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Perhaps you have been dreamily going through life thinking the people who run education in this province are connected to reality.

I fervently wish that were true.

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But recently, two things happened to crush that dream for any of us naïve enough to believe in such things.



A friend of mine who is a kindergarten teacher in the Toronto District School Board was telling me about four year olds who refuse to go back into the school after recess.

So the principal has to stand outside in the yard with the child until the child decides to go in.

I said, “They don’t weigh much. Pick the kid up.”

“No”, I was told, “We are not allowed to touch the kid.”

So the child is in charge. A four year old is deciding how the school day will go.

Don’t try this at home.

If that is the policy – and I do not doubt my friend — that is dumb, dumb, dumb.

I contacted the TDSB early Monday morning to find out if this is the board’s policy, or a school principal misunderstanding the policy. I am still waiting for a response.