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Originally Posted by Handsome B. Wonderful
Yes, that worked out so well for removing waste in the health care system.
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Originally Posted by Azure
A single board would just deflects the problem, again....which is exactly what happened with the health care system.
Firing teachers is a rather strange way of 'cutting expenses.' What are they gonna save? A few million?
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I know, its such an obvious flaw in my thought! Thing is that we pay and fund all of these local school boards around the province, and I have to think that things could be more efficient? I mean the board in Calgary has a governance model (Carver model if anyone is interested) which is basically one where the admin runs everything anyway. Now factor in the incredible apathy for these elections; the most common question people have isn't what you would do as a platform or anything like that....its what in the world is a public school trustee? People have no idea what they're voting for despite the candidates valiant attempts.
On top of this systematic failing we have two school boards here that provide the exact same education...except for an hour a week? When I was young I always wondered what was going on in Catholic schools. It must be so different, I would think to myself. A few years later in talking to some Catholic school attending friends the secret was out - its almost the exact same! We spend millions of dollars though, building two schools where one big one would be fine, hiring two sets of administration where one would be its equal and of course duplicating everything else through the system. Utter stupidity. We set aside two parcels of land, to build everything from scratch; playgrounds, football fields, and obviously the schools themselves. We spend money to maintain both facilities and have parents fundraise for both entities as well.