Unsplash/Ben Hershey, CC BYNick Holt, University of Alberta

Youth sport is part of the fabric of family life for many families.

The current debate about the Confucius Institute focuses primarily on whether a nation that restricts discussion about its human rights record should be given a select place within New Brunswick schools to promote its language and culture (and by extension a highly selective understanding of Chinese politics and history). This is an important, and long overdue, conversation. But this focus belies a larger issue: our province’s delegation of educational programming to organizations that are outside of the education system. 

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