🇨🇦 Grade 2, already enrolled in Google

A Nova Scotia mother found out her daughter had a school Google account for three years and was told she could not opt out because it was a requirement for learning. There it is: the Canadian education model in one grotesque little snapshot. Kids cannot read properly, attention spans are shredded, and schools still act like Silicon Valley sales reps with taxpayer funding. Even substitute teachers are watching students blow past filters to scroll TikTok, shop online and trade Bitcoin in class, as reported.

Now the same system that spent a decade worshipping screens is rebranding the backlash as a techlash, as if parents are the irrational ones. Sweden is bringing back textbooks, pen and paper, libraries and screen-free classrooms after falling scores. Norway is retreating too. Meanwhile Canada outsourced childhood to Google, called it progress, and wrapped it in the usual jargon about innovation. This is what happens when institutions serve fashionable global tech orthodoxies instead of children, parents and basic national common sense.

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