Keeping them down on the farm

[cross-posted to Living in interesting times]

Okay, here’s one thing I don’t get: during the PSE debacle this government could not get enough of the concept of “transferability”: making it easy for students to transfer from one programme or institution to another seemed practically their most important goal for higher education. And yet with K–12 education, they are embracing a plan that would put N.B. children completely out of step with children in other provinces, and so make it all that much more difficult for them to relocate (which is not doubt part of the appeal), but also making it difficult, as well as unappealing, for people considering relocating here.

Why don’t we just build a giant wall? It worked, for awhile, in Berlin.

Think of all the construction jobs.

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