Story 2: Emilia
To the remaining members of the PPO,
I hope this message finds all of our members, both new and old, well. I have successfully been elected as the new minister of education. Today is the start of our new world. I will fulfill our dreams and meet the demands of the Educational Freedom act once and for all.
I am thrilled to share the plans that I will be putting into action as soon as this upcoming school year. Our community will see intense shifts, for the better, and I am confident that these shifts will carry our children, our students, to new academic heights. Privatization is the future, our future, and our future is bright and finally, completely in our hands.
We inherited a school system in the Jane and Finch community that was sick. I myself remember seeing my children come home from school each day in tears from the relentless infestation of bullies. Their mental health suffered, their grades suffered, and their futures were at risk. Taking my kids out of the public school system was the best decision I ever made, I just wish I had done it sooner, I wish it was my choice and my responsibility sooner. I wish it was more in my control. My daughter Amanda is now the lead heart surgeon at Sick Kids hospital. My son Stanley, he didn’t get that chance, the system was what caused me to lose him, it was what caused him to lose himself. Our children are our greatest investments, so to lose them before they start producing amazing results as involved citizens, as future parents, as contributors to our economy and progress is the greatest tragedy of all. I will ensure another parent does not lose their say in their child's future.
Privatization also means parents can finally select schools with the same values as their family. I know many of you have expressed over the years that you hardly recognize your own children when they come home from school as the years go by. The public school system created such an isolated environment for our kids. The teachers, who should have been building bridges for us to connect with our kids, instead created “safe spaces” for them and labelled us, their parents, the ones who gave them life, as the enemy. These systems turned our children against each other and against us. Now we will finally get to work with administrators and teachers that are directly paid by us as parents and therefore seek to inform and please us as clients.