This is getting a little much

A group of eight students from the University of Alberta's 'Black Youth Mentorship and Leadership Program', wrote a piece in today's 'Calgary Herald' complaining about the lack of Black history in Alberta's educational curriculum.  They claimed that this was the cause of the inordinately low educational outcomes for Black students, who drop out of high school at double the rate of other students.

Come on.  

They also cited anti-Black racism they claim is rampant throughout schools in the province.

Come on.  Again.

I would think that values and upbringing have a major role to play in shaping the goals of all students, no?  How can it all be laid at the feet of the curriculum to which they object?

Perhaps they don't teach the Constitution Acts of 1867 and 1982, which explain how Canada was formed, i.e., two founding nations, French and English.  There were no other official nationalities at the time and still aren't.  But since then, multiculturalism has been enshrined in this country via special ministries and initiatives such as 'Black History Month', for example.

There are so many nationalities in Canada there'd have to be hundreds of other cultural histories incorporated -- or "infused", as these students demand -- into every provincial educational curriculum.  That's a Pandora's box no one will touch.  Are we going to build in Filipino, Chinese, Japanese history into course content?  And speaking of Pandora's boxes, another has been opened with the appointment of the first Indigenous Languages Commissioner.  Don't get me started!  It won't be long before native lawyers and lobbyists will be demanding their own "special" commissioners because they will claim their native bands and languages are "different" and need its own.  

That's how political rabbit holes get deeper and deeper and cost millions and millions to satisfy.

There are hundreds of colleges and universities offering specialized courses on ethnic, gender and cultural practices and histories in this country.  Take one, but don't expect official, provincial K-12 curricula to try to satisfy all requests.  Can't be done.  I mean, there is still a loud hue-and-cry against separate schools, for Gawd's sake.

So kids, buck up, study hard, go out into the world and make a contribution because trust me, no one in his/her right mind is going to open up the constitution ever again to accommodate you.