It's quite possible that my city houses the dumbest people in Canada. And more importantly, we house the dumbest people who elect even dumber education boards.

Here's what's basically happening: Our provincial government gave a specific amount of money to the trustees for a 3 year period and our trustees have blown too much of it on things such as speach-impaired-student helpers, "educational assistants", lunchroom supervisors, psychological assistance through grievance periods, nutrition aids...

The current arguement between provincial government and education board is P.G. saying "You're spending too much money on things that are not considered part of education!" Board - "But they should be part of education!"

Here's the kicker.

They should be part of education? Brilliant. That's just brilliant. So your government gives you a SET amount of money to spread between SPECIFIC things and you use it for other, non-related things and then call the government bad because you went outside the rules (and, actually, broke laws) and did what you felt like despite that it would cost the government potentially hundreds of millions?

God. Sometimes I wonder how Toronto functions on a day-to-day basis.

Um, somehow this got put in Art/Culture. Could someone move it for me to World Politics?

our trustees have blown too much of it on things such as speach-impaired-student helpers, "educational assistants", lunchroom supervisors, psychological assistance through grievance periods, nutrition aids...

...They should be part of education ah yes politically correct Canada, sometimes I do miss Canada, but most of the time I don't.

Isn't out city incredible Tyler? Its amazing that its still even alive with this Education Board to reer up the next generation of workers. Remember that guy who was head of the Education Board but didn't graduate from high school? (If I'm remembering correctly, but I know there was someone who was highup in the Education sector and didnt have a diploma)

The major problem in this city is the teachers. Or more accuratly, the teachers union. The trustees by definition are a board who's job is to represent the parents of students and students. Then there's this other little thingy called the teacher's union which is in place to represent the teacher's. Of course, our brilliant teacher's union whose main goal is to work as little as possible and make twice as much as a nurse has decided that the trustees being idiots and not representing parents' wishes at all is a perfect situation for them to strike, YET AGAIN, and continue to ruin school for our student. Basically, thanks to our teachers I will go through my last 6 years of public education with, at best, 1 complete year without strike.

Yea it doesn't really make sense, they try to rationalize it all by saying 'We are striking for the students' :bugeye: What the hell? Striking does not help the students! It only hurts them! A good portion of them are simply greedy men and women who already have a good holiday arrangement. I know this is simply generalizing all the teachers but I went through High School being taught by teachers who had no enthusiasm for teaching.

I don't understand why they feel they should keep getting their salary increased, perhaps if the school system was more involved in teaching they could but not as it stands. As it is now, the school system is flawed and most teachers only contribute to the problem.

Ugh, thank God I live 60 miles from there! Oh well, at least now the govornment's taken things over. This is what happens in large cities, everything's disorganized.