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Originally Posted by Slava

As some of you may have seen if you follow me on twitter, I sent a questionnaire to all of the trustee candidates in the city. Its hard to cast a ballot for these positions. Often there is very little information, and these ballots are sometimes forgotten until you walk in and have it handed to you! Fear not CPers....I present 10 questions with all of the candidates, broken down by ward.

I asked candidates to be brief and try not to exceed 3 sentences....some were better than others at following this directive. I decided not to edit answers as I feel that quite a few people won't read the novel-type answers anyway, so its works to their disadvantage.
(I debated making a separate thread for this, but wasn't sure....)

Wards 1 & 2: http://calgarypolitics.com/2013/10/1...ee-candidates/

Wards 3 & 4: http://calgarypolitics.com/2013/10/14/651/

Wards 5 & 10: http://calgarypolitics.com/2013/10/1...ee-candidates/

Wards 6 & 7: http://calgarypolitics.com/2013/10/14/653/

Wards 8 & 9: http://calgarypolitics.com/2013/10/1...ee-candidates/

Wards 11 & 13: http://calgarypolitics.com/2013/10/1...ee-candidates/

Wards 12 & 14: http://calgarypolitics.com/2013/10/1...ee-candidates/

Hopefully this helps some people get some information on what these people think about various issues before you head to the polls!

The guy running against the incumbant in my ward is obsessed with internet schooling. This election will be the first one where I actually care about school trustee. Can't say I'm a big fan of the idea of internet schooling. Maybe that's old fashioned, and maybe I just haven't thought about it too much, but at first glance, I don't like the idea.

I think attending school with actual people is extremely important to child development. I know he's saying that just some courses should be internet based, but I still don't like it. Kids need to be around kids, and under actual supervision of teachers. Good teachers are what inspire kids. For example, I remember my 20/30 Social teacher, Mr. Tomochko. What an awesome teacher. He kept me interested in that subject because his personality, and his great teaching skills. I can imagine that a subject like Social would be the kind of subject that would theoretically become an internet based subject, and I think it would seriously take away from the class.

Tomochko was awesome at getting discussions going in class. Students would ask questions and as a group, more learning was done. And the wicked stories and tangents he'd go off on just made the class one that I never wanted to skip. Because I know what I gained from that class, I can only imagine how crappy it would have been if that class was some boring click screen lesson that I took sitting in front of a screen.

Sorry for the long post.

TL;DR, I was just rambling.