On October 15th, 2019, I sent a letter to the Ontario Ministry of Education about Colour Theory.

The problem is the colour theory taught is Red-Yellow-Blue. This isn’t accurate. I received a response from the ministry on November 12th, 2019. I have included what I sent and the reply below.

I confess that I am disappointed. You see, the response wasn’t providing information indicating what I provided was incorrect, only that these are “suggestions for teachers” rather than mandatory. This contradicts my children’s teachers, motivating sending the email to the ministry (in fact they recommended going to the ministry).

When students make mistakes in school, we expect them to learn, improve, and hopefully make new and interesting mistakes instead of the same old ones.

What do we do when the education system is not only making a mistake, but propagates that mistake to others, then fails to remedy the issue when it is pointed out to them?