{"id":4080,"date":"2010-06-10T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T16:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2011-11-27T13:07:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T17:07:46","slug":"otf-threatens-to-punish-students-for-sins-of-the-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/otf-threatens-to-punish-students-for-sins-of-the-university\/","title":{"rendered":"OTF threatens to punish students for ‘sins’ of the university"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spite and malice are the only reasons for this kind of blatant blackmail attempt<\/a> by the Ontario Teachers’ Federation:<\/p>\n

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Nipissing University and the Ontario Teachers\u2019 Federation may be headed for a full-blown confrontation over the institution\u2019s decision to confer an honorary degree on former Ontario premier Mike Harris, a polarizing politician largely abhorred by the teaching community for his education reforms.<\/p>\n

The federation warned the university in a May 12 letter that it \u201ccannot predict how teachers may demonstrate their displeasure\u201d if the ceremony goes ahead, but university president Leslie Lovett-Doust said on Wednesday Mr. Harris will, indeed, receive the honorary Doctor of Letters on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

The teachers\u2019 organization has already hinted some of its members may choose not to place Nipissing students in highly coveted student-teacher positions, and the federation may add teeth to that veiled threat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe OTF executive could, as an option, inform Nipissing that we are going to recommend to our members that they not take teachers for practicum placement from Nipissing University,\u201d said Sam Hammond, president of the Elementary Teachers\u2019 Federation of Ontario, one of four affiliate organizations under the OTF.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mike Harris has been out of politics for (effectively) the entire time the Nipissing students were in high school and university, yet their future careers are now being explicitly threatened by the OTF. What possible<\/em> way can these young adults be held responsible for the actions of a long-retired politician? Clearly, even the idiots at the OTF don’t think this is reasonable . . . but they do think it’s worth ruining their public image to prevent Mike Harris from being given an honorary degree.<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: Matt Gurney<\/a> scrawls his illegible “x” on the dotted line of the protest petition:<\/p>\n

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Former premier Mike Harris personally and single-handedly destroyed my childhood. Just ask the Ontario Teacher\u2019s Federation and its other, affiliated unions. They will happily confirm that Mr. Harris did indeed, knowingly and willfully, set out to ruin everything in this province that was pure and good. And they will not let that go unpunished.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article, which must have been dictated and then painstakingly transcribed, is finished with this bio note: “Matt Gurney is a member of the National Post editorial board, even though, having been educated during the Harris years, he is, of course, illiterate.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spite and malice are the only reasons for this kind of blatant blackmail attempt by the Ontario Teachers’ Federation: Nipissing University and the Ontario Teachers\u2019 Federation may be headed for a full-blown confrontation over the institution\u2019s decision to confer an honorary degree on former Ontario premier Mike Harris, a polarizing politician largely abhorred by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,79,53],"tags":[52,87,764],"class_list":["post-4080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-education","category-politics","tag-absurd","tag-ontario","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-13O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12270,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions\/12270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}