OpEd

From dreams to disaster- a deceptive academic game in Canada

Imagine a society where dreams disappear, ambitions crumble, and the chase of educational attainment has become bound to an illusionary web. This world welcomes ambitious students into the dark side of admission fraud, in which illusions reign supreme and innocent people pay the price. Unscrupulous men cloak themselves as guardians and exploit the vulnerable hearts …

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Operation Varsity Blues

Money indeed gives the wealthy access to certain spaces that other people can’t have. An example of one such space is – Education. In today’s world, education has become a commodity; one can even say that it has become one of the major avenues for people to capitalize on. The recent college admissions scandal in …

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Speaking What Ought Not To Be Spoken

A societal structure exists of narratives and counter-narratives, which ultimately lead to a person choosing freely what they wish to believe in. While the structure should ideally support itself and bring forth an age of liberal individuals, some nuances to these narratives deter society from attaining this age. Children do not develop the cognitive skills …

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The Costs of a Crisis

It’s 2019. Lakhan* comes home from school. He eats his lunch in a rush and leaves to meet me in the park where I teach him. We go over Linear Equations in Two Variables and Acids, Bases, and Salts. He remarks that none of these things are things that he is actually interested in. I …

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