis? Loving and worshipping stupidity and oil companies destroying life on earth? Loving religious men in drag that rape kids?
@yknot05.bsky.social:
Social change thru violent action – won’t be talking about Nazism or once it was established, the Allies going into Europe and again, violently changing the social situation in Germany.
Or history of Romans march thru various countries.
@squee22.bsky.social:
Can’t teach people about holocaust… …
Change happens and only rarely does it happen peacefully.
@kdbnicol.bsky.social:
We shall never mention – not ever – the legions of Antifa, otherwise known as the Canadian Armed Forces which headed to Europe to fight totalitarianism and Naziism. Instead we will cover any Remembrance Day with an ahistorical glop: “Fighting for our freedoms,” free of cause, effect, actual events.
@squee22.bsky.social:
If I was a teacher I would be doing a lot of, “The government says it is illegal for me to teach you about the Red River Rebellion, so if you want to learn about that please – on your own time – read the Wikipedia article on the Red River Rebellion”
@addleben.bsky.social:
Or Ghandi and King’s civil disobedience in the cause of civil rights… Check that last line!If I was an Alberta teacher, I’d ignore this bill, and teach history reality science humanities math sex ed truth – especially about the Nazis now taking over America and Alberta, as is required to be a real teacher, not be a lame soulless piece of hate-filled shit like Nicolaidies.
@nigelb.bsky.social:
There is a long philosophical tradition of civil disobedience from many different sources including Thoreau, Ghandi & Peter Singer. Alberta UCP Bill 25 will make it unlawful to teach about social change through the disobedience of laws.best thing for Alberta parents to do is to move the fuck out of Nazi spoiled selfish stupidity worshipping hate filled Alberta and next best thing is to break this inhumane Nazi law. Teach! Do not bend to Project 2025 or Trump’s cowardice and hate, or Smith’s or TBA’s gross religion of wanting to destroy all that is good
Stupid antichrist Alberta making it illegal to teach kids how the UCP and past Con govts federally and provincially break the law as regular practice to serve money and hate, and making it illegal to teach that Israel is a genocidal Nazi nation as is the USA, and that their bombing Iran, Lebanon and Palestine is illegal.
@mirthdal.bsky.social:
What are the “common values and beliefs of Alberta”?
And if “common values and beliefs” happen to include racist hogwash, “superiority” of “white” people, “Christian” extremism, denigration of FNMI & BIPOC, or Islamophobia, must that be “accepted” and “taught”?
What if it contravenes the Charter?
@tinkiegurl.bsky.social:
The Charter no longer exists in Alberta.It never did in Alberta. AER violates our charter rights as regular practice and when I tried to call it out and sued them, all judges supported Alberta/AER violating the charter. The fucking lying judges went so far as to put AER above the charter. Now everyone else in Alberta gets to experience the horrors I did to keep UCP’s god – money – serving them and evil.
@icecolonel.bsky.social:
“Social change through violent action or disobedience of laws” could cover A LOT of stuff. Bolshevik revolution. US Civil Rights movement. Vietnam protests. Also exactly what an authoritarian government would remove to prevent people from learning how to force change or overthrow authoritarian govt.The beauty is, by UCP and the haters, the separatists, loving AI, and letting invade and destroy Alberta’s air and water, kids will learn on their own by fighting for their very lives, and the super controlled and raped by christian families will learn from their friends. UCP has no idea what courage looks like, kids do.
@leadsheep.bsky.social:
So they want diversity, but not DEI? Make it all make sense. (I know that the diversity they seek is just to make everything all whiteand christian and male and female only under their sick definitions of male and female which is most unnatural – all species have big variety of gender, sex, survival.)
“If you oppose “DEI,” you should have to use the full phrase instead of the letters. Be brave and say, “I opposed diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
Bonus points if you admit which part you don’t like.
Making it an acronym transforms it into a thought-terminating cliche.
From now on, be proud of your opinions, but be specific. Let everyone know if it’s diversity you don’t like, or if it’s equity, or if it’s being inclusive.”
@kdbnicol.bsky.social:
Years ago now I had a guy (who said he was a “regular Albertan”) get his back up when I said Alberta was historically a place where cooperation and cooperatives were the bedrock of society, and the individualist oil guy was a later thing. That the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) was formed in Alberta in 1932, in a convention in Calgary. The CCF of course later became the NDP. It was this last fact that really got under his skin: “I would like to see the data on that!”
Umm. History…?
I take it that kind of historical fact is no longer to be taught? Nor shall we mention Co-op stores in rural Alberta, nor the Calgary Co-op, or the UFA – the United Farmers of Alberta…
All to be ignored.
In favour of “Western” way of thought straight from Cody, Wyoming, rather than Ranchlands County
@daraddishman.bsky.social:
What common beliefs do Albertans hold?
1/4 of us are liberrarian, 1/4 are liberal progressives, 1/4 are regressive conservatives, 1/4 are small government centrist.
1/4 Christian, 1/4 Muslim, 1/4 atheist, 1/4 everything else.
Like, WTF are they thinking?UCP don’t think! They heed orders from disgusting TBA, Project 2025 and Nazi headquarters – Pedophile Repuglican USA
@yorpyorpyorp.bsky.social:
Just setup a table outside of a school and offer illegal knowledge on fucking Louis Reil, and unions.
@lynnho.bsky.social:
Our students will be left behindNO THEY WON’T. FIGHT BACK FFS! TEACHERS AND KIDS RESIST THE FUCKING NAZIS! RESIST! RELIGION ROTTING GOV’T IS CAUSING THIS. FIGHT TO GET NAZI RELIGION OUT OF ALL GOV’Ts AND SCHOOLS!
@chungasr.bsky.social:
With all those restrictions, how can they have critical thinking as an educational objective?
@troyd.bsky.social:
I am a huge fan of malicious compliance when needed.me too! teachers use your imaginations and gather your courage. What’s UCP idiots and Smith’s private police force gonna do? throw you all in jail for teaching what needs to be taught?!
@sidewalkbobyyc.bsky.social:
What do you expect from least educated provincial caucus in Canada?
The Alberta UCP is terrified of a well educated and informed population capable if independent thought.All Nazi kid and earth rapist gov’ts are.
@gutstringtheory.bsky.social:
This UCP Bill smacks of De Santis’ banning of Intro Sociology taught in Florida public universities. Guess who is Danielle Smith’s hero?she also worships Trump; she doesn’t believe in god, rather believes in breaking laws, hate and in kid rapists who paint their faces orange.
@duanebratt.bsky.social:
What about school names? I went to elementary school at Louis Riel and Nellie McClung. Can the teachers tell current students about them or why they are important?
@nigelb.bsky.social:
And for the record, new public school names will now require Ministerial (read the Premier’s) approval in accordance with regs we have yet to see. It’s all about control.
@thatheatherc.bsky.social:
My public schools wouldn’t qualify: Coronation School (for QEII’s coronation), Tom Thomson (visual artist), Mountain Gardens, Bruce T. Lindley (school superintendent), Tecumseh (Indigenous military leader), Sir Ernest MacMillan (composer & conductor), and Lester B. Pearson (former Prime Minister).
@kyleolsen.com:
I wonder about one of mine, Norman Bethune
@duanebratt.bsky.social:
commie!
@leadsheep.bsky.social:
You can’t teach about social change through violent action…so you can’t talk about any wars that have ever happened? Revolutions? Okay…that’s a choice, Alberta.Can’t teach about most music anymore either?! Nothing but boring whiney christian music? No! RESIST!
@possiblycatlike.bsky.social:
There is a Canadian prairie tradition of standing up to vested power such as the Winnipeg General Strike and the On to Ottawa march. Presumably, that prairie history is forbidden knowledge. How about the political organizations that emerged from that context, including Alberta’s UFA government?
@scribblersemporium.bsky.social:
The teaching of creationism and evolution in equal measure will thrill just about everyone.
@marklehman99.bsky.social:
Pretty rich for a govt that is ignoring Fed Laws, charter rights, treaty rights -and plans to continue to do so- telling students they can’t disobey laws to bring about social change. The UCP has barged into our lives-and need to step back
Opinion: UCP’s Bill 25 an anti-democratic move to control public discourse by Kent den Heyer, Apr 01, 2026, Edmonton Journal
Here is a question I think Alberta’s social studies teachers should ask their students in class tomorrow:
“Given that, traditionally, conservatives abhor government interference in citizens’ lives (UCP laws to get between patients and their doctors, for example) and governments who insert their political power into civil society processes where government never reached before (UCP interference in law societies and municipal affairs, for example), what ideology best describes the UCP and its governing style?”
Would this be allowed if Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides’ Bill 25 — An Act to Remove Politics and Ideology from Classrooms and Amend the Education Act, passes into law?
It will be awkward for teachers, if not. Ideologies are the major curricular theme in Alberta’s Grade 12 program of social studies, after all.
Providing students with real world examples for social studies ideas is what helps make powerful teaching. But, as reported in the Edmonton Journal (March 31), for Nicolaides, “topics outside of the curriculum that touch on social or political matters should not be discussed in a classroom environment.”
The minister also stated, school authorities must ensure “neutral and impartial” learning environments and uphold the ability of students to express perspectives or ideas. Except, where then would students with expert adult guidance form their ideas or perspectives with others? How would they learn to express them well if classrooms cannot be a place where students work together to understand the political world they live in or hope for?
Nothing is more social studies than taking ideas from the curriculum to learn about the world (and vice versa) in the context of pressing issues of civic and social importance. That is, in fact, the Education ministry’s stated rationale for secondary social studies.
Nicolaides also said that teachers are expected to provide both sides of the argument. That’s sick! Teach students that Israel’s genocide is good and legal as the other side of reality and that it’s murder and against international law? Teach that rape and abusing kids (conversion therapy) illegal and bad, and misogyny is bad and how to protect yourself from pedophiles in your church or community and or family, BUT rapists say pedophilia is good for kids, and abusive punishing religions say abusing kids in the name of their anti gay, anti trans god is good for kids!? Fuck that two sides bullshit. Teach the truth! No need to both sides anything especially when it’s against the law and extremely harmful to kids! Most issues we as citizens in schools and beyond need to discuss have way more than two sides. To think well about any real-world political issue requires appreciating its multidimensional complexity. Teachers know this, and the best ones work every day to ensure students get this lesson. It’s a lesson I wish this minister with his stated either-or two-sided thinking had learned.
The political philosopher Hannah Arendt argued that citizens form when they engage in what she named as action. By action, Arendt refers to that interaction between people, like students, talking about a pressing political question. Action involves people doing what is unexpected: interrupting their routine and private activities to converse, and, through doing so, creating a place where citizens and a public can form.
Schools promote democratic culture when young people can continuously re-articulate their thoughts as actions in conjunction with the thoughts of others.
For this minister and government, the story their legislation tells is that all that is public should be private, that the political should be reduced to a controlled set of individual consumer choices and that the good life is itself a private affair.
This is one reason I have argued that temporary governments like the UCP should have no say on what constitutes the long-term project of public school curriculum.
A democratic culture is, like learning, however, a public affair. This is why we fund public schooling, its contribution to an evolving but always precarious democratic culture and political rule. And it is our democratic culture that is at stake in Bill 25, another ill-advised UCP government attempt to control what we as a public can and cannot discuss.
Kent den Heyer, PhD, is a professor of secondary education, curriculum, and social studies at the University of Alberta.
Alberta Education Minister introduces wide-ranging bill meant to remove ‘ideology’ from classrooms by Dave McGinn, April 1, 2026, CBC
Alberta is introducing legislation to remove “ideology” from classrooms by prohibiting teachers and school boards from making political or social statements outside their purview and ensuring schools can display no flags but those of Canada and Alberta, with some possible exemptions, among other measures.
like this one is ok for the kids to wave?
Education and Childcare Minister Demetrios Nicolaides introduced the bill, titled “An Act to Remove Politics and Ideology from Classrooms and Amend the Education Act, 2026,” on Tuesday.
The wide-ranging bill also includes measures to give parents more say over their children’s education, establishes principles for school trustee codes of conduct and requires ministerial authority for naming or renaming school buildings.
At a press conference Tuesday, Mr. Demetrios said the legislation is needed to ensure that classrooms are impartial learning environments where no one political position is presented as right or wrong.
“This bill reflects that schools should teach students how to think, not what to think,” he said.You are so wrong, you evil pathetic cowardly Nazi Fucker, too afraid to stand up to David Parker and his evil Take Back Alberta, notably women and girls, back into the fucking cave of slavery, misery and abuse. Evangelicals don’t want kids educated, they want them propagandized.
Premier Danielle Smith’s government has enacted multiple policies intended as guardrails for Alberta youth over the past few years. In 2024, it amended the Education Act to require that parents opt in before students under 16 are taught about gender identity, sexual orientation or human sexuality.
Yup, those good old Alberta christians do not want their kids to know what child sexual abuse and rape is, or how girls get raped (by schools and parents keeping them ignorant about sex and pedophilia) and pregnant; how girls are legally allowed to say “NO!” and or how to prevent getting raped and pregnant
It also required guardians to be notified about the use of students’ preferred pronouns and names, and to provide consent in the case of students under 16.That’s child abuse, what christians are so excellent at doing to their kids
Last summer, Mr. Nicolaides announced that schools would be required to remove any material identified as explicit sexual content from classrooms and libraries by the fall. The province was then in the midst of a labour dispute with Alberta teachers, who walked off the job for three weeks that fall. The 51,000 teachers were forced to end the strike after the United Conservative Party governmentfucking evangelical Nazis used the notwithstanding clause on back-to-work legislation at the end of October. The book ban faced widespread criticism and was ultimately revised to target only visual depictions of sexual acts.The fucking Alberta book ban includes FireFly!!!! One of the greatest stories about rights and freedoms and courage ever!
Opinion: When authorities ban books, we all lose
The extended powers in Tuesday’s bill signal a conservative government fed up with what it sees as the politicization of schools across the province and wanting to return to an emphasis on students learning reading, writing, math and other core areas of knowledge along with critical thinking. But it may silence teachers afraid of running afoul of the government, said Carla Peck, a professor of social-studies education at the University of Alberta.
“This will have a chilling effect on [teachers], especially social-studies teachers,” Prof. Peck said. “Teachers will be very nervous about what they’re going to be allowed to say or use as materials or bring up in the classroom.”In 2006 or thereabouts, a teacher got punished for daring to mention climate change and the tarsands to her class. FFS Alberta is a very stupid America-run place, getting more stupid every time Smith opens her monstrous mouth
Amanda Chapman, the Alberta NDP’s education critic, said schools in the province are already providing a balanced viewpoint and teachers imposing ideology on students is not a “big concern” raised by parents.
“It’s not at all clear to me what is meant by ideology, and what ideology it is exactly that the minister is trying to scrub from our schools with this legislation,” she said.MUST BE PRO KID RAPE, PRO KID RAPE USA, PRO KID RAPIST TRUMP, PRO TARSANDS, PRO TOXIC POLLUTION, PRO PLASTIC, PRO CANCER FROM OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY POLLUTION, PRO WOMEN AND GIRLS HAVING NO RIGHTS AND MUST MAKE MANY BABIES IF THEY DON’T WANT BECAUSE THERE IS NO FUTURE FOR THE NEXT GENERATIONS, AND EVEN THOUGH THE WORLD IS GROSSLY OVER POPULATED WITH HUMANS DESTROYING LIFE ON EARTH, AND MUST BE PRO NAZI!
Prof. Peck said the bill is an attempt to silence progressive politics in schools.
“This to me is about partisanship, trying to get rid of left-wing, progressive ideologies,” she said.
But Mr. Nicolaides said the bill will help ensure that classrooms are free from bias.FUCKING NAZI LIAR. FFS PUT SOME CREATIVITY INTO YOUR LIES, THEY’RE SUCH A BORE, COPYING TRUMP
“It will reinforce expectations that classrooms support respectful discussions and foster diverse viewpoints. It will also require education programming to be neutral, fair and free from personal bias,” he said.That’s impossible, every fucking human has biases, just like you, Mr. Misogyny Anti-education Anti-kids Anti-freedom Nicolaides!
Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause on three bills affecting trans and gender-diverse youth
The act also promises to amend the Education Act to establish provincial oversight rules for flags at schools. These will allow only for the display of the Canadian flag and Alberta flag, with exemptions for flags related to Alberta’s heritage and school culture and activities.and of course, this one:
The legislation will also require schools to play the national anthem at least once a week.
“These requirements reinforce the importance of shared civic symbols that unite students, that unite families and communities as Albertans and Canadians,” Mr. Nicolaides said.as long as kids are not forced to say the lord’s prayer as I was in grade school every fucking morning. I objected, and went to my principal and told him I did not believe in such fairy tales, and would not say the prayer or sing god save the queen. He smiled, and said OK, get back to class. I never looked back. FREEDOM FROM RELIGION!
Public school boards will be required to get ministerial approval for naming or renaming school buildings owned by the boards.that really means from hideous fucker David Parker
The minister will also have more control over other matters currently in the hands of school boards, including approving the employment contracts of superintendents and the use of underused school buildings.
The bill also enables the minister to set provincial strategic priorities for school authorities.
“Ensuring that we provide a higher degree of transparency and accountability, I think, will help ensure that our education system continues to deliver a world-class education,” Mr. Nicolaides said.
Jason Schilling, president of the Alberta Teachers’ Association, the union representing more than 51,000 teachers and school administrators in the province’s public, separate and francophone school divisions, said government must work with the association to implement the changes proposed in the bill.
“Before any regulations are implemented in our schools, the Association needs to be consulted, which it has not been so far. The Association expects to be an engaged partner so that we can bring real-world classroom perspectives to the government’s plans for education,” he said in a statement.Why are humans so fucking cowardly!? Irk.