Not seeing anyone talking about the school system. Maybe it's just me.
Doug Ford mentioned public education is costing the Province of Ontario $25 billion annually. Even if Ontario is the biggest spender the industry is likely $100 billion nationwide. It's a lot of money. Is it well spent?
Can't argue that the educators have their hands full and individual attention is not always easy to give. Do we really need to send six year old children off to school in the first place is now my question. What is the real point? It's not like many are ready for anything other than to continue on learning after secondary school. Going to school is easy. Kids do it now until they are thirty. There is no accountability for the school to ensure adult preparedness. Almost the opposite where it is the responsibility of the parents to raise the children. Generation after generation is falling into this gap.
What if kids stayed home until they were eighteen and the Province of Ontario pares down it's deficit a bit? I believe the kids would be better prepared to make a career choice if they did. The automatic flow to university with no goal really only delays life.
The real trouble is that the industry now is too big to fail and it has become more about the jobs than the student development. Online education is already popular and easily accessible. The bureaucracy is out of control with all the psychologists for seven year olds and reading specialists making six figures to read "no I can't, said the ant." Educational institutions need students more than students need educational institutions.
Just saying there is very questionable value in carrying on down the same path. Parents would do a better job of preparing their child.
Everything the government puts toward education is for the benefit of the current system. When they throw more money to settle with teachers at $92,000 per it pushes the school division salary's into the $200,000. every school needs about three of those guys.
Sorry about the less than well organized rant. I hope the general idea comes across.
Sometimes we do things because that is the way we have done things even when the original objective of doing so no longer makes the sense it did in the first place.
Doug Ford mentioned public education is costing the Province of Ontario $25 billion annually. Even if Ontario is the biggest spender the industry is likely $100 billion nationwide. It's a lot of money. Is it well spent?
Can't argue that the educators have their hands full and individual attention is not always easy to give. Do we really need to send six year old children off to school in the first place is now my question. What is the real point? It's not like many are ready for anything other than to continue on learning after secondary school. Going to school is easy. Kids do it now until they are thirty. There is no accountability for the school to ensure adult preparedness. Almost the opposite where it is the responsibility of the parents to raise the children. Generation after generation is falling into this gap.
What if kids stayed home until they were eighteen and the Province of Ontario pares down it's deficit a bit? I believe the kids would be better prepared to make a career choice if they did. The automatic flow to university with no goal really only delays life.
The real trouble is that the industry now is too big to fail and it has become more about the jobs than the student development. Online education is already popular and easily accessible. The bureaucracy is out of control with all the psychologists for seven year olds and reading specialists making six figures to read "no I can't, said the ant." Educational institutions need students more than students need educational institutions.
Just saying there is very questionable value in carrying on down the same path. Parents would do a better job of preparing their child.
Everything the government puts toward education is for the benefit of the current system. When they throw more money to settle with teachers at $92,000 per it pushes the school division salary's into the $200,000. every school needs about three of those guys.
Sorry about the less than well organized rant. I hope the general idea comes across.
Sometimes we do things because that is the way we have done things even when the original objective of doing so no longer makes the sense it did in the first place.