Our Schools/Our Selves, Spring 2007 - Redefining the Essentials : Challenging the Limits on our Schools

E D I TO R I A L B OA R D Keren Brathwai t e , Mi c hael Corbett, Denise Doherty-Delorme, Be r n i e Fro e s e - G e r m a i n , Larry Kuehn, Doug Little, George Martell, Pat r i c i a Mc A d i e , Marita Moll, Satu Repo, He a t h e r -jane Robertson, Erika Shaker A DV I S O RY BOA R D Lynn Carlile, Kari Dehli, Sarah Dopp, Ed Fi n n ,D avid Flower, Ka r i n Jor d a n , Clare Kea t i n g , Kirsten [...] A web site called Term Pap e r The minister of education in Relief offers a special price of Nova Scotia fired the sch o o l $9.95 a page for papers that are board in Halifax and replaced “c u s t o m - w r i t t e n ” and “c o m p l e t e l y them with an individual to over- no n - p l a g i a r i z e d. ” In small print, see the schools there. [...] An d , just to make it unde- a day, five days a week, ni n e niably clear to students what they months a year, it provides care — should and shouldn’t do, the scho o l in the broadest sense of the word is responsible for adhering to and — to the children of the commu- reinforcing a complex system of nity until they reach the age of 16. [...] Fin a l l y , what can st r i p p e d - b a c k vision of education we do — what is currently being — both in and out of scho o l. As I done — to confront the limits recount in “ S chool Board placed on education…or, as one Fo u n d a t i o n s : An ‘ e s s e n t i a l ’ author asks, to confront the institu- o v e r v i e w,” while schools are tional limits of education itself? [...] To understanding of a Tor o n t o - b a s e d critically examine public educa- experiment providing free uni- tion — not just the curriculum, versity according to An a r c hi s t the policy, the content and the pr i n c i p l e s. “Academic Squatting” ad m i n i s t r a t i o n , but the actual goes even further and confronts pu r p o s e , role and structure of pub- not just the limitations place