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January 2025

NO. 5

Secure Learning Environments

Why Back2Basics is passionate about this

This Month...

• This month we look at the third of the five Core Values which Back2Basics encourages and promotes, namely Secure Learning Environments.   
  
  

• Thank you so much to those who made generous financial contributions in December. This is much appreciated. Our financial needs are ongoing. If you have not yet done so and wish to, you can find instructions on how to contribute, at the end of this newsletter.
  
  

• We stand at the beginning of a new year with all of the promise and potential that it holds. We trust that this will be a good year for children and families in Durham Region.  
  
  

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Viewpoint

Core Value - We encourage and promote Secure Learning Environments

To spell it out more clearly this entails:

Secure learning environments and peaceful co-existence regardless of differences.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:  Security - the quality or state of being secure such as freedom from danger, fear or anxiety: (Synonym: Safety)

This definition doesn’t need further explanation. Security is the feeling...Read More.....

This ‘n That

A synopsis of some of the good (This) and bad news (That) stories affecting parents and

children in the Durham Region or around the rest of Canada.   

This

• Imagine if, when schoolkids were being taught about their so called abortion rights, it was also required that they be taught about the science of fetal development. Check out Baby Olivia, a tool recently developed in the USA to do just that. Click Here.... How might this impact youth who engage in unsafe sex and their decisions about whether to abort or not?
  

 ‘n That

• Lax discipline by school authorities is the leading cause of violence in Peel Region schools.Click Here...
  

• Police are being welcomed back into schools plagued by drugs and violence. Click Here....
  
  

• No one is safe:

1. Sadly, even in a Catholic school, students who speak up against transgenderism and girls rights to their own washrooms can be cancelled too. Click Here....

2. Even school trustees cannot express their opinions freely. Click Here....

What’s Happening at DDSB and DCDSB?

DDSB Concerned Parents - , an informal networking group, are calling for our two school boards to provide evidence that the Board's DEI initiatives are being effective in improving academic performance, safety and well being for the student population of Durham public schools. For their email to the DDSB  Click Here...

• Please help. Send your own email to the DDSB supporting DDSB Concerned Parents. Use our sample email, or your own words, to write to the Board Chair, Director of Education and your own trustee. Email addresses are supplied Click Here...

Ideas Matter – the OSSTF (Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation) put out a regular magazine for their members. Worth noting – in their second issue of 2024 11 out of 14 articles dealt with promoting so called progressive ideologies.

Noticeably absent – any mention to teachers that their primary role is to give children entrusted to their care, skills and knowledge which will prepare them for success in life and to compete in a competitive world?

The Scoop

• Letters and stories to the Editor – the Back2Basics editorial team welcome letters on any topic pertaining to excellence in education and children’s school experiences.
  Letters and stories must be no longer than 250 words. The writer must state full name and city of residence, although this will not be published. To be publishable the letters need to be polite and constructive.  
  
  

• Classified Ad – The B2B Promotions Team is looking for additional volunteer team members. Duties could include phone calling, visits and making presentations to small groups. If interested, please Click Here.....to fill in the application form and you will be contacted directly.
  
  

• Stay Informed – to keep up to date with B2B’s current news and views, please click the button below.

Recommended Reads

& Vital Views

 Read

Shepherds for Sale - Megan Basham, (243 pages, available on Amazon). The church is the final solid defense against so called progressive thinking in North America. Imagine a world in which generously funded left leaning foundations are using their wealth to subvert the leadership of previously rock-solid church institutions. This is a must read.

 Watch

• 15 mins - The Government of Canada funding groups going after parents who oppose transgenderism.  View Here....

• 28 mins - “You need to know what your kids are being taught”. Belinda Brown being interviewed on British Thought Leaders View Here....

• 10 mins - David Todor, a Waterloo District School Board parent describes how schools sexualize children View Here...

• 1.5 mins – Revealing how responsibility  for children being sterilized unnecessarily is denied at each level. Who Sterilized me? View Here...

Make a Vital Difference

Back2Basics is a grassroots movement that will only succeed if we all join hands and work together to achieve our goals.

Here are some ways in which you can make a vital difference:

Contribute

As we grow our financial needs are growing too. Help us afford to do what needs to be done to succeed. Your monthly gift would be particularly appreciated. (Gifts are not tax receiptable).

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Fun & Humor with a Twist

• A fun send off View Here....

• Modern Educaysun…with a wicked twist View Here...

It’s all good for a chuckle. Enjoy

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