Gibber away, fool. lol You diss me but you are the one that can't discuss stuff reasonably, at least not without being an idiot and making huge font and adding dozens of redundant eclamation marks.
DISAGREEING WITH THE LIKES OF YOU...............................................
IS A CIVIC DUTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of the MOST PRESSING sort!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an article illustrating just how little faith the public should have in anything that teachers claim!! With some comments of my own in brackets):
Ontario teachers' union is stirring up fear with exceptionally weak arguments
It’s true that Ontario does have low per capita spending on many services, but education isn’t one of them
By Randall Denley, National Post
September 5, 2019. 6:27 PM EDT. Last Updated: September 7, 2019, 2:18 PM EDT
Filed under: Full Comment.
Ontario’s elementary teachers’ union has a scary message for parents. “Doug Ford’s cuts hurt our kids,” the union claims in a big ad campaign that includes a TV commercial, newspaper ads, social media, flyers mailed to homes, a truck displaying an electronic billboard and even a plane that flew a banner over Ford’s annual picnic.
(How odd that teachers are SPREADING A LIE - for their own benefit!! Teacher HOGS DO NOT wish to discuss how much it hurts kids to come out of high school ALREADY OWING OVER $140 thousand dollars in accumulated debt to our wasteful LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(With that $140 grand NOT INCLUDING whatever student debt the kids run up as they funnel gravy into the pockets of their HOG professors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(The GREED of teachers and other govt HOGS has mortgaged the futures of kids who are not yet even born!! Teachers do not fear national debt- unless they are asked to help pay it down!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Wow. Nobody wants to hurt kids, so what are these cuts the union is talking about, and how will they harm children?
The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario points to what it calls three key priorities at the bargaining table. The first is protecting full-day kindergarten, which it says the government is “putting at risk.” This is likely to be an easy victory for the union, because there is no government plan to eliminate full-day kindergarten or to expand class sizes or increase caps. To be fair, the premier did create some confusion back in January, when he refused to guarantee the program after this school year. That was subsequently walked back by the education minister and the no-change policy was confirmed again this week.
(The REALITY is that we do not need costly union HOG teachers paid at $100 grand per year- NOT INCLUDING solid gold pensions- to tie little kids shoe laces or help them on with coats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(It was the LIE-beral vote buying mania that prompted LIE-berals to hire teachers to tend to toddlers instead of letting LOWER COST Early Childhood Education workers tend to those shoe laces and etc!! LIE-berals have offered a straight up BRIBE to HOG unions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Opinion: Doug Ford’s Ontario government spent billions more than Wynne had planned in 2018-19
(But HOGS DENY this TRUTH about Ford!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Kelly McParland: What Ford can learn from past battles with Ontario’s powerful teachers?
(Ford can learn that govt either caves in to teachers - or wins the battle and CRUSHES teacher unions!! There are NO HALF Measures here- if Ford wishes to regain control of the Ontari-owe budget then HOG unions CANNOT continue making insane GRAVY demands !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
It is interesting to note that the original plan for full-day junior kindergarten called for a teacher working a half day and the rest of the day to be covered by early childhood educators, who are trained specifically for that work. Then-premier Dalton McGuinty let the teachers’ unions persuade him that a full-time teacher was necessary, adding $500 million annually to the program’s cost. Changing back to the originally proposed staffing would be a way to save money without hurting kids. The teachers’ union wouldn’t like it so don’t expect it to happen.
(Teachers working HALF a DAY?? Have them working PART TIME like ordinary Cdns so often do?? Clearly HOGS would not accept such a deal!!!!!!!!!!!)
The elementary union also says that smaller classes are a priority. OK, but the government doesn’t plan to change primary class sizes and in Grades 4 to 8, average class sizes will increase from 23.84 to 24.5. That seems unlikely to inflict much damage on the typical student. Elementary union president Sam Hammond maintains that the tiny averaging-up is a problem, and says the intent is to show support for secondary school teachers, where class size increases are larger.
(And is it not ODD - that in the 1980`s and 1990`s - teachers thought nothing of cramming ever more kids into classrooms - IN EXCHANGE FOR GRAVY!!!!!!!!)
(So what is it that teachers really want?? OTHER than their own way on everything?? And DO WE WANT to give HOGS total control of our govt???????)
Finally, the union points to a $235 million cut in “funding for special needs supports and at-risk kids.” This reflects the end of a temporary two-year agreement the union signed with the former Liberal government. It’s definitely a reduction, but one the Liberals intended as well, and that the union agreed to. For context, the province is still spending $3 billion on special education. The gap between special education needs and funding stretches back many years.
(WE should be DEEPLY WORRIED about the number of kids being designated as special needs - since such kids DO NOT have to take the standardized govt literacy and math tests- thus HOGS are artificially BUMPING UP the education standards of our kids - so that HOGS can demand MORE GRAVY for their alleged hard work that is supported by those FAKE EQUAO test results!!!!!!!!!!!)
OK, but what about all the devastation at the Toronto District School Board, Ontario’s largest? Trustees there have approved cuts that amount to $67.8 million over two years and have placed the blame squarely on the provincial government. One trustee said the cuts would “decimate” the public education system and another said the government was “swinging a wrecking ball.”
(The UGLY REALITY is that school trustees have made their choice about who to support- and it AINT FORD OR THE GENERAL PUBLIC!! Trustees have long recognized that their jobs are easier if HOGS are happy!! Union HOGS have direct and daily ability to make life miserable for trustees but the general public is tied up in their own jobs and cannot make trouble as HOGS do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
That all sounds pretty dire, until one considers that the TDSB has a $3.4 billion annual operating budget. The cuts trustees are making amount to one per cent a year and one-third of the reductions are to correct chronic overspending. Trustees did a skilful job of finding cuts that will have little or no effect on the day-to-day functioning of schools. The biggest saving, about $17 million, came from eliminating seven superintendent positions, 13 centrally assigned principals, 15 guidance jobs and eight early reading coaches. In all, the two-year plan is considerably less than a wrecking ball.
(One must ask why trustees think superintendents are useful since any problems are usually handed over to union reps or to cops!! Cdn schools typically operate with way more superintendents than their Yankee counterparts!! LIE-berals wilL point to lower Yankee academic scores to defend their system but its another LIE!)
(The AVERAGE Yankee school gets better scores than Cdn schools- it is only the influence of those catastrophic Ghetto schools in places like Watts and Harlem and central Baltimore that drag down Yankee scores!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The overwrought response to long overdue and relatively minor education spending restraint illustrates how difficult it is to convince those in the education sector that eliminating the province’s deficit has to include them. The problem, Hammond says, is not high spending, but corporate taxes that are too low.
(Our civil service union HOGS expect to find a place where they WILL BE IMMUNE to the economic collapse engineered by LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
It’s true that Ontario does have low per capita spending on many services, but education isn’t one of them. A report this week for the Alberta government compares education budgets in the four largest provinces. Ontario spends $17,077 per student, almost $5,000 more than its nearest comparator in Quebec and nearly double what B.C. spends. Ontario also has the highest administrative spending of the four provinces, at just over 27 per cent of the education budget.
(LIE-berals are already starting a campaign to try to discredit these numbers- LIE-berals LOVE cherry picking through numbers to prove Fake News points!!!!!!!!!!)
There is ample opportunity to slow the rate of education spending growth, and to do it without hurting kids. Teachers could help. Instead, Ontario’s largest teachers’ union is stirring up fear based on exceptionally weak arguments. That’s a disservice to the children the union says it wants to protect.
Randall Denley is an Ottawa political commentator and former Ontario PC candidate. Learn about his new book Spiked at randalldenley.com.
(Civil service union HOG GREED is so severe it is crippling our society with debt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)