Azim Essaji (he/him)
aessaji.bsky.social
Azim Essaji (he/him)
@aessaji.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Economics
Wilfrid Laurier University
Views expressed are not of my employer; sometimes, they're not even my own
One's claim to fame is being a first lady with an acid tongue. The other is a much-beloved basketball coach who won 12 NCAA championships. How is this a choice again?
December 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Looks like it might be fake, guys. Sorry.
December 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thank you. I'm going to pull it. I thought the ASC was an official-ish body, but they're not.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I don't know what the exact role of the Alberta School Councils is, but they have it on their website, and it looks pretty official to me:

www.albertaschoolcouncils.ca/education-in...
Letters to Parents from Education Minister
Alberta School Councils' Association
www.albertaschoolcouncils.ca
December 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Didn't know you were in, otherwise I would've dropped by to commiserate. It was so, so bad.
December 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
To be clear, I'm not saying that young people aren't turning to the church. I'm just saying that the story was shoddy and unserious. /end
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
For the 15-24 year olds, place of worship is more likely to mean mosque, temple, gurudwara, shul than for the 25-64 cohort. So the stats presented provide no support for the idea that young people are flooding back to the churches. 5/
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
...but just stopped going as they got older. But also, there was the galling assumption that place of worship meant church. Today's 15-24 year olds are from more diverse backgrounds than the group of 25-64 year olds. 4/
December 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
She then claimed that there had been a seven percentage point increase in church attendance in the 15-24 year old group. Of course, this means nothing of the sort. For all we know, previous cohorts of 15-24 year olds attended at rates higher than 22%.... 3/
December 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM