Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[Roughneck]

Because of the lightbulbs, Fuzz.

[Regorium]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

UCP mouthpiece Bruce McAllister cut the mic of a high schooler trying to respectfully ask a question tonight and proceeded to say his parents should hit him. Danielle Smith just sat there and nodded along.

These are the people pretending to care for your kids. They think you should be spanking your teenagers if they ask a question you don’t like. Disgusting.

Probably one of the most disgusting things I've seen.

https://streamable.com/vzmcwe

Bring it on UCP shills. Tell me why a high school student is so threatening to the UCP leadership.

[Johnny Makarov]

Anyone who voted for the UCP in the past 2 elections deserves to get syphilis, gonorrhea and herpes!

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by Regorium

Probably one of the most disgusting things I've seen.

https://streamable.com/vzmcwe

Bring it on UCP shills. Tell me why a high school student is so threatening to the UCP leadership.

What a f***ing scumbag. That is absolutely shameful behaviour from a representative of the government. Dude should be fired immediately for that crap. I hope that clip goes viral.

[GranteedEV]

Originally Posted by Regorium

Probably one of the most disgusting things I've seen.

https://streamable.com/vzmcwe

Bring it on UCP shills. Tell me why a high school student is so threatening to the UCP leadership.

Fascism fullstop, imagine if they had the power of a federal government

[Nyah]

The UCP are ####ing cowards. They can't handle one question from a high school kid but expect teachers to handle 30+ in a classroom.

[puffnstuff]

Not true...there was more than just one question they couldnt handle.

[Duruss]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

clip here:
https://bsky.app/profile/thebreakdow.../3lzzl63zo7c2j


Holy #### if he isn't #### canned immediately...do Conservatives have no dignity left? How can you support these ghouls?

Because they are scum. Fascist scum and of course they have no dignity left.

[indes]

Originally Posted by FireGilbert

Crazy hearing about these big 30+ class sizes in Alberta.

My daughter’s school has a maximum class of 25 students and her current grade 3 class has 22.

My son's entire elementary school has classes over 30 with the exception of 2 split classes that are capped at 27 and the Kindergarten classes.

We also tried to switch schools because our zoning is stupid (2 schools within 5 minutes and my son gets a 1hr bus ride) but everything was closed for 4th grade.

[Hot_Flatus]

Originally Posted by FireGilbert

Crazy hearing about these big 30+ class sizes in Alberta.

My daughter’s school has a maximum class of 25 students and her current grade 3 class has 22.

There are no longer classroom caps in Alberta thanks to the UCP so this maximum you speak of is not possible. Your experience is like this because you're either private or charter, or are just in an older, boomer aged community without a feeder.

[Hot_Flatus]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

UCP mouthpiece Bruce McAllister cut the mic of a high schooler trying to respectfully ask a question tonight and proceeded to say his parents should hit him. Danielle Smith just sat there and nodded along.

These are the people pretending to care for your kids. They think you should be spanking your teenagers if they ask a question you don’t like. Disgusting.

I'm not even surprised either. Which is sad, but this is entirely why the teachers strike is where it's at. These are the people behind the scenes, in the premiers ear (not to give her a pass at all), validating her and even encouraging her to act the way she acts and pursue the matters she's pursuing.

This is exactly why the UCP was voted out previously under Prentice - out of touch, borderline scary stuff going on behind the scenes between stifling free speech at a forum while disparaging children publicly and flaunting with enacting the notwithstanding clause.

Edit - Apparently McAllister rakes in $15k/month on the provinces dime as Smith's Executive Director, and this is what we as a province are getting for it. A pricey attack dog showing the governments true colours to all.

[puffnstuff]

Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus

There are no longer classroom caps in Alberta thanks to the UCP so this maximum you speak of is not possible. Your experience is like this because you're either private or charter, or are just in an older, boomer aged community without a feeder.

Or they are in a different country

[Amethyst]

Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus

There are no longer classroom caps in Alberta thanks to the UCP so this maximum you speak of is not possible. Your experience is like this because you're either private or charter, or are just in an older, boomer aged community without a feeder.

Or, possibly, they're in Australia?

[Looch City]

This province is always broke when it comes to healthcare and education.

There's just no money anymore, we're in a recession don't you see!

[Hot_Flatus]

Originally Posted by Amethyst

Or, possibly, they're in Australia?

I must be in an early morning UCP educed haze. Missed that entirely.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus

I must be in an early morning UCP educed haze. Missed that entirely.

TBF, classroom size for size for your location is either zero or maybe one.

[indes]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

My daughter's grade 5 has like 23. My son in grade 10 has 30 or more in most of his classes. But I live in St.Albert which is considered a place that's got the reputation of being an exclusive white country club. The fact that it has good schools is why people like me bankrupt themselves to try and live here.

But I do hear stories from guys I know in Edmonton where the schools are overfilled. Yet they keep expanding the neighborhood but don't add any new schools. The day the school opens it's at capacity...yet the new subdivision is only half done.

Yup, in Sherwood Park they've opened one public elementary school in the last 21 years and it was immediately over capacity (obviously). It's the closest school to my house but we're zoned across town. I've bitched about it before because it pisses me off. The government also hasn't built an arena since 2000...constantly wonder what my taxes go towards since its not education, infrastructure or healthcare.

[Hot_Flatus]

The student who was disparaged last night has spoken out on reddit below. Very articulate and pointed reply that speaks extremely well about this situation and the state of education in Alberta.

https://www.reddit.com/r/alberta/com...on_kid_asking/

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by indes

Yup, in Sherwood Park they've opened one public elementary school in the last 21 years and it was immediately over capacity (obviously). It's the closest school to my house but we're zoned across town. I've bitched about it before because it pisses me off. The government also hasn't built an arena since 2000...constantly wonder what my taxes go towards since its not education, infrastructure or healthcare.

Turkish tylenol, war room, research centre on US-Canada relations, the world's worst opinion polls and surveys, carpet for Smith's office.

[Howie_16]

Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus

There are no longer classroom caps in Alberta thanks to the UCP so this maximum you speak of is not possible. Your experience is like this because you're either private or charter, or are just in an older, boomer aged community without a feeder.

I think FireGilbert might be from Australia.