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Originally Posted by Ashartus
I know others in your situation and that's why I'm OK with some funding to private schools - really a better choice would be to fix the public system so kids like that could get the support they need but that would not be a short fix even if the government was willing (and they are not).
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Funding private schools takes money away from funding for public schools. If private schools can operate profitably without public assistance and produce good results on their own then great. If they can’t then there is no reason to be using tax dollars to fund them.
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However the government have been pretty clear that they won't allow any arbitration to include class size/complexity which is the main issue. They still haven't responded to the latest ATA offer even, and apparently their negotiators say they aren't available to come back to the table right now (despite Smith's claims about possibility of settling before Monday). So in the end students will have lost 3+ weeks of school and none of the main problems will have been addressed. This is fully on the UCP.
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Anyone with any experience in collective bargaining arbitrations will tell you that the government are just posturing here to make it look like they’re in charge. Even if the government didn’t make that manipulative threat the chance of an arbitrator making systemic changes to how a business operates are slim to none. The arbitrator will likely award teachers more money with no other major changes and the UCP knowing this are essentially setting the teachers up to look like they were being greedy and didn’t really care about class sizes.