{"id":231602,"date":"2026-06-09T05:54:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231602"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:54:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:54:40","slug":"opinion-bill-to-remove-ideology-from-schools-offers-lesson-in-alberta-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231602","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Bill to remove ideology from schools offers lesson in Alberta politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children need to be taught how to think, not what to think. This is how Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides justified Bill 25, the kitchen sink-laden legislation that claims to remove politics and ideology from classrooms by addressing everything from the national anthem in schools to which flags can be displayed to who decides school names&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/edmontonjournal.com\/opinion\/columnists\/opinion-bill-to-remove-ideology-from-schools-offers-lesson-in-alberta-politics\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children need to be taught how to think, not what to think. This is how<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231602-opinion-bill-to-remove-ideology-from-schools-offers-lesson-in-alberta-politics.jpg",1200,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231602-opinion-bill-to-remove-ideology-from-schools-offers-lesson-in-alberta-politics-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231602-opinion-bill-to-remove-ideology-from-schools-offers-lesson-in-alberta-politics-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231602-opinion-bill-to-remove-ideology-from-schools-offers-lesson-in-alberta-politics-768x576.jpg",640,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231602-opinion-bill-to-remove-ideology-from-schools-offers-lesson-in-alberta-politics-1024x768.jpg",640,480,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231602-opinion-bill-to-remove-ideology-from-schools-offers-lesson-in-alberta-politics.jpg",1200,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231602-opinion-bill-to-remove-ideology-from-schools-offers-lesson-in-alberta-politics.jpg",1200,900,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231602-opinion-bill-to-remove-ideology-from-schools-offers-lesson-in-alberta-politics-1024x768.jpg",1024,768,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231602-opinion-bill-to-remove-ideology-from-schools-offers-lesson-in-alberta-politics-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231602-opinion-bill-to-remove-ideology-from-schools-offers-lesson-in-alberta-politics-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}