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POWR Take in 20
by Parents of Waterloo Region
Educating Minds: Parents of Waterloo Region (EMPOWR) is a grassroots collection of parents and citizens committed to education and liberty. This podcast covers issues in the Waterloo Region that most legacy media outlets ignore. How and why has education changed over time? What local policies that impact liberty are being implemented without widespread discussion and consent. What can we do about it? And who are the fascinating people bringing ideas and action to the table? Find all of this and more in just 20 minutes with the POWR Take in 20! empowrconnect.substack.com
Episodes
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The Costs of "Decolonizing" A School
We interviewed Ishan Acharya, a remarkable Grade 10 student at what used to be called Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School (affectionately known as “S-JAM”). In 2022, the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) renamed the school to align with its “commitment to Truth and Reconciliation…
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Joanna Williams: Education's Two Solitudes
Joanna Williams is a British author and public intellectual. She began her career teaching high school English prior to an academic career that included directorship of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education. We reached out to speak with Joanna about her recent essay, “How progressive...
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Debbie Kasman – Ontario Education Reform
An education analyst with four decades of experience in public education, Debbie Kasman has a vision for reforming Ontario’s public education system. In her view, the system is in crisis and needs a firm hand to restore order. She believes that replacing Boards of Trustees with a single boss—the...
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Alexandra Lysova: Overcoming Internal Exile
Alexandra (Sasha) Lysova is a mother of children in public school and a professor of criminology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. She immigrated to Canada to escape authoritarianism in Russia, and is alarmed by similar patterns emerging in Canada. Sasha has long been outspoken at…
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PIC Policy Laundering
Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) quietly passed an anti-racism policy this fall. The Board claimed parent consultation via the Parent Involvement Committee (PIC) but didn’t mention that at least three of six parents opposed the policy. We describe this stealth policymaking, which...
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"Ideologically Problematic"
Last week, we each attended a ‘town hall’ about the WRDSB strategic plan. Here we compare notes and conclude that many parents are hungry for a town hall, which these events did not even remotely resemble. Instead, parents were directed to unattended stations where they could silently read a...
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PIC Your Poison
As parent members of Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) Parent Involvement Council (PIC), we discuss the November 25 PIC meeting. Specifically, we (i) adopted a new code of conduct that self-imposes even more restrictions than the Board already places on parent volunteers, and (ii)...
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Inverting the Weeds, Expanding the Rabbit Hole
In this episode, Cristina and Geoff springboard off the Mia Hughes interview to get deep into the weeds about linguistic inversions versus expansions. Is “trans woman” the same as “gay marriage” or not? Is one an inversion and the other an expansion, or are they both inversions or both…
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Mia Hughes, Part II: Gender Identity in Schools
In part II, we continue our discussion with journalist Mia Hughes about the impacts of gender identity ideology in schools. This includes the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) procedure AP1235 and the Safe Caring and Inclusive Schools (SCIS) survey. 1:52 The incoherent SCIS definition...
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Mia Hughes, Part I: The Laurier Debate
Journalist Mia Hughes joins us to recap the Laurier HxA ‘debate’ with Morgane Oger on “Gender Identity: Evidence & Impacts.” Mia wrote an excellent article summarizing her side of the debate for MLI Inside Policy. 2:34 General impressions. 4:36 The invention of gender identity. 8:00 What is a...
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POWR Take in 20: Episode 1
In the first of many 20-minute takes, Cristina and Geoff introduce themselves and unpack a few brief but critical moments from the September 29th Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) meeting. The Chair opened with a lengthy statement affirming the Board’s commitment to reconciliation,...
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Educating Minds: Parents of Waterloo Region (EMPOWR) is a grassroots collection of parents and citizens committed to education and liberty. This podcast covers issues in the Waterloo Region that most legacy media outlets ignore. How and why has education changed over time? What local policies that impact liberty are being implemented without widespread discussion and consent. What can we do about it? And who are the fascinating people bringing ideas and action to the table? Find all of this and more in just 20 minutes with the POWR Take in 20!
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