Marco Navarro-Genie

The Lukaszuk amendment to the Alberta Education Act is meaningless

A diversity clause in section 16 of the Education Act of Alberta has many Alberta parents worried that the dreaded human rights commissions will crush their ability to provide their children with better content and greater values than those offered in the cookie-cutter, government-dictated curriculum.

Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk seems to think that homeschooling parents are against human rights in opposing the bill, which misses the point.  The point is that a diversity code policed by the Human Rights Commission would clash with and ravage an enriched curriculum of education.

Here is a real-life European example of precisely how it will likely happen.

According to Gherush 92, an European human rights organization that acts as a consultant to UN bodies on racism and discrimination, Dante’s Divine Comedy should be removed from schools and universities on account that the Medieval masterpiece is “racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic.”

You read that right.  Even for university students!  Dante’s Divine Comedy is one of the greatest works of western civilization.

Dante’s epic is “offensive and discriminatory” and has no place in a modern classroom, said Valentina Sereni, the group’s president.

While the consumer price index increased between 2001 and 2009 17.82%, on average in this same period, full professors increased their salary by 42.8%, college presidents increased their salary by 62.9% and university presidents increased their salary by 64.8%.