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Originally Posted by 4X4
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.
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We live in the same riding. To be honest I was a little bit happy to see him bring up internet learning. There are some big advances in that area, and while I don't think its the great panacea he seems to, it could help Alberta deal with some class size issues, or maybe help some kids learn really specialised topics from the 'one' teacher who is an expert and that sort of thing. His campaign is basically nothing though...he'll be slaughtered on Monday.
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Originally Posted by GGG
If I want to vote against uquhart who has the best chance of beating her. Honestly I dont care what the other person policies are I just want someone who stands for something instead of a chemeleon who does nothing. I though it was hilariously representitive of her useless time on council that in Rick Bells who votes to spend money she came in at exactly 50%.
Anyway do any of the other people running have a chance?
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Unfortunately no. I have a fair amount of regret for not running to be honest, partly because I am far from impressed with our choices and partly because residents here deserve a legitimate choice of a differing viewpoint. Maybe in 2017.
I haven't decided which to vote for personally. I'm leaning Sorokoski at this point, but its like a choice between two people with no opinion on anything and no real solutions either. Then some of the things they want to do...its just so far down my list of priorities! Frisch was talking about resurfacing the playgrounds to ,make them more handicap accessible. Honestly, that's laudable and noble. I'm not so much against it as I just don't know how you justify spending roughly $40,000 per playground in the wards when there are so many other issues. A councillor here ought to be concerned with traffic, transit and where the thousands of other commuters will go once they redo Shawnee Slopes and start building Providence. Start there, and work your way to issues like playground access.