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Originally Posted by corporatejay
Can someone who is of the "they are pushing the private school agenda" please explain why they continually hammer the CBE but not the CSSC or the Edmonton school boards?
If you have 4 boards and 1 is a total economic cluster#### and the other three seem to be doing just fine, how is that the government being unrealistic?
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I don't know the situation of the Edmonton boards, but I think that the CSSC had some financial reserves and as a result were able to keep things rolling. The CBE doesn't have those reserves, and here we are.
To me, it's not about a political narrative though. These problems were there with the NDP in power as well. They'd make promises like "no school fees" or whatever, and then the board would complain they had no money.
I think that what happened here is that the province decided to retroactively cut the budget after saying they wouldn't. They basically said there was no need to lay off teachers and the CBE issued layoff notices. Pretty clearly, the province was not pleased with that, because it was a complete PR disaster, so the minister investigated them for financial impropriety (which I think the NDP had done as well).
Maybe the reality is there is not enough money? Most of us in this thread have been in public schools lately, and it's not like these kids are in the lap of luxury. The buildings are not well maintained, a lot of the equipment is dated (with the exception being what the parents fund raise for), and it's not as though there's an abundance of people saying there is gobs of money that's just not being spent properly.