Catholic school funding 5

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Mon, 2008-11-24 16:11

remind

Jans' post of:

Quote:
I would be very interested in reading of this individual's
intergration work in Ireland. I too am interested in what is happening
to Prue.

At this point , what Prue has advocated is to allow the membership
to debate this policy idea. I think it is very democratic of him and
shows leadership. It also makes me realize that some on the executive
are concerned that it might well get wide support and thus the
prevention of allowing this to come to the floor for debate in the last
4 conventions. That's very sad for a political party to prides itself
on grassroots democracy.

is a good place to start a new thread, as the exploring of why would the executive block it coming to the convention floor for debate is needed, IMV.

Mon, 2008-11-24 17:47

Unionist

Where is Scott Piatkowski when we need him? He could shed some light.

Mon, 2008-11-24 18:00

Fidel

The roots of discord over religious schools

Quote:

"... Irish beggars are to be met everywhere, and they are as ignorant and vicious as they are poor. They are lazy, improvident and unthankful; they fill our poorhouses and our prisons, and are as brutish in their superstition as Hindoos."– Newspaper editor George Brown

In 1844, Egerton Ryerson, an English-born Methodist, became chief superintendent of schools for Upper Canada (Ontario), charged with setting up a system of "common" or public schools. By public, read Protestant. A few Catholic schools run by the church and paid for by the community would be allowed on the side.

Ryerson promised that a public system would prevent a "pestilence of social insubordination and disorder" being spread by the "untaught and idle pauper immigration."[/quote]

Ignorant old bastards they were. The halls of power needed cleaning out long ago.

Sat, 2021-11-27 13:31

jfb

Tue, 2008-11-25 01:25

Unionist

janfromthebruce wrote:

Thanks goodness we are living in the 21st century.

It's not obvious from reading these threads.

Tue, 2008-11-25 01:45

Fidel

I thought so, too. Old politicks were made new again in Ontario for the last week of an election campaign. And a nineteenth century electoral system gave us a 22 percent dictatorship. Good things grow in old Ontario. So does child poverty.

Tue, 2008-11-25 02:16

peterjcassidy peterjcassidy's picture

There are ways to get a resolution to the floor, just as there are ways to block tf. The left has to be smart to win. Yes, We can.

Tue, 2008-11-25 02:21

Unionist

Since when do convention resolutions dictate party policy? Times must have changed since I left the NDP over that very issue. I'll see it when I believe it.

Inviting the priests to leave the public schools doesn't require a convention debate. It just requires a slim dose of courage, clearly lacking in all the likely candidates for party leader.

Tue, 2008-11-25 08:02

Lard Tunderin Jeezus Lard Tunderin Jeezus's picture

Quote:

"... Irish beggars are to be met everywhere, and they are as ignorant and vicious as they are poor. They are lazy, improvident and unthankful; they fill our poorhouses and our prisons, and are as brutish in their superstition as Hindoos."– Newspaper editor George Brown

The more things change, eh? Maybe old Egerton Ryerson was right:

Quote:

"Ireland plans to impose tough new penalties on beggars for the first time since the Potato Famine 160 years ago.Justice Minister Dermot Ahern says the measure is necessary because of the growth of professional begging gangs who harass pedestrians. Children often are involved.

Now can we leave the Irish out of this, please? This is distracting nonsense. There is only one religion which has its indoctrination funded by the public purse. It is neither exclusively nor predominantly Irish today.

Tue, 2008-11-25 12:11

#10

riffraffrenegade

Regarding Prue, sorry, Jan, I should have said ONDP executive I guess, not membership. Yes, it is worrisome that the executive doesn't want this issue to be debated. And yes Prue should be commended.

I think that the Catholic trustees and teachers associations know that if any of the three major political parties put this in their platform, it will be game over. The Catholic trustees and teachers association don't want anybody talking about Catholic school funding or one school system. I'm sure every politician and Priest in the province is watching Prue and the ONDP executive to see what happens.
They know that a lot has changed since 1844 and 1984. Ontarians have seen what declining birth rates and four school systems has meant to the quality of public education and the viability of many communities. A lot changed with the 2007 campaign. Now more people realize its not just Catholic ratepayers who pay for Catholic schools. Now a greater number of voters realize that amalgamation could actually happen and that number is growing daily. People know that Newfoundland & Quebec have paved the way. School boards and individual school councils are passing motions in favour of one school system. Catholic parents sit on these councils.

The people of this province will make education funding a major issue in the next municipal and provincial elections whether the ONDP executive or McGuinty, Wynn & Co want it or not. And it's not going to be easy and it's not going to be pretty sometimes. I am just hoping that a few of our political leaders can see that we should be informed by Canada's history, not bound by it. I hope they recognize that we shouldn't prop up or bailout one of our many failing traditional Christian churches due to misplaced political correctness.

I, like you Jan, realize the critical nature of this issue and its many ramifications. I think the demise of the publicly funded Catholic school system is inevitable. The problem is that if we let this go even one more generation, we will be destroying communities and have nothing left to the public system.

Sat, 2021-11-27 13:31

#11

jfb

Wed, 2008-11-26 21:23

#12

Lost in Bruce County

riffraffrenegade wrote:
I think that the Catholic trustees and teachers associations know that if any of the three major political parties put this in their platform, it will be game over.

Recently, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that shutting down Catholic schools is something Catholic teachers would support! If we stopped paying for the administration and maintenance costs of the Catholic system a lot of money would be freed up, and I mean A LOT. Thus, more jobs for teachers, more funding for students, lower student to teacher ratios, etc. Everybody wins! But the big seller is JOBS.... oh and quality education (sadly this is least considered in many debates). For most Catholic teachers there's no question if it comes down to Jobs or praying to God you had a job.... though I gotta wonder, what would Jesus do?

Wed, 2008-11-26 22:27

#13

Summer

janfromthebruce wrote:

Our kids live together and play together in their communities, let's have them learn together too!

Did this used to be in your signature line and with the new interface it just looks like part of your post?

Because everytime I read it, I just think of the reverend's wife in the Simpsons yelling "Won't someone please think of the children?!" IMHO It reduces your post to a catchphrase, makes you sound repetitive and minimizes the effect of whatever you are trying to say.

Wed, 2008-11-26 23:15

#14

Unionist

IMHO I disagree. Jan has made invaluable contributions to the subject matter of these threads, and her signature line is a tasteful and non-adversarial summation of the basic thrust of her argument (with which I happen to agree).

Speaking of the subject matter of these threads, did you have any opinions about that, Summer?

Sat, 2021-11-27 13:31

#15

jfb

Thu, 2008-11-27 08:12

#16

Lost in Bruce County

Completely off topic now, but I would like to contribute by saying Jan, one way I have seen other babbalers make their slogan appear as such is to make a line with your dash key above the quote eg/

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Our kids live together and play together....

Sat, 2021-11-27 13:32

#17

jfb

Thu, 2008-11-27 16:01

#18

Fidel

Catholics flee Liberals in droves ...

but choose conservatives as an alternative

Thu, 2008-11-27 16:17

#19

Lard Tunderin Jeezus Lard Tunderin Jeezus's picture

The most frightening thing about that article isn't the stats, but the comments that follow.

Thu, 2008-11-27 16:23

#20

Fidel

They're not bad people really, just a little misinformed and clinging to tradition. As much as I'd like to see them use their heads with issues surrounding SSM, I'd like for "Christians" in Canada to examine the two old line parties' records in power and how it's affected their god damned communal values and such. Stupid bastards anyway.

Thu, 2008-11-27 16:45

#21

Lard Tunderin Jeezus Lard Tunderin Jeezus's picture

I can well understand the thought that the patriarchal Conservatives are the 'family' oriented party for a Christian traditionalist, but how they ever claim that the Conservatives aren't complete sell-outs to corporate interests just boggles the brain...

Thu, 2008-11-27 17:17

#22

Fidel

And it's why I think there is little the NDP could do to appeal to those voters - that 22 percent of registered Canadian voters who elected Harper nationally and 22 percent in Ontario who elected McGuinty. I think even if we did have someone named Jesus Christ leading the ONDP, it'd still be a tossup with this whacky electoral system steering a lunatic fringe of voters to vote old line party religiously.

Sat, 2021-11-27 13:32

#23

jfb

Sat, 2008-11-29 00:27

#24

Fidel

There were non-Catholics attending the same Catholic school I did. No room for them in the all public system then. They werent forced to pray or anything so oppressive.

Sat, 2008-11-29 00:31

#25

Unionist

What did they do while the Catholic kids prayed?

Sat, 2008-11-29 00:48

#26

Fidel

They usually went to the library down the hall.

Sat, 2008-11-29 10:05

#27

riffraffrenegade

In my town of 5,800 we have a secular elementary school, a Catholic elementary school and a secular high school. The secular PS is over 100 years old and two years ago got funding to repair and paint the exterior stucco. About 7 years ago, even though they were facing declining enrollment, St. Joe's elementary got funding to do away with a few portables, fully renovate and further expand their school.

Today St. Joe's student population is half non-Catholic....they're the ones that when trotted off to Mass during school hours cross their arms over their chest and receive a blessing from the priest rather than the sacrament. The teachers there report that only one child per class goes to Mass on a regular basis. They know because they take up the Homily every Monday morning with the whole class. They say about 10 of the Catholic kids go to Mass at Christmas and Easter, the rest just don't go. In grade 8, parents of St. Joe's students, Catholic and non are told that if their children are academically inclined, they should go to the bright shiny renovated and expanded Catholic SS in the city. If they are not academically inclined, they should stay in town and go to the secular SS. Parents do as they're told figuring that the local SS can't meet their child's needs. Our PS principal gets parents coming in asking whether they should send their kids to the Catholic city school or our community SS. Non-Catholic and Catholic high school students are on buses three hours a day but hey it's one way to keep your kids out of trouble. About 150 students leave our area every school day for the city. Most go to the Catholic school, some are going for French immersion others go to private schools.

Teachers at the two elementary schools compare notes, it's a small town. Their opinion is that the secular school has more kids with more pronounced learning disabilities, have less resources but do more for those kids. Our high school does more for the "non-academically inclined" students than St. Joe's every did. David Thomas, the director of education for the Upper Canada DSB says that our board has become the go-to board for kids with special needs. The less PC among us would suggest that it is a dumping ground.

Were it not for the library, our secular PS could close its second floor. We have a student population of about 246. St. Joe's has about 450 students. Our high school has about 525 students. The board is trying to sustain the highschools so has decided that grades 7 and 8 will be moved to the high schools as enrollment declines. This will put our PS under the magic number (200) and it will be slated for closure or will become a "community hub" or be absorbed into the highschool as well and become a JK to Grade 12 facility. We already have one of those in our board and a few more are already in the works.

Stop the insanity.

Sun, 2008-11-30 03:35

#28

George Victor

On the evidence presented by riffraff, the secular institutions are suffering (increasingly) from having to care for the school area's most intellectually disadvanteged.

This would lead to stigmatization of its graduates, and is in itself justification for combining the two systems. But within the combined school system, there would also be a sorting process, a "streaming".

Would you care to further discuss your school district's dilemma from this micro perspective, riffraff. What do teachers say about streaming and stigmatization - whatever the structural situation. A very human and limiting part of the problem.

Or have I focused on only a small - and not so important - piece of the overall problem as you see it?

Sun, 2008-11-30 11:25

#29

riffraffrenegade

George, I think this is a critical issue. Disabled people remain the poorest of the poor. I fully support integration of children with disabilities. I see this as no different an issue than racial or religious integration. I do not have a child with an identified disability. But I worked as an occupational therapist for 20 years in the community, as adjunct faculty at Queen's and in research with colleagues in the Canadian Independent Living Movement and Disabled Peoples International. So I am not your average parent (in that regard only!) Since deciding to be at home with my kids, I am behind on the literature. I have never worked as an OT in the school system so can only comment as an active parent volunteer within one secular public school.

IMHO where integration of children with disabilities is failing miserably is in the first few years of school. There is inadequate funding for timely assessment/ diagnosis and intervention/support. To get an EA in the classroom, a child must have pretty severe physical limitations or behavioural issues. Your average child with a learning disability or those children who come from very socially disadvantage families don't get an EA. Naturally, parents take a look at the disruption taking place in their children's classrooms and wonder how it's affecting their child's learning experience. Some look for a way out.

But teachers teach differently than when we were kids. My eldest son has been in split classes all along. Within our small school, there are three classes with grade 4 students where kids are streamed according to academic and social abilities. Yes, the kids in the lower streams risk stigmatization but they also get to take on leadership roles that they would never have had in a single grade classroom. Besides splitting the classes, in grade 2 they had my son spend the mornings with the grade 3 / 4 class for reading. This did not involve the hounding of an overbearing parent, we didn't find out about it til a month in. In grade 3, his science teacher saw that he handled the grade 3 science curriculum with ease so he was encouraged to go beyond that (within his own class) and mastered the grade 6 science curriculum for the same module. He's in Gr 4 (a 4/5 split) right now and is tackling grade 7 spelling. He's doing this all within a classroom where older kids with pretty involved learning disabilities are also thriving. He doesn't think twice about the fact that John needs a computer to write or Jack only reads at a grade 2 level because of inadequate ESL. (He does wonder why Jack isn't getting more help.) These kids happen to be two of his favourite playmates..... And on top of all that, in this small community, his two very best friends are Muslim and Buddhist.

A society can't legislate a change in parental attitude or prejudice toward disability, race, or religion. It can't force parents to care as deeply about their neighbours' children as their own. But Ontario can reduce duplication and inefficiencies, provide caring teachers with adequate resources, and integrate children so they can do what comes naturally.

Another way too long post. Sorry!

Sun, 2008-11-30 14:40

#30

George Victor

Another way too long post. Sorry!

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As a retired guy with a B Ed. and a son-in-law actively teaching, and husband of a retired teacher, I stand in awe of your knowledge and commitment. Your analysis is bang on.

Now, it is a question of funding - which isn't going to blossom forth in this depressed economy. But I spent two years helping my ever-loving give an adequate reading program to her Grade 2s (and, yes, if they're not sailing by the end of primary, it all gets very struggly) and felt that old retired farts from outside the system could be just the assist needed in the reading program. Guided reading for sure, in ability groupings (if not the phonics instruction). Just think, phonics is "in" again.

I stand in awe of the new techniques mastered by the son-in-law, the individual-centered instruction. The no nonsense in the room expectations creating a reasonably quiet atmosphere for learning (at senior gaaaaa elementary level).

There used to be streaming, entering a vocational or academic course stream at grade 9. And it is becoming evident that the people learning trade skills and entering apprenticeships will have it made in the shade of the evolving service economy.

Public school systems must again become trusted to do the job by performance. And while the McGinty group have upped spending on education, we are still trying to overcome the rot of the common sense mobsters.

Maybe the unfolding crises will make integration necessary?

Sat, 2008-12-13 19:24

#31

Lord Palmerston

So has Paul Miller, MPP in the heavily Catholic riding of Hamilton East-Stoney Creek, just committed political suicide for supporitng that dangerous radical Michael Prue?

Mon, 2009-11-09 08:08

#32

Unionist

[url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/low-birth-rates-put-hundred... birth rates put hundreds of Ontario schools at risk of closing[/color][/url]

Tue, 2010-05-11 10:18

#33

Unionist

I love this story:

[url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/jobless-non-religio..., non-religious teachers turn to Catholicism in attempt for employment[/url]

With the Vatican falling on hard times, this may be just the kind of good-news story they need!

Tue, 2010-05-11 13:45

#34

lepidoptera

It's interesting how "goofy" this all is.

- Children must be Catholic (supported by a baptismal cert) to attend Catholic elementary schools ( unless they are lucky enough to apply to an under enrolled school where they will accepted regardless of their religion because of the holy enrolment grant that comes with them)

- Teachers at that school must be Catholic supported by a baptismal cert and/or faith portfolio

- in high school, all children must be accepted regardless of religion, but teachers in those Cath high school must be Catholic.

- to run as a Catholic trustee you must legally be Catholic, supported by nothing but a check mark in the right box

- therefore...your non catholic children could legally be attending a Cath high school but you can't run for a position on the board because you are not Catholic unless of course you lie about being catholic...but then you could be forgiven for lying...next Sunday.....what!

- we should all run for a position on the catholic school board, on a one school system platform, in the up coming municipal election and really mess with them....here's the how to manual http://cripeweb.org:80/A_run_for_the_Catholic_Board_1.html

Sat, 2012-01-14 16:26

#35

Unionist

[url=http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/education/article/1115602--funding-fo... for Ontario Catholic schools under fire in court challenge[/url]

Sat, 2021-11-27 13:33

#36

jfb

Mon, 2012-01-16 19:00

#37

MCsquared

Ontario has been there done that got the T-shirt. Move on nothing to see here.

Tue, 2012-01-17 02:43

#38

M. Spector M. Spector's picture

MCsquared wrote:

Ontario has been there done that got the T-shirt. Move on nothing to see here.

What the fuck is that supposed to mean?

Thu, 2012-01-19 18:29

#39

MCsquared

It means that there has already been two Court cases on this matter, both have already gone to the Supreme Court of Canada and the constitutionality of Catholic school funding was upheld. And private religious school funding was denied on a constitutional basis. That is " what the fuck" it means.

Thu, 2012-01-19 21:18

#40

Unionist

Fidel, the Church may need an expert witness.

Thu, 2012-01-19 21:19

#41

Fidel

Unionist wrote:

[url=http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/education/article/1115602--funding-fo... for Ontario Catholic schools under fire in court challenge[/url]

Reva Landau wrote:
Today, she argues, almost all education funding comes from general public funds - but should revert to the 1867 guarantees.

Her court challenge also says she is "forced to fund ... a particular religious education system which propagates policies of which she does not approve."

1867? Hey why not revert to the health care funding formula as per Constitution of 1867 while we're on a roll?

Why not reach back even further to, say, Greco-Roman funding rules for education and health care?

Better yet Hammurabi's code of ancient Babylon. Now we're cookin' with gas.

Thu, 2012-01-19 21:20

#42

Fidel

Is this about money again per chance?

Wed, 2012-10-17 13:44

#43

Unionist

[url=http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/10/17/catholic-school-funding-unconsti... school funding unconstitutional, woman argues in court challenge[/url]

Wed, 2012-10-17 18:32

#44

Fidel

Catholic Schools get As.

Wed, 2012-10-17 21:03

#45

Unionist

Fidel wrote:

Catholic Schools get As.

LOL - the author of that phony study is the same Professor David Johnson who did [url=http://postmediavancouversun.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/ebrief_74.pdf]a... "study"[/url] showing the harm done to children (especially, oh, the poor children) by teachers' strikes. In case the McGuinty Liberals, great champions of workers' rights, didn't go to a top-notch Catholic school and couldn't understand the good professor's subtle message, he spelled it out for them:

Quote:
School work stoppages lower the pass rate on EQAO assessments. The result is much larger in Grade 6 than in Grade 3, much larger on mathematics assessments than on reading and writing assessments and much larger in schools with students who tend to face more serious challenges achieving academic success. Impacts are likely to be similar across other provinces. Thus, this research shows very clearly that in elementary schools the most disadvantaged in society are those hurt most by work stoppages.

Measuring the impact of work stoppages, as done in this study, will provide sobering perspective to all parties in labour disputes in the education system as well as valuable information to government decisionmakers about when and whether to intervene in them.

Got any more two-bit phony scholars to prove the inestimable value of Catholic schools, Fidel?

Tue, 2012-11-06 08:33

#46

OL12

Unionist wrote:
I love this story:

[url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/jobless-non-religio..., non-religious teachers turn to Catholicism in attempt for employment[/url]

With the Vatican falling on hard times, this may be just the kind of good-news story they need!

Isn't it despicable that people have to resort to this in a modern democracy -- especially one that likes to point out other countries failings.

Your rights are determined by the "colour" of your faith, with those of the preferred faith getting more even though they suffer no disadvantage that might warrant their special treatment.

I attended Church regularly when my kids were young (some people take personal responsibility for the spiritual education of their children rather than abdicating that responsibility to the state). I actually considered conversion to Catholicism to get the kids into the local Catholic school in order to escape an extreme overcrowding situation at my local public school. My non-Catholic/heathen kids were rejected, forcing us to pay for a private school for two years. Our Catholic neighbours could escape that overcrowding situation for free by virtue of their superior rights and choices under Ontario law.

What other countries and jurisdictions favour one faith over all others in law? Saudi Arabia? Israel? Indonesia? Pakistan? Afghanistan? ... and Ontario, Canada.

We should be proud, shouldn't we?

Tue, 2012-11-06 08:40

#47

OL12

MCsquared wrote:
Ontario has been there done that got the T-shirt. Move on nothing to see here.

If you go back and look at the Supreme Court cases of the 1980s, you'll see they only ruled that Ontario had the authority to fund Catholic high schools, not that it was compelled to do so. That's what the case was about. They based their decision largely on the existence of a "constitutional compromise/deal" that saw denominational school rights granted to religious minorities in both Quebec and Ontario. Quebec eliminated public funding for denominational schools over a decade ago, which means that the "deal" has now been ripped up by one of the parties. Thus the legal basis for the Supreme Courts 1980s decisions no longer holds. Conditions are ripe for another challenge. The challenge for the justices of the Supreme Court will be to come up with another excuse for Ontario Catholics to have greater civil rights (in education) than anyone else. They'll need to come up with a new excuse for non-fundamental and exclusively Catholic denominational school "rights" to trump everyone else's fundamental right to equality.

Tue, 2012-11-06 08:47

#48

OL12

Fidel wrote:
Is this about money again per chance?

That is certainly a big part of it. How can Ontario justify funding massive duplication and waste in the school system when it cannot properly fund our truly essential programs?

In Ontario, almost without exception, the smaller the school board and the more geographically dispersed its schools and students, the higher the per pupil funding. This pattern certainly holds in Ottawa:

School board funding for Ottawa school boards, 2012-13 Ministry figures (projected):

Source: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/funding/1213/funding12.pdf

School board           Total funding   Total enrolment   Cost per pupil

English public (EP)    $724,207,148    66,926            $10,821

English Catholic (EC) $403,135,523    35,510            $11,352 (EP + $531)

French Catholic (FC)   $250,070,875    18,914            $13,221

French public (FP)     $162,860,654    10,887            $14,959 (FC + $1738)

Per pupil funding for the English Catholic, French Catholic, and French public school boards is respectively 4.9%, 22.2%, and 38.2% higher than for the English public board. The smaller French public school board receives 13.1% more per pupil than its French Catholic counterpart.

This is not favouritism. This is the Ministry of Education recognizing – right in the funding formula – that smaller school boards are unable to realize the same efficiencies and economies as their larger counterparts in the same area. It is proof that our smaller school boards cost significantly more money to run.

Under one school system, the per pupil cost in each system would certainly be no higher than the lower cost on each of the English and the French sides. Thus the savings from going to one school system in Ottawa on the English side alone total at least $531 x 35,510 English Catholic students = $18,855,810 per year. On the French side, at least $1,738 x 10,887 French public students = $18,921,606 would be saved.

The total savings would actually be even higher, however, as the geographic densities of schools and students in the larger English and French boards are also not as high as they would be under one system. The cost to deliver education of the same quality as now under one school system is certainly less than the current $10,821 on the English side (as even the English public board is not as efficient as it would be under one school system) and less than $13,221 on the French side. The savings could be reinvested into improving education for all children.

Public-Catholic board mergers would also allow Ontario to neatly rationalize the hundreds of thousands of excess pupil places in Ontario schools – many of these in severely under enrolled schools that are less cost effective to operate than full schools. While merging overlapping school boards, the successor boards could combine adjacent, under enrolled public and Catholic schools while cherry picking the best schools from each of the predecessor boards’ inventories. The lower operating costs realized by shedding the oldest and most costly properties would provide a system wide savings that would last for decades. It would also create more cost effective full schools in many communities where two more costly half empty schools existed previously. The combination of under enrolled schools would also significantly reduce the prevalence of split grade classes as the splits in adjacent under enrolled schools were combined in one school.

Not all of the benefits of merging our school systems are financial. By combining adjacent under enrolled schools, schools that now cannot achieve the critical mass for many programs and courses would do so, broadening academic opportunities for all students. In its reports, People for Education consistently bemoans the disadvantages faced by smaller schools in terms of programming, but the fact is many of these disadvantages are a direct consequence of our school system’s crazy, unnecessarily fractured organization.

Thu, 2012-12-20 22:15

#49

Fidel

First they came for our social programs. Then they attacked separate school funding. We wouldn't be talking about money and "Catholic school funding" had our corrupt stooges not handed off the remaining powers of money creation to private and foreign bankers by 1991.

We say "Catholic school funding" now, but the bastards really don't like public funding of any worthy cause. Feast your eyes on the teachers unions reports and on what GATS is all about over the long haul. The neolib bastards eventually want to end public funding of schools in general.

Yes there is a dead rat under the floorboards long time in this country. The country has experienced a prolonged period of deindustrialization at a frenzied pace ever since.

And this just in from the absentee corporate landlords running Ontario into the ground report:

Oshawa loses 1000 manufacturing jobs to Michigan (and 9 spinoff jobs for every manufacturing job to follow)

More job losses and potentially even more disgruntled voters.

Does anyone actually believe that stopping public funding of separate schools will somehow fix the whopping annual budget deficit in Ontario? Not a snowball's chance!

Thu, 2012-12-20 22:33

#50

Unionist

I have never supported the argument that we should eliminate public funding of religious schools to save money.

If getting rid of religious public schools cost more than leaving them be, it would still be worth it.

Thu, 2012-12-20 22:57

#51

Fidel

Unionist wrote:

I have never supported the argument that we should eliminate public funding of religious schools to save money.

Good, because you wouldn't have much of an argument with people like me who understand the deliberate attempts to strangle public funding in general for political reasons in this and other countries.

Unionist wrote:
If getting rid of religious public schools cost more than leaving them be, it would still be worth it.

I'm for leaving them be. So whatever it is that's "worth it" must be good enough for you regardless of everything else that matters.

There are very many things that are broken in the province of Ontario besides a lack of school funding. So many issues and going concerns it's not even funny anymore. Curious as to why youre so hot to trot on defunding something that actually does work. Is it down to something that a Church worker did to some kids 40 years ago? Is it because of that house/palace arrest of Galileo on the Church payroll way back when? What? Why should we defund a style of education that works and namely in the here and now, in your opinion?

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